英语专业八级阅读与SAT阅读比较
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专八的阅读摘选
At the age of 16,Lee Hyuk Joon's life is a living hell.The South Korean 10th grader gets up at 6 in the morning to go to school,and studies most of the day until returning home at 6 p.m.After dinner,it's time to hit the books again—at one of Seoul's many so-called cram schools.Lee gets back home at 1 in the morning,sleeps less than five hours,then repeats the routine—five days a week.It's a grueling schedule,but Lee worries that it may not be good enough to get him into a top university.Some of his classmates study even harder.
SAT的阅读摘选
As the detective ceases to be impenetrable and infallibleand becomes a person touched with feeling for our infirmi-ties,so the rigid technique of the art necessarily expands alittle.In its severest form,the detective story is a pure andanalytical exercise and,as such,may be a highly finished work of art,within its highly artificial limits.There is onerespect,at least,in which the detective story has an advan-tage over every other kind of novel.It possesses an Aristo-telian perfection of beginning,middle,and end.A definiteand single problem is set,worked out,and solved; its conclusion is not arbitrarily conditioned by marriage ordeath.It has the rounded (though limited) perfection of a triolet.The farther it escapes from pure analysis,the moredifficulty it has in achieving artistic unity