8月北美SAT考试已经结束了，这场考试对早申十分重要，大部分同学反映这次考试题目比较简单，有望拿到高分。下面上考情。

　　加试

　　这次考试中，选择不考作文的同学碰到了加试。加试时长20分钟，从阅读、语法、数学的三种题型中选择一种，其中，大部分同学遇到的数学部分，都是允许使用计算器的。

　　阅读

　　阅读整体难度一般，但行号题有变少趋势，比如第一篇除了询证和词汇题之外其他细节题几乎全是靠关键字定位，其他部分的细节题即使有行号，也问的比较细，需要不断对比找出答案。这次8月阅读部分对大家的阅读能力和把握关键位置的能力有更高要求。这也很可能是接下来新SAT阅读的趋势，在接下来的复习中，大家要注意训练把握关键位置的能力。

　　历史双篇依旧是相对难度较高的一篇，一直建议阅读能力不是特别强，或者不是要追求特别高分的把双篇放在最后做;科学三篇难度从易到难排列，重点句还是那些经典位置，但是整体还是问得细，题目和选项文字长，与近期真题难度接近。

　　文章顺序为：文学作品-历史文献(对比文章)-自然科学-社会科学-自然科学。下面依次来看。

　　第一篇：文学作品

　　文章来源：Paul Laurence Dunbar的“The Sport of the Gods”

　　内容简介：写Kitty觉得Martin对大家非常严厉，她觉得十分愤怒和不公平，但还是会服从他的instructions。在她唱歌的过程中十分紧张，唱到一半的时候Martin笑了，她就觉得自己唱得肯定非常差，后来她的朋友告诉她其实她唱得很不错。Martin的笑也是对她的肯定。

　　文章节选：

　　"Now, now," he would shout, "theleft foot on that beat. Bah, bah, stop! You walk like a lot of tin soldiers.Are your joints rusty? Do you want oil? Look here, Taylor, if I did n't knowyou, I 'd take you for a truck. Pick up your feet, open your mouths, and move,move, move! Oh!" and he would drop his head in despair. "And to thinkthat I 've got to do something with these things in two weeks--two weeks!"Then he would turn to them again with a sudden reaccession of eagerness."Now, at it again, at it again! Hold that note, hold it! Now whirl, and onthe left foot. Stop that music, stop it! Miss Coster, you'll learn that step inabout a thousand years, and I 've got nine hundred and ninety-nine years andfifty weeks less time than that to spare. Come here and try that step with me.Don't be afraid to move. Step like a chicken on a hot griddle!" And someblushing girl would come forward and go through the step alone before all therest.

　　第二篇：历史文献(对比文章)

　　文章来源：Who Should be Allowed to Vote?

　　Passage 1作者：James Kent

　　Passage 2作者：David Buel

　　内容简介：两篇文章都是关于Constitution的一个要求：只有拥有财产的男性才能够获得选举权。Passage 1的观点表示赞同，主题句出现在全文首句：The tendency of uninversal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of porperty, and the principles of liberty. Passage 2则表示了反对的观点，主题句出现在第二段首句：I contend, that by the ture principle of our government, porperty, as such, is not the basis of representation.

　　第三篇：自然科学

　　文章来源：Memory in Plants

　　文章作者：P.H.

　　内容简介：植物是否具备记忆力?研究者观察含羞草为例子，测试从高处丢下来，观察叶子是否会收拢。实验结果表明含羞草能够通过记忆学会不收了叶子作为防御措施。文章还描述了两种不同的实验，以表明不同的含羞草叶子打开的程度不一样，另外在遇到其他威胁的时候，含羞草还是有相应的反应的。

　　文章节选：

　　More than a century ago Bengali polymath SirJagadish Chandra Bose posited that plants could feel, learn and remember, andmore recent studies have confirmed they can store and recall biological data.But research by Monica Gagliano of the University of Western Australia (UWA)and three fellow scientists goes much further. This study, published inOecologia, offers proof that plants not only learn from experience, butremember what they have learned over relatively long periods.

　　第四篇：社会科学

　　文章来源：Why so cynical

　　文章作者：Detief Fetchenhauer and David Dunning

　　内容简介：研究人与人之间的信任，安排了两组人做实验。一方选择另外一方作为自己信任的人，把自己手上的前交给对方。被选择信任的人得到交给他的钱后，可以选择将钱变多，分一半给选择自己的人或者自己独吞。实验表明，被选择的人往往会感激选择自己的人，把钱分一半给对方。但是选择的人往往不相信自己选的人会给自己钱。(人与人之间的信任是如何崩塌的)

　　文章节选：

　　They under estimate how often others respond generously to requests for help (Flynn& Lake, 2008) and overestimate how much others’ attitudes and actions aredriven by selfish concerns (Miller, 1999). To be sure, there is contrary evidence showing that people can be roughly realistic in anticipating the altruism of others (Balcetis & Dunning, 2008; Balcetis, Dunning, &Miller, 2008; Epley & Dunning, 2000, 2006), but an increasing body ofevidence suggests that when people are contemplating whether they should relyon the kindness of strangers, they suspect those strangers will prove more selfish than actually is the case.

　　第五篇：自然科学

　　文章来源：The deadly dynamics of landsilde

　　文章作者：Sigma Xi

　　内容简介：讲述的是一块会滑动的石头，石头为什么会滑动呢?文章内给出了两个解释：一个解释是说空气使得这块石头滑动了，但是后面又否定了。第二个解释是说因为是水，并且认为这个解释的可能性更大。

　　文章节选：

　　Approximately 17,000 years ago, a volume of rock equal to a cube about a half-mile on a sideroared out of a steep canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California. It originated 1,500 feet above the canyon bottom. Rocks in theslide, already fractured at the start of the event, shattered on impact withthe canyon bottom, forming intricate three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Whenthis event, known as the Blackhawk slide, exited from the canyon, it ran outacross a nearly flat valley floor for five miles. Amazingly, the pieces of the jigsaw puzzles stayed together as the slide zoomed along at nearly 75 miles an hour.

　　语法

　　这次考试难度偏容易，基础语法点考察的题目偏多，而涉及文章阅读部分的考察题目较少，主要把语法的基础点都掌握好，拿到高分甚至满分不是难事。

　　数学

　　数学题目也偏容易，大家只要做到细心即可。目前反映“题目中有个别不确定”的同学，基本都是碰到了生词。

　　写作

　　作文部分的阅读难度不高，相对好写。

　　文章选自：the wall street journal

　　作者：Peter Downs。

　　文章题目：Can't find skilled workers? Start an apprentice program

　　原文链接：http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24016

　　文章内容：

　　1 One key element to a competitive workforce almost entirely overlooked in the U.S. is apprenticeships. These days, American businesses typically want someone else—trade schools, community colleges, universities or even the federal government—to train their future employees. If potential future job seekers haven't been provided with the training they need, many businesses expect job seekers to take all the responsibility on themselves, often taking on serious debt without any guarantee of future employment.

　　2 Worse, in the face of greater competition, many American employers are slashing training budgets and running employment software that rejects every applicant who doesn't already have the perfect combination of training and experience to perform the job on day one. Then employers lament that job applicants don't already know how to do the jobs that they want them to do. So shortsighted is this attitude that some construction companies that don't support apprenticeship programs complain that companies that do have such programs aren't training enough new workers. Yes, you read that right.

　　3 This sense of entitlement contrasts sharply with attitudes in some of the world's most competitive countries, where businesses are highly involved in preparing future workers through apprenticeships. In Switzerland, 70% of young people age 15-19 apprentice in hundreds of occupations, including baking, banking, health care, retail trade and clerical careers. In Germany, 65% of youth are in apprenticeships; in Austria 55%. All three countries have youth unemployment rates less than half of America's 16%.

　　4 Last year, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Spain all asked Germany to help them set up similar systems. In 1997, Britain introduced a program called Modern Apprenticeships, based on the German model, and enrollment has increased every year. It now stands at 858,900. In 2012, the U.K. added apprenticeship programs for commercial pilots, lawyers, engineers and accountants that are considered the equivalent of a college education.

　　5 The U.S. is headed in the opposite direction. The number of apprenticeship programs has fallen by one-third in the last decade. With only 330,578 registered apprentices in 2013, the U.S. had less than 40% of the number in Britain, a country one-fifth as populous.

　　6 There are glimmers of hope that the U.S.—or at least some savvy industries—might be starting to embrace apprenticeship. In St. Louis, technology entrepreneur Jim McKelvey convinced several large employers last year—including Enterprise, Monsanto and Rawlings —that it doesn't take a college education to become good at computer programming. What it takes is working with an experienced programmer.

　　7 These employers joined with Mr. McKelvey to set up what is essentially an apprenticeship program called LaunchCode. The program takes people with basic programming skills, pays them $15 an hour, and pairs them with experienced programmers for two years to give them the training to secure jobs as coders.

　　8 Some employers think apprenticeships could also work in other high-tech, high-growth industries. In recent years, the U.S. Office for Apprenticeships has registered new apprenticeship programs in information technology, health care, biotechnology and geospatial technology.

　　9 There is evidence that such apprenticeships can do more than just train young people for future careers: They can also improve student academic performance. In the few U.S. school districts that have offered apprenticeships, high-school juniors and seniors who have been apprentices have improved in the classroom.

　　10 In the Bayless School District in suburban St. Louis, for example, students who entered the district's Middle Apprenticeship Program with the Carpenters' Union had better attendance than before entering the program. The mean grade point average for these students was 1.7 at the end of their sophomore year, before they entered the apprenticeship program. By senior year, it was 3.13. They graduated with better attendance and better grades than did a group of similar students who weren't in the program.

　　11 To the extent that the American business community is involved in education reform, they are typically investing in faddish reforms such as banning tenure, that, even if passed, would do little to ensure the competitiveness of the nation's workforce. If this same money and effort went into pushing for a two-track education system—college or apprenticeship—it would do far more to produce students prepared to compete in the 21st-century economy.