2017年5月新SAT亚太考试真题及答案解析!5月6日SAT考试阅读部分文章类型分别为文学作品、社会科学、自然科学、、自然科学。语法部分难度比较适中主要考察了动词的时态，近义词的辨析等。写作部分属于社会类话题。下面一起来回顾下5月6日SAT亚太真题及分析。
2017年5月新SAT亚太考试真题之语法
2017年5月6日
Passage 1
内容：patient's electronic record 建立病人的电子版病历，这一改变在医学界有着重大突破和积极影响。它规避了很多纸质病历的缺点(比如存储空间、信息共享)，并且现在已在很多地区普及使用，有必要推动电子病历完全取代纸质病例。
Passage 2
内容：beaver被生态学家称为“ecological engineer”，因为海狸刨的dam对生态系统有积极影响，比如对抗干旱等问题。附了两个图，分别是1.有海狸的地区;2.没有海狸的地区，水量的增长一个幅度大一个幅度微小。
Passage 3
内容：米开朗基罗改建cathedral要做一个David的雕像，但是大理石材料被损坏、制作难度很大。不过他还是在两年之内完成了这座兼具美观外形和内在人文意义的纪念雕塑。改建很成功，文章现实了米开朗琪罗的伟大。
Passage 4
内容：有两个优秀的全职employer工作繁重、生活难以平衡。于是现有人提出sharing employee的想法，使得员工能够充分发挥灵活工作的优势，并且不必长时间从事一项单一劳动。
2017年5月新SAT亚太考试真题之写作
这次的写作文章 How To Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prizes 讨论的是社会类的话题，选自2013年的 TIME 。文章主要讨论了女性科学家们在科学研究方面遭遇的各种压力和困难，呼吁大学和政府应该对改善女性学者的科研环境做出更多的努力。文章的风格比较平实，结构非常清晰，在修辞手法方面涉猎不多，重点集中在对逻辑和论据的分析方面。
标题：How To Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prizes
作者：By Meredith Wadman Oct. 24, 2013 Time
1. The mother of tweens was folding laundry at 5 a.m. before going to an early spinning class when the phone rang. It was October 2009 and Carol Greider, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University, picked up and heard a voice from Stockholm. She had won that year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.
2. Unfortunately, Greider remains a rarity in the pantheon of Nobel scientists. And that’s partly because we haven’t done enough to help young female scientists balance the demands of academic research with the pull of family responsibility. That needs to change.
3. Admittedly, today’s situation is better than it was when Greider entered grad school in the early 80s, never mind in the dark days of the preceding decades. Then, when women were scarcely to be found at undergraduate lab benches, the results in the rarefied reaches of Stockholm couldn’t help but be dismal. Since the awards were launched in 1901, two physics laureates have been women: Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert Mayer in1963. In chemistry,four of the 165 winners have been women. (Marie Curie was one of them, in 1911;she is the only woman to have won two Nobels.) Women have won 5 percent of the coveted awards in physiology or medicine. And it was 2009 before Elinor Ostrom, of Indiana University and Arizona State University, became the first-ever female laureate in economics.
4. In fact, 2009 was something of a banner year for women — Greider shared her award with her mentor, Elizabeth Blackburn, of the University of California at San Francisco; and Israel’s Ada Yonath shared the prize in chemistry. Since then, men have continued to sweep the science awards.
To be a female Nobel winner has not only required brilliance, but also preternatural determination in the face of cultural, social and political obstacles. The Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini secretly conducted experiments in her bedroom in Mussolini’s Italy. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the Parisian who co-discovered the AIDS virus – and whose father thought a women’s place was in the home –was in the lab on her wedding day. Her fiancé had to call her to remind her to turn up at the ceremony. Barbara McClintock, the U.S.geneticist who won the prize in 1983, was nearly prevented from attending college by her mother. She was afraid higher education would make her daughter unmarriageable.
5. All of this was decades ago, before recent campaigns to encourage more young women to choose STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers;and, in the US, before the Civil Rights Act, affirmative action and Title IX.What’s the excuse in 2013?
6. What, specifically, should institutions do to offer such support?Universities can make meaningful policy changes, such as allowing women with young children to stop the tenure clock for a period of time — an option available at some but not all academic centers. They should ensure that young female scientists have dedicated, top-notch mentors. And they can guarantee paid maternity land parental leave—something that’s woefully lacking for junior scientists at most U.S. institutions.
7. Federal agencies also have a role to play. Big funders, led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have already implemented policies like no-cost grant extensions that allow scientists with family obligations extra time to complete a project, and others that allow fellowship periods to be extended or deferred for childcare purposes. But agencies can, and should, do more. One task the government is especially suited to is longitudinal data collection on those family-friendly policies. Such data isn’t being collected systematically,and without it we can’t know what policy changes are working, and which ones aren’t.
8. If we want top-drawer women to stay in science careers — and this country, beset by daunting, and growing, global science competition, could certainly use them – institutions of all stripes need to show a far more serious commitment to supporting them.
9. To put it another way, if we want to see more women celebrating in Stockholm, we should strive to build a world in which the likes of Carol Greider are hardly ever to be found folding the laundry at 5 in the morning.
Meredith Wad man is a Future Tense Fellow at New America and an Oxford-educated physician. This article was written for the New America Foundation’s Weekly Wonk. The views expressed are solely her own.
2017年5月新SAT亚太考试真题之阅读
第一篇文章
文学作品，选自阿米德・乔杜(Amit Chaudhuri)的 A Strange and Sublime Address，文章从一个小孩的视角，讲述在一个印度家庭中传统的生活习俗和现代文化之间的冲突。
第二篇文章
社会科学，选自 Nicholas Epley 的 Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want，Paperback January 6, 2015
文章讲述人们的自我认知和他人认知之间是否对等，通过实验来证明人们大概能够明白别人对自己的看法，但不一定准确。
第三篇文章
自然科学，主要涉及天文学主题，阅读难度稍大
讲谷神星(Ceres)作为一颗矮行星(dwarf planet)的起源，以及科学家对于这颗行星的质疑，以及它的形成的原因。文章涉及到一些天文学词汇，难度略大。
第四篇文章
，这次的历史文章依然是老生常谈，讨论关于民主，权利，平等的话题。第一篇文章认为应该建立统一的联邦政府，而第二篇文章则反对这一立场。
第五篇文章
自然科学，选自 A Tangled Tale of Plant Evolution 。
文章讲述在海藻中发现的木质素 (Lingin)这种物质能够增强植物的韧性，主要描述了发现这种物质的过程。
2017年5月新SAT亚太考试真题之数学
这次的数学部分依然比较常规，对于大部分大陆考生而言没有太大难度。考试涉及到了函数，概率，数据分析，几何等基本内容。在文字的理解和解题难度方面，只有个别的小难点。