2018年5月5日SAT阅读真题及解析1

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SAT阅读真题原文1之文学类

第 一篇“The Mysterious Portrait”的节选，作者NicolaiGogol。 讲了一个艺术家内心的价值观冲突，一方面他的教授劝告他不要浮躁要专心于艺术创作不要浪费他的天赋; 另一方面他自己面临的现实是如果高雅艺术根本赚不到什么钱，生活无法负担，只能去做一些迎合买家的作品。

Passage 1: The MysteriousPortrait, Literature

Young Chartkov was an artist with a talent that promised much: in flashes and moments his brush bespoke power of observation, understanding, a strong impulse to get closer to nature.

"Watch out, brother," his professor had told him more than once, "you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you're impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your fancy—and you occupy yourself with it, and the rest can rot, you don't care about it, you don't even want to look at it. Watch out you don't turn into a fashionable painter. Even now your colors are beginning to cry a bit too loudly. Your drawing is imprecise, and sometimes quite weak, the line doesn't show; you go for fashionable lighting, which strikes the eye at once. Watch out or you'll fall right into the English type. Beware. You already feel drawn to the world: every so often I see a showy scarf on your neck, a glossy hat. . . It's enticing, you can start painting fashionable pictures, little portraits for money. But that doesn't develop talent, it ruins it. Be patient.Ponder over every work, drop showiness—let the others make money. You won't come out the loser."

The professor was partly right. Sometimes, indeed, our artist liked to carouse or play the dandy—in short, to show off his youth here and there. Yet, for all that, he was able to keep himself under control. At times he was able to forget everything and take up his brush, and had to tear himself away again as if from a beautiful, interrupted dream. His taste was developing noticeably. He still did not understand all the depth of Raphael, but was already carried away by the quick, broad stroke of Guido, paused before Titian's portraits, admired the Flemish school. 6 The dark surface obscuring the old paintings had not yet

been entirely removed for him; yet he already perceived something in them, though inwardly he did not agree with his professor that the old masters surpassed us beyond reach; it even seemed to him that the nineteenth century was significantly ahead of them in certain things, that the imitation of nature as it was done now had become somehow brighter, livelier, closer; in short, he thought in this case as a young man thinks who already understands something and feels it in his proud inner consciousness. At times he became vexed when he saw how some foreign painter, a Frenchman or a German, sometimes not even a painter by vocation, with nothing but an accustomed hand, a quick brush, and bright colors, would produce a general stir and instantly amass a fortune. This would come to his mind not when, all immersed in his work, he forgot drinking and eating and the whole world, but when he would finally come hard up against necessity, when he had no money to buy brushes and paints, when the importunate landlord came ten times a day to demand the rent. Then his hungry imagination enviously pictured the lot of the rich painter; then a thought glimmered that often passes through a Russian head: to drop everything and go on a spree out of grief and to spite it all. And now he was almost in such a situation.

“Yes! be patient, be patient!" he said with vexation. "But patience finally runs out. Be patient! And on what money will I have dinner tomorrow? No one will lend to me. And if I were to go and sell all my paintings and drawings, I'd get twenty kopecks for the lot. They've been useful, of course, I feel that: it was not in vain that each of them was undertaken, in each of them I learned something. But what's the use? Sketches, attempts—and there will constantly be sketches, attempts, and no end to them. And who will buy them, if they don't know my name? And who needs drawings from the antique, or from life class, or my unfinished Love of Psyche, or a perspective of my room, or the portrait of my Nikita, though it's really better than the portraits of some fashionable painter? What is it all, in fact? Why do I suffer and toil over the ABC's like a student, when I could shine no worse than the others and have money as they do?”

SAT阅读真题解读1之文学类

第 一篇“The Mysterious Portrait”的节选，作者NicolaiGogol。 讲了一个艺术家内心的价值观冲突，一方面他的教授劝告他不要浮躁要专心于艺术创作不要浪费他的天赋; 另一方面他自己面临的现实是如果高雅艺术根本赚不到什么钱，生活无法负担，只能去做一些迎合买家的作品。

题目：

第 一题：大意题：the passage mainly concerns， (答案：the struggle the artist’s values)

第二题：段落目的题，the main purpose of the first paragraphis ，(答案：to present the main character’sartistic traits)

第三题&第四题：询证题，the professor’sview of great art is， (答案：it should be artistic accomplished andnot garish)

第五题：词汇题，fashionable， (答案：trendy)

第六题：细节推断题，the professor and the artist differs intheir views concerning whether， (答案：gaining money is detrimental to artisticintegrity)

第七题：词汇题，考want， (答案：need)

第八题&第九题：询证题，问the artist’s view of highartistic standard is that ，(答案：it is laborious and does not get thedeserved compensation)

第十题：段落目的题，问the purpose of the last paragraph，(答案：tocatalogue the frustrations of the young artist)

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