2021年3月SAT北美考情回顾

2021年3月SAT考试北美场考情要点回顾

今天北美场启用一套新卷，且有加试。有的同学有是数学加试，有同学是阅读加试。根据官方政策，本次试卷是每年四套官方公开卷之一，出分后就会全卷公开，（但加试部分不会），大家耐心等待即可。下面为大家带来本次阅读部分的考情回忆。

阅读
小说
关于一个演员回忆自己早期的演戏生涯。开头一两段，narrator说了他拍戏时用的道具和设备很简陋什么的，全是在户外拍摄然后放一大堆canvas。小说里有个给予narrator很多帮助的前辈，因为那个人也是从theater转到movie，跟narrator很像，他告诉narrator要用眼神表达，而且只用表演给相机，不用假装有很多人在看。前辈叫Hanako，前辈和演员应该都是日本人，因为小说有一段写了那个前辈有一天对他用日语说了一些建议。那个前辈在结尾还提到了一个有很多粉丝的演员，然后评价说那个演员自己的内涵不够，还是narrator在演戏方面更好。
有道词汇题是说演员在convey her anguish，问convey的意思，选项有communicate/conduct/experience，应该选communicate。这道题是一道送分题，OG第1套题里就考过，原题如下：
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另一道词汇题，关于narrator用来形容拍摄用具的adjective，原文里用的词不记得了，选的是basic，选项好像还有ancient/original。
还有一对询证题是关于那个前辈在哪个方面对narrator的帮助最direct，选的是对career的帮助因为有similar career shift，对应证据是有一段那个前辈提到了他的similarexperience。

社科
是关于一个online news media对人的想法的影响

科学
给bumblebee做实验

历史
是Thomas Paul的speech，关于废奴，原文如下：
 
MR. PRESIDENT: 
I have often asked myself, what posteritywould think of the strange contest in which the abolitionists are engaged. Herewe meet, time after time, newspapers are printed and speeches delivered, to prove? what? Why, that a man is a man, and that he is the only human possessor ofhimself. But these propositions are self-evident; and self-evident propositions,we all know, though the most difficult to be proved, are the most easilyunderstood, because they need no proof. The mind sees their truth intuitively,without the aid of reasoning. The attempt to prove them, therefore, would beridiculous, were it not for the consideration of the amazing state of delusionand vassalage to which prejudice reduces the mind when unenlightened by reason. 
 
The history of every age shows the truth ofthis assertion. At one time, we see Galileo thrown into prison by theInquisition, because he had made some discoveries tending to confirm the Copernicansystem, and forced to purchase his liberty by retracting his opinions. Again,before the sacred page was punctuated, some of the Alexandrian fathers placed apunctuation mark in one of the chapters of St. John’s Gospel. Chrysostum,alarmed at this terrible innovation, denounced it as a heresy; and Epiphaniusdeclared it blasphemous, and the sin against the Holy Ghost. When, therefore,we see the control which prejudice, aided by circumstances and encouraged byself-interest, has in times past exercised over the human mind, and thetenacity with which it has held its deluded victims, stopping up the avenues ofimprovement, clipping the wings of genius, and retarding the progress of truth? when we see the minds whose energies have been crippled, and whose spheres ofaction have been curtailed by its influence ? when we see the tremendous power whichreformers have brought to bear against the prevailing sins of the ages in whichthey lived, the firm opposition they encountered, and the long and arduousstruggles which preceded a better state of things ? we are led, by analogicalreasoning, to believe, that the contest in which we are engaged is not anunnatural one ? that it is not so dissimilar in its character and measures toothers which have been carried triumphantly through ? that the modern championsof freedom do not savor so much of quixotism as their traducers haverepresented ? and that the unfortunate men, whose cause they have espoused,have as just a claim to humanity as their oppressors, and like them have beencreated a little lower than the angels. 
 
In all moral reforms, too, there is astriking similarity in the various passions, qualities and traits of charactercalled forth. The same zeal and boldness of the reformer ? the same caution,distrust and timidity of the conservative, wincing at this phrase, trembling atthat expression, and whining about ultraism ? the same headlong fury of therabble, who, for want of something better, would fain ‘Prove their doctrinesorthodox By mobocratic blows and knocks’ ?the same rapid speed of truth whenonce elicited by reason and argument ? and the same general results. 
 
How was it five years ago in regard to thequestion of slavery? A gloom hung over the moral atmosphere, which nothing seeminglycould dissipate, save a miracle from God himself. All saw it, but no one durstexpose his own breast to the pitiless peltings of the gathering storm. Thepulpit and the press, instead of being faithful to their trust, were thepanders to the general lust. But mind, like matter, must have its legitimatescope. How absurd was the attempt of the ancient king to chain the Hellespont! Andyet not more so than the attempt of modern republicans to bridle the human mind.There are always some spirits who will resist such unnatural domination. Andsuch a spirit was found in the father of American anti-slavery.  In that dark hour, he arose to cheer us on ourgloomy pathway. The shafts of criticism, and sarcasm, and denunciation, whichrang against his buckler, told only where he stood up unscathed, in his moraland intellectual might, and bearing down all opposition. The result is wellknown, nor does Mr. GARRISON need any eulogy from me.  
 
The task of the reformer is far from beingan agreeable one. The hidden springs which are to be touched by him, and setinto motion, are not discernible to common eyes; and, if they were, few wouldknow how to approach or dare to meddle with them. He scatters his truths amongthe body politic, and the effect is electrical. He is greeted at once with smilesand frowns, with blessing and cursing, wit eulogy and abuse. Now he is almoststifled with the caresses of devoted friends, and anon he is exposed to thefury of a blood-thirsty mob. But, if it is melancholy to see some run mad, wehave the gratification to behold others restored to their reason. Much maydepend upon accidental circumstances for the success of the reformer, but moredepends upon himself. In him are found the great qualities of the head andheart. For the burden of proof is upon him, and he is to answer cavils, refute sophistry,and prove his propositions, while slanderers are crucifying his reputation, andassassins are aiming deadly daggers at his heart. All moral reformations havebeen attended with more or less persecution; but the American abolitionistsstand pre-eminently distinguished in this respect. Not that those of theirranks, who have been imprisoned and murdered, can bear comparison numericallywith other reformers. But the light of religious toleration had not dawned uponthe Inquisition; and the dogma, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, is a newlydiscovered truth. But the Americans, with the moral and intellectual light ofthe nineteenth century, should have known better than to shoot down a man forhis faithful advocacy of those burning truths enunciated by their own greatapostle of democracy. They present the rare spectacle of a nation boasting ofequal rights, while a large part of the population are the most oppressed anddegraded beings that crawl on the face of the earth. If they have fled from thefire of tyranny in the old world, it is to light up a still more horrid one inthe new, whose lurid glare serves only to show more distinct-

科学
是一个双篇，关于银河系内一种天体dwarf（矮星）的数量之争。
文章一是2011年的实验，有人发现了Jupiter那么大的dwarf，之前好像是因为光线的传播所以看不到。因为这个发现科学家预计银河系dwarf的数量应该比planet的数量还多。文章二是几年后的实验，认为文章一的观点是错的。Planet应该还是比dwarf多。