关于SAT写作

逐步破解SAT写作

今天，我们看的题目有两个：

「Reading Passage 1」Viewpoint: Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us

SAT北美考区2016年5月写作真题

材料文原文获取源：《新SAT写作真题集（第五版)》

「Reading Passage 2」

How to Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prize

SAT亚太考区2017年5月写作真题

材料文原文获取源：《新SAT写作真题集（第五版)》

在SAT写作中，考生需要在自己的essay中明确对应材料文作者的writing techniques in diction，从而进一步完善我们在写作中对材料文进行分析的角度。我们首先以材料文「Viewpoint: Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us」的Paragraph 4为例，破解写作范文的一个段落：

Techniques in wording:
措辞	修辞	效果
igloo（冰窖）	exaggeration（夸张）	To an excessive extent AC is used.
artic（极寒的）	exaggeration（夸张）	To an excessive extent AC is used.
suicidal（自杀式的）	exaggeration（夸张）	The intimidating word is to deter residents from using AC excessively.
注意：Techniques区别于Strategy，内容分上的选择，文章结构上的安排

In Paragraph 4,「前半部分techniques频繁：the author deliberately exaggerates about the excessive use of AC in New York. In the description, the hyperbole—the diction of “igloos” and “artic air”—is yet accurate. The author then deems this way of using AC “suicidal”, and the intimidating word is to deter residents from using AC excessively. 「后半部分核心就是一个strategy：To further warn New Yorkers of the consequences of continuing using AC irresponsibly, the author makes an analogy in which the likely restraint on the use of AC is compared to the attempt to ban big soda. Since New Yorker resisted the big soda ban so hard, they would find it even more unacceptable to use AC under the government’s nanny-state guideline.我们再以材料文「How to Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prize」的Paragraphs 5-8（7和8的细节略）为例，破解写作范文的一个段落：

「分析technique：When the author points out the high requirements of being a female Nobel winner, she emphasizes having “preternatural determination” as a critical trait in addition to high intelligence, which is taken-for-granted. The diction is obviously exaggerated, 分析technique」and represent the author’s intended meaning that females having scientific pursuits must overcome the obstacles, from the culture, society and politics, that are as difficult and woefully adverse as the determination needs to be “preternatural”. The author then illustrates the difficulties by three examples from the three dimensions. Paragraph 6 is transition. In that paragraph,「分析technique：the rhetorical question is to stress the lack of legitimate reasons for the rarity of female Noble winners 分析technique」in the modern age when the Civil Right Act, affirmative action and Title IX have removed the obstacles It thus follows that institutions and federal agencies, as are named by the author, should take the responsibility to facilitate female scientists’ careers.

在今天的两个示范段落中，我们着重关注材料文中的techniques in diction，从而进一步完善我们在写作中对材料文进行分析的角度。