SAT短篇阅读真题详解第一篇

　　在上一篇文章中我们介绍了SAT短篇阅读的解题策略，下面给出SAT短篇阅读真题加以说明，让大家通过做题知道该如何运用解题技巧。

　　Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in each passage and in any introductory material that may be provided.

　　Passage 1

　　Question 9-10 are based on the following passage.

　　Through a friends father, Elizabeth found a job at a publishing company. Her parents were puzzled by this. The daughters of their friends were announcing their engagements in the Times, and those who joined the Peace Corps or had gone to graduate school were filed under the heading of Useful Service, as if they had entered convents or dedicated themselves to the poor. Elizabeth further puzzled her parents by refusing to take a cent of their money, although her mother knew the truth: what you dole out to the young binds them to you. To have Elizabeth owing nothing was disconcerting, to say the least.

　　9. The narrator mentions the daughters of Elizabeths parents in line 3 primarily to

　　 criticize a behavior

　　 praise an activity

　　 explain a reaction

　　 note a transformation

　　 advocate an action

　　10. The passage suggests that Elizabeths parents found which quality to be disconcerting in their daughter?

　　 Magnanimity

　　 Independence

　　 Frugality

　　 Lack of ambition

　　 Unwillingness to take risks