2016年5月7日是新SAT亚洲首考,青岛大学SAT中心安排了高志龙老师,王爱颖老师以及孔姗姗老师三位老师带领数十位考生在香港参加考试。开考前3天,被CB视为大龄考生的三位老师均被从亚博转移到了位于九龙塘附近的马里诺教会学校, 考试结束以后,三位老师针对这次考试所体现出来的特征进行了分析, 同时在亚博主考场的邓老师也为我们大量采访了在亚博参加完考试之后的各地考生, 根据三位老师和考生们的考试经历和感受, 整理了下面的2016年5月7日亚洲新SAT首考的考情分析, 希望通过第一手的考试经验和专业独到的见解, 让大家对此次新SAT亚洲首考指点迷津。
三位老师会从考务管理、阅读、语法、数学,、写作五个部分进行详尽描述5月7日的这次考试, 完整呈现本次考试的全流程, 帮助大家更好地把握新SAT考试:
第一部分: 考务变化
新SAT变革为四个部分以后,在监考程序上出现了两点大的变化,第一个是考场外围增加了SATwith Essay 单列名单,并且为了考场管理的便利,选考Essay的考生基本都在一起,第四部分数学结束以后没有考Essay的考生拿考官发的离场证明离开考场;第二个变化是阅读答题过程中主考官分别阅读开始后的20分钟和结束前5分钟,两次提醒考生时间,这在老SAT时代是没有的。
第二部分: 阅读部分
1考生感受:
阅读部分总体感觉适中, 和OG官方样题文章平均难度持平, 出题的类型在OG所出的题目范围内, 大家比较关注的图表题和循证题两种新题型均有出现, 题目数量正常.
2. 文章回忆:
第一篇: 小说题材, 讲的是一个工人,工作很努力,跟着老板工作多年,迫于生活压力,想跟老板要一部摩托车,然后用了各种心理战术,老板终于给他买了他想要的东西,老板综合考虑后答应了他的请求,文章选自Nawabdin Electricain
题材来源:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/27/nawabdin-electrician
第二篇: 社科文章, 描述public news在当今遇到的挑战,主题是新闻在当代社会的意义。传统的新闻主要是加入了记者或专家的观点,而现代新闻更侧重还原所有信息,还原到raw material 本身,让读者自己下定论
第三篇: 科学, 难度中等, 讲述针对某一植物进行的实验, 检测pollinator和bettles是否会由于植物特性(frangrance增加)改变而产生趋性的改变
第四篇: 史政, 双篇对比阅读, 难度较OG同类文章低, 谈论人们是否应该完全服从法律, 即使法律有失公允. 第一篇选自林肯的演讲, 第二篇选自梭罗
第五篇: 科学, 难度中等, 讲述solar panel前景较好, 但当前制造过程中遇到的最大问题为成本较高, 文章继而展开几方面现有降低成本的手段和产品
第三部分:语法部分
语法考试,时间相对适中,比阅读时间充裕一点,但是同样也需要马不停蹄的做完并且迅速涂卡,监考老师的last five minutes的提醒总是来的那么快。语法部分整体难度略低于可汗学院给出的48篇语法练习,所以各位小朋友,可汗学院的题目刷起来!切记效率和准确率都重要,二者都不可抛。所以做题的时候可不能边做边天马行空。考试内容方面--不出意外的几个考点各有涉及:时态,平行结构,run-on sentence ,连词考察,用词重复等。出题人可以说非常仁慈对于生僻词考察非常少,当然在阅读中生僻词的考察也很少,但是选项之间差别也不是太大,这一点也是够唬人的。词组固定搭配方面相应的考了几个,例如advocate的用法。只是个别题目不能让你一眼确定答案,或者小纠结一下,这样的时候不能太多停留,因为纠结半天不确定还是不确定,反而逗留久了,占用别的题目时间。跟文章有关的添加transition sentence,某个句子delete or keep 或者句子位置也都没有太为难。前后线索也比较明朗,还是那句话,题目思路再明朗也是需要时间的,把握好时间,不至于最后手忙脚乱。本次考题之后会放出来,各位同学可以自己再结合题目对相应的语法考点研究一下,总结很重要。
第四部分:数学部分
题目相对比较简单,也是时间最为充裕的部分,只是题干阅读长度增加,看起来比较有压迫感,实际上也只是看起来比较有压迫感而已,只要把考点记牢,多去熟悉相应的题型也是没有问题的。
第五部分:写作部分
Essay部分的阅读文章选自Christopher Hitchens的一篇社论文章——“The Lovely Stones”, 文章最早发表于2009年的vanityfair.com。文章主旨是英国应该把曾经低价买来的帕特农神殿的珍贵的雕塑还给希腊。文章难度较高,有不少专业词汇,50分钟的时间来读懂文章并写够字数对很多考生是个不小的挑战,我们这些“老人考生”也不例外,很多人写了不到2面纸(写作答题纸有4面)。孔老师自己写了不到2页半,勉强写完第三个主题段,没有时间来结尾。经验是一定要在答题纸的第一页打好提纲(写作第一页答题纸是用来planning的),并且快速动笔,不要太在乎美观,整齐就好,免得像我一样刚开始不紧不慢好好写字,后来赶时间字就潦草很多,整篇文章显得不均匀。
关于这篇文章中的修辞分析,如果能读懂文章的话,其实是不难分析的:
Evidence方面:作者详细地陈述了与帕特农神殿相关的历史事实,其中用到一些数据,以较专业的角度帮助读者了解相关背景知识,以便更好地理解自己的观点。
Reasoning方面:文章于开头引用了著名古典主义者的名言,表明帕特农神殿的艺术地位。之后陈述了大量关于帕特农神殿雕塑的历史事实,指明了期多次受破坏的悲惨下场。之后指出希腊已经在保护这些艺术珍品方面做了努力,如修建博物馆,并且表示要把希腊留存的雕塑和英国曾经低价买来的一半雕塑重新reunite在一起。来文章段落较大,比较容易分析逻辑结构。
Stylistic and Persuasive elements方面:作者用词比较专业,在表现对雕塑的现状堪忧时用了一些很明显的negative words,并且appeal to readers’ emotion,引发读者对雕塑的关注和担忧。
写作文章原文如下:(考试文章对原文作了大量删减)
The great classicist A. W. Lawrence (illegitimate younger brother of the even more famously illegitimate T.E. “of Arabia”) once remarked of the Parthenon that it is “the one building in the world which may be assessed as absolutely right.” ……
The damage done by the ages to the building, and by past empires and occupations, cannot all be put right. But there is one desecration and dilapidation that can at least be partially undone. Early in the 19th century, Britain’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Lord Elgin, sent a wrecking crew to the Turkish-occupied territory of Greece, where it sawed off approximately half of the adornment of the Parthenon and carried it away. As with all things Greek, there were three elements to this, the most lavish and beautiful sculptural treasury in human history. Under the direction of the artistic genius Phidias, the temple had two massive pediments decorated with the figures of Pallas Athena, Poseidon, and the gods of the sun and the moon. It then had a series of 92 high-relief panels, or metopes, depicting a succession of mythical and historical battles. The most intricate element was the frieze, carved in bas-relief, which showed the gods, humans, and animals that made up the annual Pan-Athens procession: there were 192 equestrian warriors and auxiliaries featured, which happens to be the exact number of the city’s heroes who fell at the Battle of Marathon. Experts differ on precisely what story is being told here, but the frieze was quite clearly carved as a continuous narrative.
Ever since Lord Byron wrote his excoriating attacks on Elgin’s colonial looting, first in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) and then in The Curse of Minerva (1815), there has been a bitter argument about the legitimacy of the British Museum’s deal. I’ve written a whole book about this controversy and won’t oppress you with all the details, but would just make this one point. If the Mona Lisa had been sawed in two during the Napoleonic Wars and the separated halves had been acquired by different museums in, say, St. Petersburg and Lisbon, would there not be a general wish to see what they might look like if re-united? If you think my analogy is overdrawn, consider this: the body of the goddess Iris is at present in London, while her head is in Athens. The front part of the torso of Poseidon is in London, and the rear part is in Athens. And so on. This is grotesque.
It is unfortunately true that the city allowed itself to become very dirty and polluted in the 20th century, and as a result the remaining sculptures and statues on the Parthenon were nastily eroded by “acid rain.” And it’s also true that the museum built on the Acropolis in the 19th century, a trifling place of a mere 1,450 square meters, was pathetically unsuited to the task of housing or displaying the work of Phidias. But gradually and now impressively, the Greeks have been living up to their responsibilities. Beginning in 1992, the endangered marbles were removed from the temple, given careful cleaning with ultraviolet and infra-red lasers, and placed in a climate-controlled interior. Alas, they can never all be repositioned on the Parthenon itself, because, though the atmospheric pollution is now better controlled, Lord Elgin’s goons succeeded in smashing many of the entablatures that held the sculptures in place. That leaves us with the next-best thing, which turns out to be rather better than one had hoped.
About a thousand feet southeast of the temple, the astonishing new Acropolis Museum will open on June 20. With 10 times the space of the old repository, it will be able to display all the marvels that go with the temples on top of the hill. Most important, it will be able to show, for the first time in centuries, how the Parthenon sculptures looked to the citizens of old.
The British may continue in their constipated fashion to cling to what they have so crudely amputated, ……The Acropolis Museum has hit on the happy idea of exhibiting, for as long as following that precedent is too much to hope for, its own original sculptures with the London-held pieces represented by beautifully copied casts. …… it creates a natural thirst to see the actual re-assembly completed. So, far from emptying or weakening a museum, this controversy has instead created another one, which is destined to be among Europe’s finest galleries. And one day, surely, there will be an agreement to do the right thing by the world’s most “right” structure.