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1、小说 Literature: A Boring Story

文章的构成方式是经典的introduction + argument. 全文如下：

When she used to come from boarding-school and stay with us for the summer holidays, she talked of nothing with such pleasure and such warmth as of plays and actors. She bored us with her continual talk of the theatre. My wife and children would not listen to her. I was the only one who had not the courage to refuse to attend to her. When she had a longing to share her transports, she used to come into my study and say in an imploring tone:

"Nikolay Stepanovitch, do let me talk to you about the theatre!"

I pointed to the clock, and said:

"I'll give you half an hour -- begin."

Later on she used to bring with her dozens of portraits of actors and actresses which she worshipped; then she attempted several times to take part in private theatricals, and the upshot of it all was that when she left school she came to me and announced that she was born to be an actress.

解析：以上为文章introduction的部分，借由女儿对戏剧的热爱和对演员的崇拜，引出自己对于戏剧的看法。

I had never shared Katya's inclinations for the theatre. To my mind, if a play is good there is no need to trouble the actors in order that it may make the right impression; it is enough to read it. If the play is poor, no acting will make it good.

解析：此处有题，思路就是我们课上常讲的“观点拓展”。

In my youth I often visited the theatre, and now my family takes a box twice a year and carries me off for a little distraction. Of course, that is not enough to give me the right to judge of the theatre. In my opinion the theatre has become no better than it was thirty or forty years ago. Just as in the past, I can never find a glass of clean water in the corridors or foyers of the theatre. Just as in the past, the attendants fine me twenty kopecks for my fur coat, though there is nothing reprehensible in wearing a warm coat in winter. As in the past, for no sort of reason, music is played in the intervals, which adds something new and uncalled-for to the impression made by the play. As in the past, men go in the intervals and drink spirits in the buffet. If no progress can be seen in trifles, I should look for it in vain in what is more important. When an actor wrapped from head to foot in stage traditions and conventions tries to recite a simple ordinary speech, "To be or not to be," not simply, but invariably with the accompaniment of hissing and convulsive movements all over his body, or when he tries to convince me at all costs that Tchatsky, who talks so much with fools and is so fond of folly, is a very clever man, and that "Woe from Wit" is not a dull play, the stage gives me the same feeling of conventionality which bored me so much forty years ago when I was regaled with the classical howling and beating on the breast. And every time I come out of the theatre more conservative than I go in.

解析：此处出现了常见的fact+argument + supporting information的结构，针对这一结构也有考题。

The sentimental and confiding public may be persuaded that the stage, even in its present form, is a school; but any one who is familiar with a school in its true sense will not be caught with that bait. I cannot say what will happen in fifty or a hundred years, but in its actual condition the theatre can serve only as an entertainment. But this entertainment is too costly to be frequently enjoyed. It robs the state of thousands of healthy and talented young men and women, who, if they had not devoted themselves to the theatre, might have been good doctors, farmers, schoolmistresses, officers; it robs the public of the evening hours -- the best time for intellectual work and social intercourse. I say nothing of the waste of money and the moral damage to the spectator when he sees murder, fornication, or false witness unsuitably treated on the stage.

解析：这里出现了针对于school意思的问题。这里考核的是but转折逻辑。

Katya was of an entirely different opinion. She assured me that the theatre, even in its present condition, was superior to the lecture-hall, to books, or to anything in the world. The stage was a power that united in itself all the arts, and actors were missionaries. No art nor science was capable of producing so strong and so certain an effect on the soul of man as the stage, and it was with good reason that an actor of medium quality enjoys greater popularity than the greatest savant or artist. And no sort of public service could provide such enjoyment and gratification as the theatre.

解析：文章最后一段又回到了对于女儿观点的陈述。

总的来说，这篇文章比较简单，原因在于文章的结构完全合乎套路，易于理解和答题。

2、历史文章 History: 关于freedom of speech, 为对比篇章

这是考生普遍反映比较难的一篇。不仅是历史类话题，而且是对比篇章，更加深了其难度。

第1篇文章的作者认为言论自由应该有limitation，错误的言论会误导大众，产生不良后果。最有提高我们的国家现在虽然还没有这样的问题，但要时刻警惕。

第二篇章主要是说政府不要应该控制言论自由。如果民众的言论都是一致的，但一直并不代表就是正确的。在这种环境下，就算有人提出反对意见，或者是真相，最终还是会被大众意见淹没，不利于社会发展。

3、社科类文章 Social Science: big data

全篇文章以对比方式谈了在数据研究时，相较于traditional sampling, 现如今的big data的优势。在文章最后有观点提到大数据虽然数据多，但是准确性差。作者认为数据量大本身就可以弥补正确性的不足。对比逻辑是本文的关键点。

4、科普文章 Natural Science: Immune System

这篇文章是自然科学类文章的典型结构，试验中有新发现。

文章说在给老鼠身上注射破坏免疫力的病毒的过程中发现老鼠的免疫力提高了。然后科学家就开始研究原因是什么。然后发现老鼠体内有CT8这种元素，可以帮助形成抗体。然后又进一步研究，希望可以应用于人类疫苗上。

5、科普文章 Natural Science: chimpanzee vocalization (有图表)

上来就明确观点，强调大猩猩的能力不仅限于众所周知的“使用工具”(此处有题)。然后讲了大猩猩是有语言系统的。实验方法是模拟大猩猩在野外看到危险状况的情景，检测它的发生情况。

结果发现大猩猩的叫声的危险情况的严重程度不相关，而发现不仅能根据同伴的远近发出时长不同的声音，而且如果来的大猩猩是和自己关系比较好的，大猩猩发出的声音也不同(此处有推断题)

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