Chapter 1 New SAT Reading Section 1
Ⅰ.Major Changes 1
Ⅱ.Passage Contents 2
Ⅲ.SAT Reading Domain 3
Ⅳ.Key Features 5
Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Reading 11
Ⅰ.What is Evidence-Based Reading? 11
Ⅱ.Discerning Claims and Evidences 12
Ⅲ.Connecting Claims and Evidences 13
Ⅳ.Practice 14
Answer Key to Practice Exercises 1—11 37
Chapter 3 Words in Context 41
Ⅰ.Changes Highlighted 42
Ⅱ.Changes Analysis 42
Ⅲ.How to Identify Words in Context 44
Ⅳ.Structural Analysis:Using prefix,suffix,and root to determine the meaning 50
Ⅴ.The Importance of Structural Analysis 52
Chapter 4 Comprehensive Analysis 55
Ⅰ.Information ideas 55
Ⅱ.Determining the explicit/implicit meaning 59
Ⅲ.Understanding Relationships 62
Ⅳ.Rhetorical Analysis 67
Ⅳ.Synthesis 75
Chapter 5 SAT Reading Test Passage Distribution 81
Ⅰ.US.And World Literature 82
Ⅱ.Science 83
Ⅲ.History & Social Studies 85
Ⅳ.U.S.Based Founding Documents and Texts in the Great Global Conversation 85
Chapter 6 Strategic Reading Skills 87
Ⅰ.Asking the Right Questions 87
Ⅱ.Literary Devices 89
Ⅲ.Reading Strategies 115
Chapter 7 Practice Tests 119
Test 1 119
Test 2 142
Test 1 Answer Key 165
Test 2 Answer Key 171