2019新SAT考试官方指南阅读中心题型解析3

>>SAT阅读：2019新SAT考试官方指南阅读中心题型解析3

>>SAT考试精品提升课程

P663——Section 7

SUV的背后

9. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer D :

Choice (D) is correct. Passage 1 says that the fake Western names of many SUVs are used to magnify their appeal and also claims that those names actually have a lot to do with the seemingly unstoppable advance (line 1) of SUVs. So Passage 1 supports the idea that buyers of SUVs are influenced by model names used as a marketing strategy. The article cited in Passage 2 calls the choice of name for an SUV "marketing hype" (line 18) and suggests that the image that a model name plants in customers' minds is important. This also supports the idea that buyers of SUVs are influenced by a marketing strategy.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. Neither passage gives any indication that the buyers of SUVs actually intend to drive them on the sort of rough terrain that their names suggest they can handle. In fact, the article cited in Passage 2 makes a claim to the contrary: "most buyers will never venture into territory any less trampled than the parking lot of the local shopping mall" (lines 16-18).

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. Although both passages refer to mountains as the inspiration for SUV names, neither passage suggests that these mountains have any literal significance. In fact, Passage 1 says, "No one much cares about what those names denote" (lines 6-7). The names function purely as a marketing device. Putting such names on SUVs suggests the conquest of previously untamed nature and allows manufacturers to play on the buyer's need for a sense of power and control.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. Passage 1 does not touch on the financial side of buying an SUV. Passage 2 does suggest a connection between being well-to-do and owning an SUV, but since Passage 1 does not support any generalization about how wealthy buyers of SUVs are, it would be wrong to claim that both Passage 1 and Passage 2 support a generalization about the wealth of SUV buyers.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. Although both passages comment on the connection between the names of SUVs and the psychological needs of buyers of SUVs, neither passage says anything about their social status. The kind of insecurity suggested by the reference in Passage 2 to "limited-access communities in houses guarded by sophisticated surveillance systems" is plainly the insecurity that people feel about their personal safety, not about their social status.

10

10. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer A :

Choice (A) is correct. Passage 1 calls SUVs "giant" (line 1) and describes them as "high-clearance trucks with four-wheel drive and front bumpers as big as battering rams" (lines 3-4). Passage 1 is thus very clear about the imposing bulk of SUVs. Passage 2, on the other hand, does not mention the physical dimensions of SUVs at all.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. Neither passage says anything about increases in the price of SUVs or in what it costs to own and operate one.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. Passage 1 does address the psychology of SUV owners. It implies that they are people to whom the notions of rugged individualism, mastery over the wilderness, cowboy endurance (lines 8-9) are appealing. However, Passage 2 also address the psychology of SUV owners. Passage 2 suggests that they are people who suffer from "fears both real and imagined" (line 25) and who see SUVs as providing protection from those fears.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. Neither passage mentions any aspect of the environmental impact of SUVs. The passages do mention lakes, mountains, etc., but only as features of the environment that SUVs are named for.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. Passage 1 does address the significance of the names of SUVs by suggesting that their names have a lot to do with why they are so popular. However, Passage 2 addresses the significance of their names, too. The article cited by Passage 2 associates the name of a particular make of SUV with customers' sense that they can cope with wilderness. So here, too, names have significance as a marketing device.

11

11. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer D :

Choice (D) is correct. Passage 2 explains what is subtle about naming an SUV for an Alaskan mountain. According to Passage 2, the point is not actually to associate the vehicle with that mountain as a real destination that the vehicle will take the buyer to. Rather, it is merely to give buyers the general feeling that they are the kind of people who can conquer rugged terrain. Passage 1 makes essentially the same point when it says that people do not greatly care about what the names of lakes, frontier towns, and mountain ranges that are given to SUVs actually refer to. What matters is the "connotations" (line 8) of those names, like "rugged individualism, mastery over the wilderness, cowboy endurance" (lines 8-9).

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. The phrase "inexorable advance" (line 1) is used to indicate that SUVs are becoming increasingly common. So this phrase refers to the result of the appeal SUVs have for people buying a vehicle. The "subtleties" mentioned in Passage 2 are things that marketers rely on to make SUVs appealing. So the marketing subtleties are the cause, and growing sales are the effect. But effects are not examples of causes.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. The "subtleties" mentioned in Passage 2 are subtleties in the way the choice of a name for a SUV influences prospective buyers. The fact that SUVs, as Passage 1 claims, have "front bumpers as big as battering rams" (line 4) is not an aspect of the subtle appeal that the names of SUVs have for buyers.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :

Choice (C) is incorrect. According to Passage 1, "lakes, frontier towns, mountain ranges" (line 7) are among the kinds of things SUVs are named for. But, as Passage 1 also says, people do not actually greatly care about these places. What matters to people is the qualities that these names suggest. The subtleties that Passage 2 mentions are these suggestions of special qualities that are linked to the names of SUVs, not the actual places that those names refer to.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. The phrase "Frankensteinian concoctions" (line 11) is derived from the familiar figure of Frankenstein's monster, and it is used to talk about SUVs themselves. But the word "subtleties" (line 15) relates to what the names of SUVs suggest, not to SUVs themselves. And since the phrase "Frankensteinian concoctions" has nothing to do with the name of any SUV, it cannot be an example of that sort of subtlety.

12

12. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Explanation for Correct Answer C :

Choice (C) is correct. Passage 1 says that what matters about the fake Western names used to market SUVs is "their connotations of rugged individualism, mastery over the wilderness, cowboy endurance" (lines 8-9). The article cited in Passage 2 says that naming an SUV for an Alaskan mountain is meant to "plant the image in customers' minds that they can conquer rugged terrain" (lines 18-19). In both cases, feelings of power and control are meant to be called up.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :

Choice (A) is incorrect. The desire for a sense of mastery over the challenges of a difficult environment is not a primitive instinct but a fairly complex notion, having to do with issues of confidence and self-image. Both passages strongly suggest that the environment that presents people with challenges is not real lakes and mountains but rather their social and economic environment.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :

Choice (B) is incorrect. There is no indication in either passage that the imagery used to market SUVs is supposed to make people wish they lived simpler lives. Rather, what people are said to associate with that imagery is a superior ability to deal with the lives they do lead.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :

Choice (D) is incorrect. Passage 1 says directly that "no one much cares about what those names denote (lakes, frontier towns, mountain ranges)" (lines 6-7), so evoking the beauty of unspoiled nature is not the point. The article cited in Passage 2 does not relate the marketing imagery to a concern with the beauty of unspoiled nature either. The imagery is intended to suggest the conquest of "wilderness," but as lines 20-25 speculate, this wilderness may not be unspoiled nature but people's everyday living and working environment.

Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :

Choice (E) is incorrect. Passage 1 does mention that the imagery is intended to appeal to the value people place on "rugged individualism." The article cited in Passage 2, however, suggests that the appeal is ultimately to a certain conformity: the conformity of people living in limited-access communities driving SUVs as "the perfect transportation shelter to protect [them] from fears both real and imagined" (lines 24-25). The SUV is seen here as an extension of a sort of power and control that is closely tied to conformity.

同学们一定要在考试之前做足够多的习题，把重点放在SAT考试真题上，毕竟真题的参考价值还是很大的。特别是考试官方OG的真题解析更要多看看。知识点看累了就抽空做题，或读几篇原文文章，让自己获得满足感。还想了解更多就来坦途网SAT考试频道吧。