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SAT Practice Test 17 Passage1
Reading Test
Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage.
This passage is adapted from MacDonald Harris,
The Balloonist. ©2011 by The Estate of Donald Heiney.
During the summer of 1897, the narrator of this story, a
fictional Swedish scientist, has set out for the North Pole
in a hydrogen-powered balloon.
My emotions are complicated and not
readily verifiable. I feel a vast yearning that is
simultaneously a pleasure and a pain. I am certain
of the consummation of this yearning, but I don’t
know yet what form it will take, since I do not
understand quite what that yearning desires.
For the first time there is borne in upon me the full
truth of what I myself said to the doctor only an hour
ago: that my motives in this undertaking are not
entirely clear. For years, for a lifetime, the machinery
of my destiny has worked in secret to prepare for this
moment; its clockwork has moved exactly toward
this time and place and no other. Rising slowly from
the earth that bore me and gave me sustenance, I am
carried helplessly toward an uninhabited and hostile,
or at best indifferent, part of the earth, littered with
the bones of explorers and the wrecks of ships, frozen
supply caches, messages scrawled with chilled fingers
and hidden in cairns that no eye will ever see.
Nobody has succeeded in this thing, and many have
died. Yet in freely willing this enterprise, in choosing
this moment and no other when the south wind
will carry me exactly northward at a velocity of
eight knots, I have converted the machinery of my
will. What I don’t understand is why I
am so intent on going to this particular place. Who
wants the North Pole! What good is it! Can you eat
it? Will it carry you from Gothenburg to Malmö like
a railway? The Danish ministers have declared from
their pulpits that participation in polar expeditions is
beneficial to the soul’s eternal well-being, or so I read
in a newspaper. It isn’t clear how this doctrine is to
be interpreted, except that the Pole is something
difficult or impossible to attain which must
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nevertheless be sought for, because man is
condemned to seek out and know everything
whether or not the knowledge gives him pleasure. In
short, it is the same unthinking lust for knowledge
that drove our First Parents out of the garden.
And suppose you were to find it in spite of all, this
wonderful place that everybody is so anxious to stand
on! What would you find? Exactly nothing.
A point precisely identical to all the others in a
completely featureless wasteland stretching around it
for hundreds of miles. It is an abstraction, a
mathematical fiction. No one but a Swedish madman
could take the slightest interest in it. Here I am. The
wind is still from the south, bearing us steadily
northward at the speed of a trotting dog. Behind us,
perhaps forever, lie the Cities of Men with their
teacups and their brass bedsteads. I am going forth of
my own volition to join the ghosts of Bering and
poor Franklin, of frozen De Long and his men.
What I am on the brink of knowing, I now see, is not
an ephemeral mathematical spot but myself. The
doctor was right, even though I dislike him.
Fundamentally I am a dangerous madman, and what
I do is both a challenge to my egotism and a
surrender to it.
1.Over the course of the passage, the narrator’s attitude shifts from
A) fear about the expedition to excitement about it.
B) doubt about his abilities to confidence in them.
C) uncertainty of his motives to recognition of them.
D) disdain for the North Pole to appreciation of it.
答案:C,情感态度题(需要用瞬时记忆解题或是查看下一题是否为Command of Evidence
题)。原文25-27行(“What …Pole!”)对应uncertainty;原文54-55行(What …myself.”)对应
recognition
disdain vt. 蔑视(新SAT核心词)
appreciation n. 欣赏(托福核心词)
2.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
A) Lines 10-12 (“For . . . moment”)
B) Lines 21-25 (“Yet . . . will”)
C) Lines 40-42 (“And . . . stand on”)
D) Lines 54-55 (“What . . . myself”)
答案:D,Command of Evidence题
3.As used in lines 1-2, “not readily verifiable” most nearly means
A) unable to be authenticated.
B) likely to be contradicted.
C) without empirical support.
D) not completely understood.
答案:D,词汇题
authenticate vt. 证实(新SAT核心词)
contradict vt. 否定(新SAT核心词)
empirical adj. 经验的(新SAT核心词)
4.The sentence in lines 10-13 (“For years . . . other”) mainly serves to
A) expose a side of the narrator that he prefers to keep hidden.
B) demonstrate that the narrator thinks in a methodical and scientific manner.
C) show that the narrator feels himself to be influenced by powerful and independent forces.
D) emphasize the length of time during which the narrator has prepared for his expedition.
答案:C,修辞目的题,本题表面是推理题,本质却是一道细节题。10-13的文章清晰的表
达出了一个观点---作者到北极去,是受到一股力量(命运destiny)的指引
5.The narrator indicates that many previous explorers seeking the North Pole have
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