大家会发现新版SAT阅读包含的阅读文本和现版SAT阅读中的文本多少有些不同。新版SAT文章长度在500字或以上，而现版的SAT阅读文章只有两三句句子那么长。新版SAT阅读中的文学类文章要比现版SAT中的更密集一些；目前为止这些文章貌似仅是从小说或者短篇故事中摘取。新版SAT中的科学以及社会研究类文章将结合各类图表传递信息，而现版SAT中的同类文章只是纯文字无图表。另外，每个新版SAT阅读测试中至少有一篇文章是诸如演讲或者书信这类的第一手文献阅读，而现版SAT中所有文章均摘自二次文献。
如何针对新版SAT阅读的新变化进行准备?以下是为新版SAT阅读做好准备，推荐的阅读清单：
“At the Dam” by Joan Didion
“On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill
“Two Ways of Seeing a River” by Mark Twain
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
“Flight” by Doris Lessing
Robert Kennedy’s 1966 speech in South Africa
Tony Blair’s 2002 speech at the George H.W. Bush Presi dential Library
The New Yorker
The Economist
The Atlantic
Harper’s
The Nation
Scientific American
Smithsonian
The Best American Essays of the Century edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History edited by William Safire
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
以上就是针对新版SAT阅读的推荐书单，大家可以看起来啦！
