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【新SAT阅读】实例解析文学类小说的答题方法

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摘要:小编今天为大家新SAT文学类小说解题方法,希望对考新SAT的考生们有所帮助。

【新SAT阅读】实例解析文学类小说的答题方法图1

首先我们来看一下新SAT中的文学性小说题目:

This passage adapted from Edith Wharton, EthanFrome, originally published in 1911. Mattie Silver is Ethan’s household employee.

Mattie Silver had lived under Ethan’s roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her; but no moments in her company were comparable to those when, her arm in his, and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride, they walked back through the night to the farm. He had taken to the girl from the first day, when he had driven over to the Flats to meet her, and she had smiled and waved to him from the train, crying out, “You must be Ethan!” as she jumped down with her bundles, housework while he reflected, looking over her slight person: “She don't look much on housework, but she ain’t afretter, anyhow.” But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of afire on a cold hearth. The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her. She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell her things, and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will.

It was during their night walks back to the farm that he felt most intensely the sweetness of this communion. He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty. His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion. But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache,veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it. He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege. Then he learned that one other spirit had trembled with the same touch of wonder: that at his side, living under his roof and eating his bread, was a creature to whom he could say: “That’s Orion down yonder; the big fellow to the right is Aldebaran, and the bunch of little ones—like bees swarming—they’re the Pleiades...” or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time. The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie’s wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure. And there were other sensations, less definable but more exquisite, which drew them together with a shock of silent joy: the cold red of sunset behind winter hills, the flight of cloud-flocks over slopes of golden stubble, or the intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow.When she said to him once: “It looks just as if it was painted!” it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret soul

As he stood in the darkness outside the church these memories came back with the poignancy of vanished things.Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her. To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference. The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset. He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatuity, he had thought she kept for him: a way of throwing her head back when she was amused, as if to taste her laugh before she let it out, and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.

这篇文章选择美国女作家Edith Wharton(伊迪丝·华顿)的Ethan Frome。Ethan Frome锋锐刻画了19世纪单纯的新英格兰村居民的生活。主人公Ethan Frome是一个三十多岁的用现代话讲的闷骚男,有一个成天抱怨的、有些病态的年仅二十八岁的妻子。平淡的生活被女主人公的表妹mattie的到来而打破。来帮工做些家务她像一股新鲜的血液注进他的生活。于是小说开始描述Ethan对于这位年轻姑娘的各种臆想。这一段节选描述了Ethan和女主人公的表妹mattie的情感纠葛。

【新SAT阅读】实例解析文学类小说的答题方法图2

1.Over the course of the passage, the main focus of the narrative shifts from the

(a) reservations a character has about a person he has just met to a growing appreciation that character has of the person’s worth.

(b)ambivalence a character feels about his sensitive nature to the character's recognition of the advantages of having profound emotions.

(c)intensity of feeling a character has for another person to the character’s concern that that intensity is not reciprocated.

(d)value a character attaches to the wonders of the natural world to are jection of that sort of beauty in favor of human artistry.

2. In the context of the passage, the author’s use of the phrase “ her light step flying to keep time with his long stride (line 4) is primarily meant to convey the idea that

(a) Ethan and Mattie share a powerful enthusiasm.

(b) Mattie strives to match the speed at which Ethan works.

(c) Mattie and Ethan playfully compete with each other.

(d) Ethan walks at a pace that frustrates Mattie.

3. The description in the first paragraph indicates that what Ethan valuesmost about Mattie is her

(a) fitness for farm labor.

(b) vivacious youth.

(c) receptive nature.

(d) freedom from worry.

4. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

(a) Lines 1–5 (“Mattie...farm”)

(b) Lines 5–10 (“He had...anyhow”)

(c) Lines 10–11 (“But it...hearth”)

(d) Lines 12–15 (“She had...will”)

5.the author includes the descriptions of the sunset, the clouds, and the hemlock shadows(line 34-36) primarily to

(a) suggest the peacefulness of the natural world.

(b) emphasize the acuteness of two characters’ sensations.

(c) foreshadow the declining fortunes of two characters.

(d) offer a sense of how fleeting time can be.

对于这类的Literature Fiction(文学性小说)文章阅读,我们应该怎样备考呢?

保留的 literature 部分放在了新 SAT 阅读的第一篇。考查范围仍然是小说,短故事 , 还有人物传记(非重点)。其篇章来源主要为近 40 年的 minority fiction(少数族裔小说)和 19th and early 20th century classic novels(经典小说),以及新 SAT 将增加考查的近几十年的美国本土作家的小说作品等。

小说部分整体难度稍有增加,不排除选材方面会继续增加难度,出现意识流等作品。基本保留了主旨题、词汇题、目的题、细节题等。行号定位较现行 SAT 减少,全文篇章相关题型等中国学生不太擅长的题型增多。更加大了对文章快速理解、把握与做题的难度。

建议:考试需加强作品主旨、态度、功能、写作目的、写作意图以及结构上的理解与训练,并加大阅读量、提高词汇储备。小说阅读是美国语文教学的重点。小说讲述的是错综复杂的人们之间的情感交隔,小说中有丰富的生活场景、故事情节和人物关系,小说中还有意境和思想内涵,需要能够挖掘出来。短短的十几分钟读一篇文章,还要把题目做对,需要语言功底,这种功底是平时多阅读训练出来的,对小说的表达方式、思维习惯是学生们长时间积累起来的。

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