SAT阅读必备OG之儿童与玩具

>>SAT阅读解析：SAT阅读必备OG之儿童与玩具

【儿童与玩具】

1. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. Passage 2 denounces writers like the author of Passage 1 as being completely wrong, but not because they are treating a serious object lightly. The last line of Passage 2 suggests that these authors get too caught up in writing about their subject matter and do not pay enough attention to the realities of what they are writing about.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. The writing style of Passage 1 is unquestionably stilted, but Passage 2 does not take issue with anyone's writing style.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. The author of Passage 2 fully grants that those like the author in Passage 1 are serious students of children at play. The supposed problem with them is that they jump from a "simple fact" to "grandiose conclusions" .

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. There is no suggestion anywhere in Passage 2 that people like the author of Passage 1 have ever falsified crucial evidence. Rather, what writers like this have supposedly done is draw false and "grandiose conclusions" from the evidence they have.

2. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer C :

Choice (C) is correct. The author's daughter's admonition, "Don't read it like that, Dad," is intended to bring the reader's rendering and the listener's inner voice into harmony. This suggests that in this case there is some active participation on the part of the listener.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. In context, the author's daughter's admonition is a request to the author to change the expression in his reading, not to put expression into his reading where there had been little or none before.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. The author of Passage 1 gives no indication that he considers his daughter precocious and no indication that he is displeased by his daughter's continual admonition, "Don't read it like that, Dad." Consequently, there is no reason to think that he mentions his daughter's admonitions in order to caution the reader against indulging precocious children.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. There is no commentary in the passage about how important it is to read to children.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. The author of Passage 1 does not mention his daughter's continual admonitions as a special achievement or as a source of parental pride.

3. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. This is not the same type of "translation": first, there is no reason to think that there is a gender difference between the scholar and the writer of the novel; second, there is a difference between reading a text and studying it. The situations are not, therefore, analogous.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. An artist switching from painting in oils to doing landscape watercolors is not a case of one person (the reader) "recreating" another person's (the writer's) creative work. Also, the element of gender is completely absent in the case of the painter who switches from one medium to another.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. A tourist who has difficulty understanding speakers of a regional dialect might actually need someone to "translate" literally what those speakers are saying. This is a more literal use of "translation" than that used in the passage.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. The issue of what characters appear in the text is not part of the discusssion in Passage 1. While including the daughter in the story will undoubtedly require an adjustment to elements of the story, this kind of adjustment is not a translation in the sense under discussion here.

4. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. The author of Passage 1 has a number of unfavorable things to say about audio-book speakers, but what he says is not a repetition of these criticisms.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. Audio books read by the books' authors are singled out for special praise. If these authors are ones whose works the author of Passage 1 has greatly enjoyed reading, he does not say so. Consequently, there is no reason to regard as a tribute to writers that the author has particularly enjoyed reading.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. There is a single word that refers to an aspect of production—"re-mastered"—but this is only a passing reference.

5. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer E :

Choice (E) is correct. The author uses "intonations, mistakes, involuntary grunts, and sighs" as clues to what the people who read to her think of what they are reading. She then checks the readers' reactions against her own, and in this way she achieves a "sense of continuous back-and-forth commentary" . So the author strongly suggests that these unconscious expressions on the part of readers are generally not just random noise but often reveal something about the readers' ideas.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. In Passage 2, there is no evaluation of the speaking skills of audio-book readers. The point of mentioning these things is that they are involuntary and often give away a reader's reaction to something in the text being read.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. The author does not say anything about not getting an author's intended meaning on account of a speaker's vocal inflections. The mannerisms are mentioned as revealing readers' opinions of the text they are reading.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. The author acknowledges that her ideas are considered idiosyncratic, or peculiar, by sighted readers, but the mannerisms are mentioned as part of her ideas, not as ways in which others find her ideas strange.

6. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer D :

Choice (D) is correct. The author of Passage 2 offers the quotations as examples to back up her claim that "reading their work aloud also makes the students more conscious of flaws in their prose" . In one case, the flaw was in an earlier, abandoned version. But in the other case, the flaw is still present in the text submitted by the student, and the student became aware of the flaw as a result of reading the text aloud.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. The quotations are meant to support the assertion by the author of Passage 2 that students are more apt to notice flaws in their writing when they read what they have written out loud. But the passage does not say anything about whether these flaws are predictable.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. The quotations that the author of Passage 2 uses do show students evaluating their own work critically. Neither quotation suggests that the students are overly critical of what they have written.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. The author of Passage 2 gives no indication that she believes that any of her students find reading aloud challenging.

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