【跟着沪江走，高分在招手】·【SAT备考·阅读篇】
前几篇文章讲的都是根据一篇文章回答问题，今天我们来看一下如何根据两篇文章回答问题。
SAT的阅读有时会给出两篇文章，也就是一组对比文章，问题是有关这两篇文章的。在两篇文章之前，会给出相关信息。
大家要先阅读信息，再读文章。这些信息会包括文章背景、作者、目的等信息。两篇文章会有所不同，写作意图也不同。
读完这些信息后，再去浏览问题，不要先读文章，因为文章可能会很长。问题的顺序与文章的顺序基本相同，意味着第一篇文章的问题后才是第二篇文章的问题。
但是，在第二篇文章的问题后，会出现一些对比、比较两篇文章的分析和评价性问题。
总的来说，第一篇文章会有一个中心支持观点，而第二篇文章的观点会与之不同。但有时也会遇到两篇主题相似或完全不同的文章。
看到比较性问题，首先要做的就是总结两篇文章大意。例如，你可能会总结出：
Passage 1: Believes that religion is the source of major conflicts in the world
Passage 2: Discusses the benefits of sprituality and religious life
下面，我们就来看一下问题：
1. "How would the author of passage 2 likely respond to the author of passage 1 in his claim that "religion was the source of wars in the 17th century?"
这一类型的问题基于对文章的推断。 在文章中找不到直接的答案。大家应根据第二篇文章坐着的态度选出正确答案。例如，第二篇文章作者的态度是 "pro-religion"，可能就会假设作者反对第一篇文章的观点。
2. "Which of the following is a view expressed by both passages?"
这是SAT考试中比较典型的问题。要求考生比较这两篇文章，并找出共同点。因此大家就要找出两篇文章中作者都同意的观点。这不是推理性问题，因此不要根据自己的理解推断作者的想法，要根据文章得出答案。
3. "Which of the following is a difference between passage one and two?"
这是典型的对比问题，找出两篇文章主要的不同点。这也是从文章中得出答案。
1. The crew of the air balloon ____ the sand bags to help the balloon rise over the hill.
A. capsized B. jettisoned C. salvaged
D. augmented E. enumerated
2. We were not fooled by his ____ arguments; his plan was obviously ____ .
A. cogent - brilliant B. hackneyed - banal C. convoluted - labyrinthine
D. specious - untenable E. lucid - intelligible
3. Hawkins is ____ in his field; no other contemporary scientist commands the same respect.
A. disparaged B. ignominious C. obsolete
D. anachronistic E. preeminent
4. The model paraded in front of the celebrities with ____ ; it was impossible to tell that this was her first assignment.
A. panache B. opprobrium C. shame
D. trepidation E. terror
5. The term lead pencil is a ____ ; pencils are filled with graphite not lead.
A. misnomer B. misdemeanor C. peccadillo
D. euphemism E. metaphor
6. The ____ weather forced us to stay indoors.
A. enticing B. glorious C. restorative
D. inclement E. congenial
7. It will be hard to ____ Leonid now that you have so ____ him.
A. pacify - soothed B. mollify - incensed C. antagonize - irritated
D. anger - ruffled E. subdue - subjugated
8. The lectures on quantum physics were invariably ____ ; the lecturer ____ his ill-prepared material in a manner guaranteed to send even the most ardent student to sleep.
A. stimulating - delivered B. pedestrian - enthused about C. soporific - droned
D. scintillating - intoned E. arcane - marshaled
9. Edward was understandably upset that he had lost the position, but he was ____ by the conviction that he had done nothing to ____ the dismissal.
A. consoled - merit B. warmed - avoid C. comforted - mar
D. miffed - delay E. saddened - earn
10. Elinor ____ to counteract her negative feelings, but only succeeded in ____ them.
A. tried - allaying B. hoped - mitigating C. desired - ameliorating
D. hesitated - deprecating E. endeavoured - intensifying
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