SAT考试最新阅读真题（一）

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　　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?”

　　Passage 2: False Memory, Social Science

　　RememberThat? No, You Don’t. Study Shows False Memories Afflict Us All

　　Even people with extraordinary memories sometimes make things up without realizing it.

　　It’s easy enough to explain why we rememberthings: multiple regions of the brain — particularlythe hippocampus — are devoted to the job. It’s easy to understand why we forgetstuff too: there’s only so much any busy brain can handle. What’s trickier iswhat happens in between: when we clearly remember things that simply neverhappened.

　　The phenomenon of false memories iscommon to everybody — the party you’re certain you attended in high school,say, when you were actually home with the flu, but so many people have told youabout it over the years that it’s made its way into your own memory cache.False memories can sometimes be a mere curiosity, but other times they havereal implications. Innocent people have gone to jail when well-intentionedeyewitnesses testify to events that actually unfolded an entirely differentway.

　　What’s long been a puzzle to memoryscientists is whether some people may be more susceptible to false memoriesthan others — and, by extension, whether some people with exceptionally goodmemories may be immune to them. A new study in the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences answersboth questions with a decisive no. False memories afflict everyone — evenpeople with the best memories of all.

　　To conduct the study, a team led bypsychologist Lawrence Patihis of the University of California, Irvine, recruited a sample group of people all ofapproximately the same age and divided them into two subgroups: those withordinary memory and those with what is known as highly superiorautobiographical memory (HSAM). You’ve met people like that before, and theycan be downright eerie. They’re the ones who can tell you the exact date onwhich particular events happened — whether in their own lives or in the news — aswell as all manner of minute additional details surrounding the event that mostpeople would forget the second they happened.

　　To screen for HSAM, the researchershad all the subjects take a quiz that asked such questions as “[On what date]did an Iraqi journalist hurl two shoes at President Bush?” or “What publicevent occurred on Oct. 11, 2002?” Those who excelled on that part of thescreening would move to a second stage, in which they were given random,computer-generated dates and asked to say the day of the week on which it fell,and to recall both a personal experience that occurred that day and a publicevent that could be verified with a search engine.

　　“It was a Monday,” said one personasked about Oct. 19, 1987. “That was the day of the big stock-market crash andthe cellist Jacqueline du Pré died that day.” That’s somepretty specific recall. Ultimately, 20 subjects qualified for the HSAM groupand another 38 went into the ordinary-memory category. Both groups werethen tested for their ability to resist developing false memories during aseries of exercises designed to implant them.

　　In one, for example, theinvestigators spoke with the subjects about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks andmentioned in passing the footage that had been captured of United Flight 93crashing in Pennsylvania — footage, of course, that does not exist. In bothgroups — HSAM subjects and those with normal memories — about 1 in 5 people “remembered”seeing this footage when asked about it later.

　　“It just seemed like something wasfalling out of the sky,” said one of the HSAM participants. “I was just, youknow, kind of stunned by watching it, you know, go down.”

　　Word recall was also hazy. Thescientists showed participants word lists, then removed the lists and testedthe subjects on words that had and hadn’t been included. The lists allcontained so-called lures — words that would make subjects think of other,related ones. The words pillow, duvet and nap, for example, might lead to a false memory of seeing the word sleep. All of the participants in both groups fell for the lures,with at least eight such errors per person—though some tallied as many as 20.Both groups also performed unreliably when shown photographs and fed luresintended to make them think they’d seen details in the pictures they hadn’t.Here too, the HSAM subjects cooked up as many fake images as the ordinaryfolks.

　　“What I love about the study is howit communicates something that memory-distortion researchers have suspected forsome time, that perhaps no one is immune to memory distortion,” said Patihis.

　　What the study doesn’t do, Patihisadmits, is explain why HSAM people exist at all. Their prodigious recall is amatter of scientific fact, and one of the goals of the new work was to see ifan innate resistance to manufactured memories might be one of the reasons. Buton that score, the researchers came up empty.

　　“It rules something out,” Patihissaid. “[HSAM individuals] probably reconstruct memories in the same way thatordinary people do. So now we have to think about how else we could explain it.”He and others will continue to look for that secret sauce that elevatessuperior recall over the ordinary kind. But for now, memory still appears to befragile, malleable and prone to errors — for all of us.

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