2017年5月SAT阅读机经详解

red

和

green

这 两种生物在

acquire means

to make its own food

之前。

2017

年

5

月

SAT

机经阅读文章原文

5

月

SAT

考试第一篇小说文章的阅读原文

:

Two boys were playing carrom on the steps of a small, painted shed which had the

following

words on its wall in large, black letters: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

SPORTSMEN. A single table-tennis table inside the shed could be glimpsed through

the window. The boys interrupted their game to give Chhotomama

directions

to

the house

in

a series of

sporadic, enthusiastic gestures. Oh yes,

they knew the old couple. And yes, their son and daughter in-law had arrived last

night with their first child.

'Is it a girl or a boy?' asked Mamima, rolling down the window.

'A gir,l ' said the boy.

Mamima rolled up her window before the mosquitoes

came in. The two boys

vanished behind them. When they reached the house, they found that the old man

was waiting on the verandah with a lantern in his hand. Moths were shuddering

round and round the lantern, though the old man was oblivious to them. He had

come out because he had heard the throbbing of the engine in the distance. The

night had been silent except for the questioning cry of an owl and the continual

orchestral sound of crickets in the bushes. The throbbing of the

engine

had,

therefore,

travelled

through

the silence

to

the

old

man's listening ear. and

to his wife's ear. even when the car was relatively far away and beyond their range

of vision. They had pondered

over the sound, and finally, he had lit the lantern and

shuffled out. 'I told her,' he said, referring to his wife. 'I told her that I heard the car, I

knew it was the car, I told her you were coming.'