【2017年4月8日ACT考试全回顾】

　　2017年4月亚洲ACT考试，本次考试的代码为：71F。难度应该属于适中。新航道学校的老师，在考试结束后，时间对本次考试的各项内容作了简单的回顾与分析，供大家以参考。还有【4月8日香港ACT考试作文范文】新鲜出炉！提供给大家参加。

　　英语单项分析

　　一、考点：

　　1.标点符号：冒号考察了解释说明，表示列举。后面跟多者并列：a, b, and c.

　　2.词法：主谓一致，时态，代词。

　　3.句法：考定语从句(which, whom)。Run-On和Fragment等，难度比平时的卷子大。句子较长，结构也复杂一些。

　　4.修辞题：主旨大意题偏少。排序题两个。Placement题两个，有一题稍难。

　　二、文章内容：

　　/Passage 1/ ：讲的是Velcro。

　　In 1948, Swiss engineer and amateur mountaineer George de Mestral went hiking in the woods with his dog. Upon arriving back at his home, he took note of the burrs that clung to his clothes and he wondered if such an idea could be useful in commercial application. He studied a burr under a microscope only to discover that they were covered in tiny hooks, which allowed them to grab onto clothes and fur that brushed in passing. After more than eight years of research and work, he created what is known now today as Velcro, a combination of the words “velvet” and “crochet.” Made up of two strips of fabric, one covered in thousands of tiny hooks and the other with thousands of tiny loops, the materials gripped together firmly while still allowing easy release.

　　/Passage 4/：人物传记。Nana Elaine。

　　"Elaine" (1945) is an early short story published by J. D. Salinger in Story. In it, the title character lives with her mom and grandmother in the Bronx. She is a beautiful young girl unaware of the miasma of the city around her. One reason for this is that she is intellectually years behind her peers, graduating from eighth grade at 16 after being "tested" at age 7 and forced to stay back two grades. Salinger writes that she is one of only two students wearing lipstick at the graduation ceremony.

　　/Passage 5/：Onion为什么会让人流眼泪。

　　Why do onions make us cry? Many a poet has pondered. Is it because their beautiful, multilayered complexity moves us to weep? Are we mourning the majestic bulb as we cut it up and consume it? Or are these tears induced by the tragic tedium of chopping, chopping, chopping? Yes, yes. All of the above. But also, it's because of a chemical irritant called syn-propanethial-S-oxide, says chemist Eric Block, who has written the authoritative book on onions — and other alliums. "See, the onion is a perennial bulb that lives in the ground with lots of critters who are looking for a snack," says Block. "So it has evolved a chemical defense system." That is to say, onions want to make us cry — so we'll stop trying to eat them (not that most of us are deterred).

　　阅读单项分析

　　一、考点：

　　本次阅读试题难度较大，体现在几个方面：

　　1. 小说的单词考查较难，学生必须认识比如exasperate, evasive， exuberant等等情感词汇。小说具体内容为出版社派出以为助手帮助一位作家进行稿子的辨别和修改。但是这位作家不是特别配合，最后助手无奈离开。

　　2. 社科文章考查政府和个人关系，比较抽象，而不是之前考查的社会现象类文章。具体内容涉及到功利主义和个人自由的话题。

　　3. 人文和自然科学难度正常。但是前两篇比较难之后，可能对于大部分同学的时间消耗较多，所以剩余的思考不足。

　　通常来说，四月的考试比较简单，但是这次确实时逆向而行，所以ACT考生一定要把握住6月和9月的考试机会，增强实力，多多积累词汇;争取下次一次性搞定。

　　二、内容：

　　/Prose Fiction/

　　讲了一个养蜜蜂的人给一个出版社写文章，逼不得已的情况下写了一些内容。但出版社觉得内容太晦涩，就给他派了一名助手，而后产生的情况就是这个人变懒。

　　/Social Science/

　　John Stuart Mill, (God) Father观点对比。

　　/Humanities/

　　妈妈留给小女孩很多味道，教会她很多事，比如玫瑰花的香味，小女孩不觉得这是什么特别的，而等到她长大后才明白这些香味的珍贵，是一篇幼儿时的回忆文章。

　　科学单项分析

　　这一次的科学不算是太难，有一些文章对学生的知识的要求比之前的高。考到热传导速度，紫外线数据的测量，染料的光强测量。

　　写作单项分析

　　本次亚太写作考题：32L。 话题：讨论implication of desire。(明天我们将公布完整的题目和范文)

　　P1:desire让人们不幸福，代表dissatisfaction，满足于现有的happiness

　　P2:desire是natural，是社会进步的根本

　　P3:desire 不好，人们应该focus on helping people getting what they need.