我們知道SSAT考試是申請美國優質私立中學的必備要求（但并未嚴格限制分數標準），由于該考試以一年為周期，且每年只安排8次考試，如果考生計劃在來年秋季正常入學，最好盡早考出SSAT成績，以免分數不理想，還可以繼續復習準備，多次報考。
無論報名參加哪種考試，預留備考時間是必需，通常情況下，什么樣的備考方法最直接且有效？答：以考試真題為范本進行練習。的確，結合我們自身經驗，備考少不了“搜集真題、模擬演練”兩大環節。而本文將分析“如何備考SSAT考試”，也同樣會從考試真題入手，結合杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師的教學經驗進行敘述。
SSAT考試真題最重要的作用是幫助考生熟悉考試題型，例如閱讀理解部分文章篇幅長短、文后一般設置幾道題目、從哪些角度來設問？寫作題目要求寫哪種文體？數學計算題高頻考點等。基于SSAT考試真題，考生可以對試卷設置及答題時間有較為清晰的認識，做到胸有成竹，有助于減輕考試壓力。
此外，在多次練習SSAT真題過程中，考生還可以總結常考詞匯、加深記憶；發現自己答題薄弱環節（例如數學基本概念不清晰、閱讀速度太慢、寫作沒有思路等），并且通過后期參加SSAT考試培訓，有針對性地提升英語能力，最終實現整體成績的提高。
既然SSAT考試真題如此重要，我們可以從哪里獲取呢？杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師首先建議大家通過官網渠道，因為考試官方已提供一部分考試樣題（PDF版本），但是終歸數量有限。除官網外，考生還可以詳詢當地SSAT考試培訓機構的輔導課程，以杭州優朗教育為例，這里的老師每年都會根據學員反饋匯編SSAT考試真題，從中總結出題規律，并將其運用到實際教學課程中。
杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師發現：為了避免考生刷題應試，向所申請的學校展示“虛假”的英語水平，SSAT考試題庫從去年年底開始逐步更新，并將長時間持續。這一現象雖然增加了考生備考難度及時限，但是也間接提升考生的質量。“先苦后甜”，前期的認真備考為未來學習之途打好基礎。因此，杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師建議大家在備考SSAT時，摒棄“只刷真題就能提分”的想法，最好跟隨老師輔導，充分利用考試真題+系統復習體系備考。下文是培訓老師收集的部分SSAT考試寫作、閱讀真題，從中可以先熟悉一下題型設置，文后已附真題答案及簡析。
1、SSAT考試寫作真題
SSAT中、高級考試的寫作部分通常以議論文為主，初級考試也會涉及其他文體。據培訓實情，國內考生大多參加中、高級考試，他們所拿到的寫作題目為“二選一”形式：包括創意寫作（要求考生發揮想象力，以一句話為基礎敘寫故事）+議論文（針對某種現象或觀點發辮看法）。SSAT考試寫作真題如下：
創意寫作題目：
1.She realized that she already said too much.
2.That was the first time of its kind.
3.What would it be if they had known it sooner?
4.Honesty is the most important thing of friendship.
5.What are you doing? She said...
6.No matter what he cannot tell this to Avery.
7.They say that these things happen once in your life.
議論文題目：
1.Do you think whether photographs tell the whole story or not and why?”
2.Which kind of pet do you like most and why?
3.What's the most important memory standing out in you mind?
4.你覺得success和achievement的區別和定義是什么？
5.Which century would you like to live in?
6.Modern day technology makes the people closer or farther? Give specific details.
7.What motivates you to study in school?
雖然SSAT考試寫作部分不計算分數，但是考試官方會將其寄送給考生所申請美國中學作為錄取參考。可以說，SSAT有一個隱形的分數，校招生辦老師會從中評估一個學生的英語運用能力，若考生作文過差，勢必影響最終錄取。
2、SSAT考試閱讀真題：
SSAT考試的閱讀部分通常包括8篇文章，由于考試時長限制，每篇文章篇幅不長，難度中等。杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師發現閱讀部分的題源十分豐富，文學小說、科學發現、社會研究都包含在內，其中，文學小說類文本多取自美國經典文學形象，或名著。下文所列舉的SSAT考試閱讀真題分別講述了“吸血鬼”與“麥哲倫科學發現”，來看看文后題目吧。
Text 1
I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
5 Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me 15 wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said,
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!" The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking. So to make sure, I said interrogatively, "Count Dracula?"He bowed in a courtly way as he replied,
"I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest." As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage. He had carried it in before I could forestall him. I protested, but he insisted.
1. It can be inferred that the author regards the wildlife described in the passage primarily with which of the following emotions?
(A) Pleasure (B) Disinterested (C) Sympathy
(D) Curiosity (E) Fear
2.Which of the following best describes the tone that is established in lines 1-4?
(A) Impatience (B) Panic (C) Boredom
(D) Foreboding (E) Curiosity
3. The narrator's first impression of Dracula is that he is
(A) a wealthy landowner (B) an insecure host
(C) a ghostlike figure (D) an elderly, refined gentleman
(E) a sikcly individual
解析：作者對于Dracula的第一印象。這道題目是有不確定性。對于原作熟悉的同學，會第一反應把Vampire的頭銜套上，然后輕易地選擇Ghostlike figure，像鬼一樣的形象。但事實并非如此。初見Dracula，是一個身著黑袍的高瘦男子，“clean shaven”，“antique silver lamp”, “a courtly gesture”, “excellent English”無一不強調著他禮貌高貴的形象。所以初識，是一個謙謙長者的形象。
4. The narrator notes that despite Dracula's apparent age, he
(A) has very smooth hands (B) is also a chauffeur
(C) dresses flamboyantly (D) has a painfully strong handshake
(E) speaks with a loud, clear voice
解析：作者注意到雖然Dreacula的年齡已經很大了，原文中的“holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength” “The strength of the handshake was so much akin”都表現出了老Dracula異于常人的握力，所以D選項即為所選。
5. The narrator questions Dracula because he
(A) wants to ascertain Dracula's identity
(B) wants to avoid imposing on Dracula
(C) is unsure whether he has arrived at the right home
(D) feels challenged by Dracula
(E) does not trust Dracula
解析：作者向Dracula提問是希望確認什么。文中唯一一處“I”提出問題，是要確認對方就是他的委托人“Count Dracula？”該句之前，很明顯的有一個So，于是循著so往前找原因，“The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.”我懷疑眼前的伯爵即是之前“我”與之交談過的車夫。于是有此一問。所以答案選擇B，想要確認Dracula的身份。
Text 2
In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they found the passage they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints, but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we now call the International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea, many of Magellan's men died of starvation and disease.
Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.
1.The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
A. Cosmic B. land C. mental
D. common man E. none of the above
2. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
A. Entanglement B. discussion C. negotiation
D. Problems E. none of the above
3. The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on one side or the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends in a ___ direction.
A. north and south B. crosswise C. easterly
D. south east E. north and west
4. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a
passage across the continent.
A. Coastline B. mountain range C. physical features
D. Islands E. none of the above
5. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.
A. Coast B. inland
C. body of land with water on three sides
D. Border E. answer not available
6. The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.
A. Greenwich B. The equator C. Spain
D. Portugal E. Madrid
7. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line.
A. imaginary circle passing through the poles
B. Imaginary line parallel to the equator
C. area
D. land mass
E. answer not found in article
讀完這些SSAT寫作、閱讀真題，結合答案解析，大家有沒有總結一些答題技巧呢？其實，關于考試真題，還有不少學員來詢問杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師：“老師，因為我剛剛才開始備考，對這個SSAT還不是很熟悉，現在做真題有效果嗎？會不會分數很差？”這個問題其實可以概括為“什么時候做SSAT考試真題比較好？”SSAT培訓師認為，沒有標準答案，因為每位學員的英語基礎不同，備考起點亦有高低，所以什么時候做真題因人而異。
對此，杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓老師建議大家不要想著什么時候做真題最好，應該多次重復利用真題，例如本周為自己準備一套SSAT考試真題，至少進行一次完整的考試模擬，嚴格控制考試時長，即使做不完題目，也要按照流程交卷；其余時間可以跟隨培訓課程進度，分別對閱讀、數學、詞匯等進行部分真題練習；到了第二周再次進行考試模擬。若學習效率高，可以一個月為周期，對這四周復習的4套SSAT考試真題試卷進行總結。進入備考SSAT后期階段，考生所掌握的知識及答題技巧大大增加，此時還可以適當增加真題練習頻次，一周進行2-3次模擬，練習答題速度及提升準確率。
最后，根據實際教學經驗，較少考生會自己備考SSAT考試，因為這是一個艱難的選擇：學習計劃制定與執行、疑問如何解決、怎么去搜集考試真題、資料等等，尤其對于中學生、備考時間長的考生來說更是如此。因此，杭州優朗SSAT考試培訓中心推出“SSAT考試培訓課程”，既有一體化教學內容，也有分別針對各部分考試內容的講解。有關課程內容安排、獲取SSAT考試真題、資訊，請向優朗SSAT課程顧問老師咨詢！
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