2012年12月1日SAT考试(亚洲)部分试题回忆

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Sentence Completions
1. Trust
2. Alter .. Environment
3. Metaphor
4. Parallel .. Disparity
5. Zealous .. Ameliorate
6. Copious .. Acerbic
7. Solicitous
8. Noted .. Discrimination

1. Adhere .. authenticity
2. Loquacious
3. Thrive .. Antediluvian
4. Misplaced .. unsavory
5. Unique

1. Elite .. Function
2. Discern
3. Provisional
4. Virtuosity
5. Precluded
6. Wrongdoing .. Chicanery

Bioluminescence short passage
1. Foolish because hiding in the dark with a light is paradoxical
2. passage showed ways bioluminescence could be beneficial to sea creatures

Packaging Food
1. Industry was eager to continue using its new technologies
2. Foods were “absurd”

Comic Strips
1. passage 2 elaborated on passage 1
2. author of passage 1 talked about his experiences
3. author of passage 2 wanted comics to be an accepted art
4. comics used as an educational resource

Artistic Elephants (Long Double)
1. personal anecdote/general overview
2. sori had drawn them herself/himself
3. authors agree that elephants deliberately paint
4. “right” means “direct”
5. Ruby can’t be used for experiment because he/she learned to paint in captivity
6. substance is “reality”
7. quote: nuance and complex
8. numerous and unrecorded* (I chose uninformed)
9. handler in passage 1 regards the drawings as artistic
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Uncle’s book
1. solemn
2. mutual acquaintance
3. relief
4. overjoyed
5. book held her captive
6. composed
7. book was reliable escape from life’s chaos
8. “quarelling friends” explained father’s attitude
9. passage in general showed past experiences
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Hiking/Artifact
1. significance of personal experience
2. ball in the undergrowth
3. to show how old the object was
4. map was misleading (no water)
5. imaginative speculation*
6. “settle” means rest*
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Poetry:
1. “famous” is ironical
2. statistical evidence was misleading
3. paradoxical situation
4. bemoaning a trend
5. students referred to specialization of poetry
6. principal audience
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[anti-both]