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1、智 课 网 S A T 备 考 资 料智课教育独家解读SAT阅读改革-智课教育出国考试SAT考试是检测学生基本学术能力的考试，那么面对2016年SAT改 革内容我们该怎样应对，智课教育名师通过举例为大家独家解读SAT阅 读改革，供大家参考。 2016年SAT改革已经离大家越来越近了，我们出来要理解形式上的 改变，还要细致研究一下题型上的变动，下面通过举例智课教育独家解 读SAT阅读改革帮助大家了解SAT阅读题目的内容上的变动，希望大家 多多关注。 Edith Wharton/Ethan From背景介绍： Ethan和Zeena是一对恩爱的夫妻。由于Zenna操劳过度，身体总 是病恹恹的。眼看
2、着Zeena的身体一天不如一天，还要操持家务，Etha n觉得非常心疼，他们决定找一个帮佣来帮助Zeena，顺便也可以照顾 一下Zeena的病体。最终他们雇了一位年轻漂亮的女孩Mattie Silver来 他们家里帮忙。这个女孩总是精力充沛，活泼外向。渐渐的，这样有活 力的女孩引起了Ethan的主意，他们两人无法自拔的坠入了爱河。第一段：Ethan第一次看见Mattie时就喜欢上了她，觉得她像是一 束光给自己冷清的生活带来活力 (But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was
3、 like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth. The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her) 第二段：Ethan觉得自己对自然美景有一种常人无法理解的感伤情 绪(He did not even know whether anyone else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privile ge.)而当他和Mattie在
4、一起时，他觉得终于有人能够跟他心灵相通，做 他的知己(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.) 第三段，Ethan看到社交场合的Mattie，才意识到他原本以为Matti e只有跟他在一起时才会流露的感情和动作，其实并非他独有(The face s
5、he lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him,always looked like a window that has caught the sunset.)，而自己居然以为她真的对自己无聊的谈话感兴趣。 This passage is adapted from Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, originally published in 1911. Mattie Silver is Ethans household employee. 这篇文章节选自Edith Wharton/Ethan
6、From发表于1911年，Mattie Silver 是这个家里的帮佣。 Mattie Silver had lived under Ethans 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 hi
7、s 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 r
8、eflected, looking over her slight person: “She dont look much on housework, but she aint a fretter, anyhow.” But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth. The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had
9、 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 sweetn
10、ess 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 ha
11、d remained in him as a silent ache, veiling withsadness 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: th
12、at at his side, living under his roof and eating his bread, was a creature to whom he could say: “Thats Orion down yonder; the big fellow to the right is Aldebaran, and the bunch of little oneslike bees swarmingtheyre the Pleiades.” or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting
13、 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 Matties wonder at what he taught was not the least part of hispleasure. And there were other sensations, less definable but m
14、ore 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 seem
15、ed 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 wondere
16、d 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 i
