2016年12月3日亚太SAT阅读真题回忆-约翰·亚当斯写给妻子的信

　　2016年12月3日SAT考试已经结束。新航道SAT培训时间与你分享12月3日的SAT考情。上一篇小编分享的是2016年12月3日亚太SAT阅读真题回忆-A Room with a View，本篇小编接着介绍2016年12月3日亚太SAT阅读真题回忆第二篇Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife。

　　2、第二篇


　　题材：历史双篇

　　Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

　　梗概


　　历史双篇均选自美国第二任总统约翰·亚当斯写给妻子的信。此信写于独立宣言发布6个月后，信中探讨了美国独立宣言的意义所在，作者认为独立可能机遇与挑战并存，但美国必须获得独立。

　　原文：


　　Passage 1:

　　Yesterday the greatest Question wasdecided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was orwill be decided among Men. A Resolution was passed without one dissentingColony "that these united Colonies, are, and of right ought to be free andindependent States, and as such, they have, and of Right ought to have fullPower to make War, conclude Peace, establish Commerce, and to do all the otherActs and Things, which other States may rightfully do." You will see in afew days a Declaration setting forth the Causes, which have impelled Us to thismighty Revolution, and the Reasons which will justify it, in the Sight of Godand Man. A Plan of Confederation will be taken up in a few days.

　　When I look back to the Year 1761, andrecollect the Argument concerning Writs of Assistance, in the Superiour Court,which I have hitherto considered as the Commencement of the Controversy,between Great Britain and America, and run through the whole Period from thatTime to this, and recollect the series of political Events, the Chain of Causesand Effects, I am surprized at the Suddenness, as well as Greatness of thisRevolution. Britain has been filled with Folly, and America with Wisdom, atleast this is my judgment. Time must determine. It is the Will of Heaven, that the two Countries shouldbe sundered forever(考察该句中作者表达的对英美两国关系的理解).It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still morewasting and Distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the Case, it willhave this good Effect, at least: it will inspire Us with many Virtues, which Wehave not, and correct many Errors, Follies, and Vices, which threaten todisturb, dishonor, and destroy Us. The Furnace of Affliction producesRefinement, in States as well as Individuals. And the new Governments we areassuming, in every Part, will require a Purification from our Vices, and anAugmentation of our Virtues or they will be no Blessings. The People will have unboundedPower. And the People are extremely addicted to Corruption and Venality, aswell as the Great(对比题目中考察该句中the people的与篇章二中people的对比).But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, inwhich, unfashionable the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

　　Passage 2:

　　Had a Declaration of Independency beenmade seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and gloriousEffects. We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States.We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession of Canada. You willperhaps wonder, how such a Declaration would have influenced our Affairs, inCanada, but if I could write with Freedom I could easily convince you, that itwould, and explain to you the manner how.

　　But on the other Hand, the Delay ofthis Declaration to this Time has many great Advantages attending(考察该词在语境中的含义)it. The Hopes of Reconciliation, which were fondly entertained by Multitudes ofhonest and well meaning those weak and mistaken People, have been gradually andat last totally extinguished. Time has been given for the whole People,maturely to consider the great Question of Independence and to ripen theirjudgments, dissipate their Fears, and allure their Hopes, by discussing it inNews Papers and Pamphletts, by debating it, in Assemblies, Conventions,Committees of Safety and Inspection, in Town and County Meetings, as well as inprivate Conversations, so that the whole People in every Colony of the 13, havenow adopted it, as their own Act. This will cement the Union(考察该句，即本段所表达的delay的advantage),and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which might have been occasioned,by such a Declaration Six Months ago.

　　But the Day is past. The Second Day ofJuly 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.

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