我们知道SSAT考试是申请美国优质私立中学的必备要求（但并未严格限制分数标准），由于该考试以一年为周期，且每年只安排8次考试，如果考生计划在来年秋季正常入学，最好尽早考出SSAT成绩，以免分数不理想，还可以继续复习准备，多次报考。
无论报名参加哪种考试，预留备考时间是必需，通常情况下，什么样的备考方法最直接且有效？答：以考试真题为范本进行练习。的确，结合我们自身经验，备考少不了“搜集真题、模拟演练”两大环节。而本文将分析“如何备考SSAT考试”，也同样会从考试真题入手，结合杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师的教学经验进行叙述。
SSAT考试真题最重要的作用是帮助考生熟悉考试题型，例如阅读理解部分文章篇幅长短、文后一般设置几道题目、从哪些角度来设问？写作题目要求写哪种文体？数学计算题高频考点等。基于SSAT考试真题，考生可以对试卷设置及答题时间有较为清晰的认识，做到胸有成竹，有助于减轻考试压力。
此外，在多次练习SSAT真题过程中，考生还可以总结常考词汇、加深记忆；发现自己答题薄弱环节（例如数学基本概念不清晰、阅读速度太慢、写作没有思路等），并且通过后期参加SSAT考试培训，有针对性地提升英语能力，最终实现整体成绩的提高。
既然SSAT考试真题如此重要，我们可以从哪里获取呢？杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师首先建议大家通过官网渠道，因为考试官方已提供一部分考试样题（PDF版本），但是终归数量有限。除官网外，考生还可以详询当地SSAT考试培训机构的辅导课程，以杭州优朗教育为例，这里的老师每年都会根据学员反馈汇编SSAT考试真题，从中总结出题规律，并将其运用到实际教学课程中。
杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师发现：为了避免考生刷题应试，向所申请的学校展示“虚假”的英语水平，SSAT考试题库从去年年底开始逐步更新，并将长时间持续。这一现象虽然增加了考生备考难度及时限，但是也间接提升考生的质量。“先苦后甜”，前期的认真备考为未来学习之途打好基础。因此，杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师建议大家在备考SSAT时，摒弃“只刷真题就能提分”的想法，最好跟随老师辅导，充分利用考试真题+系统复习体系备考。下文是培训老师收集的部分SSAT考试写作、阅读真题，从中可以先熟悉一下题型设置，文后已附真题答案及简析。
1、SSAT考试写作真题
SSAT中、高级考试的写作部分通常以议论文为主，初级考试也会涉及其他文体。据培训实情，国内考生大多参加中、高级考试，他们所拿到的写作题目为“二选一”形式：包括创意写作（要求考生发挥想象力，以一句话为基础叙写故事）+议论文（针对某种现象或观点发辫看法）。SSAT考试写作真题如下：
创意写作题目：
1.She realized that she already said too much.
2.That was the first time of its kind.
3.What would it be if they had known it sooner?
4.Honesty is the most important thing of friendship.
5.What are you doing? She said...
6.No matter what he cannot tell this to Avery.
7.They say that these things happen once in your life.
议论文题目：
1.Do you think whether photographs tell the whole story or not and why?”
2.Which kind of pet do you like most and why?
3.What's the most important memory standing out in you mind?
4.你觉得success和achievement的区别和定义是什么？
5.Which century would you like to live in?
6.Modern day technology makes the people closer or farther? Give specific details.
7.What motivates you to study in school?
虽然SSAT考试写作部分不计算分数，但是考试官方会将其寄送给考生所申请美国中学作为录取参考。可以说，SSAT有一个隐形的分数，校招生办老师会从中评估一个学生的英语运用能力，若考生作文过差，势必影响最终录取。
2、SSAT考试阅读真题：
SSAT考试的阅读部分通常包括8篇文章，由于考试时长限制，每篇文章篇幅不长，难度中等。杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师发现阅读部分的题源十分丰富，文学小说、科学发现、社会研究都包含在内，其中，文学小说类文本多取自美国经典文学形象，或名著。下文所列举的SSAT考试阅读真题分别讲述了“吸血鬼”与“麦哲伦科学发现”，来看看文后题目吧。
Text 1
I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
5 Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me 15 wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said,
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!" The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking. So to make sure, I said interrogatively, "Count Dracula?"He bowed in a courtly way as he replied,
"I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest." As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage. He had carried it in before I could forestall him. I protested, but he insisted.
1. It can be inferred that the author regards the wildlife described in the passage primarily with which of the following emotions?
(A) Pleasure (B) Disinterested (C) Sympathy
(D) Curiosity (E) Fear
2.Which of the following best describes the tone that is established in lines 1-4?
(A) Impatience (B) Panic (C) Boredom
(D) Foreboding (E) Curiosity
3. The narrator's first impression of Dracula is that he is
(A) a wealthy landowner (B) an insecure host
(C) a ghostlike figure (D) an elderly, refined gentleman
(E) a sikcly individual
解析：作者对于Dracula的第一印象。这道题目是有不确定性。对于原作熟悉的同学，会第一反应把Vampire的头衔套上，然后轻易地选择Ghostlike figure，像鬼一样的形象。但事实并非如此。初见Dracula，是一个身着黑袍的高瘦男子，“clean shaven”，“antique silver lamp”, “a courtly gesture”, “excellent English”无一不强调着他礼貌高贵的形象。所以初识，是一个谦谦长者的形象。
4. The narrator notes that despite Dracula's apparent age, he
(A) has very smooth hands (B) is also a chauffeur
(C) dresses flamboyantly (D) has a painfully strong handshake
(E) speaks with a loud, clear voice
解析：作者注意到虽然Dreacula的年龄已经很大了，原文中的“holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength” “The strength of the handshake was so much akin”都表现出了老Dracula异于常人的握力，所以D选项即为所选。
5. The narrator questions Dracula because he
(A) wants to ascertain Dracula's identity
(B) wants to avoid imposing on Dracula
(C) is unsure whether he has arrived at the right home
(D) feels challenged by Dracula
(E) does not trust Dracula
解析：作者向Dracula提问是希望确认什么。文中唯一一处“I”提出问题，是要确认对方就是他的委托人“Count Dracula？”该句之前，很明显的有一个So，于是循着so往前找原因，“The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.”我怀疑眼前的伯爵即是之前“我”与之交谈过的车夫。于是有此一问。所以答案选择B，想要确认Dracula的身份。
Text 2
In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they found the passage they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints, but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we now call the International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea, many of Magellan's men died of starvation and disease.
Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.
1.The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
A. Cosmic B. land C. mental
D. common man E. none of the above
2. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
A. Entanglement B. discussion C. negotiation
D. Problems E. none of the above
3. The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on one side or the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends in a ___ direction.
A. north and south B. crosswise C. easterly
D. south east E. north and west
4. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a
passage across the continent.
A. Coastline B. mountain range C. physical features
D. Islands E. none of the above
5. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.
A. Coast B. inland
C. body of land with water on three sides
D. Border E. answer not available
6. The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.
A. Greenwich B. The equator C. Spain
D. Portugal E. Madrid
7. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line.
A. imaginary circle passing through the poles
B. Imaginary line parallel to the equator
C. area
D. land mass
E. answer not found in article
读完这些SSAT写作、阅读真题，结合答案解析，大家有没有总结一些答题技巧呢？其实，关于考试真题，还有不少学员来询问杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师：“老师，因为我刚刚才开始备考，对这个SSAT还不是很熟悉，现在做真题有效果吗？会不会分数很差？”这个问题其实可以概括为“什么时候做SSAT考试真题比较好？”SSAT培训师认为，没有标准答案，因为每位学员的英语基础不同，备考起点亦有高低，所以什么时候做真题因人而异。
对此，杭州优朗SSAT考试培训老师建议大家不要想着什么时候做真题最好，应该多次重复利用真题，例如本周为自己准备一套SSAT考试真题，至少进行一次完整的考试模拟，严格控制考试时长，即使做不完题目，也要按照流程交卷；其余时间可以跟随培训课程进度，分别对阅读、数学、词汇等进行部分真题练习；到了第二周再次进行考试模拟。若学习效率高，可以一个月为周期，对这四周复习的4套SSAT考试真题试卷进行总结。进入备考SSAT后期阶段，考生所掌握的知识及答题技巧大大增加，此时还可以适当增加真题练习频次，一周进行2-3次模拟，练习答题速度及提升准确率。
最后，根据实际教学经验，较少考生会自己备考SSAT考试，因为这是一个艰难的选择：学习计划制定与执行、疑问如何解决、怎么去搜集考试真题、资料等等，尤其对于中学生、备考时间长的考生来说更是如此。因此，杭州优朗SSAT考试培训中心推出“SSAT考试培训课程”，既有一体化教学内容，也有分别针对各部分考试内容的讲解。有关课程内容安排、获取SSAT考试真题、资讯，请向优朗SSAT课程顾问老师咨询！
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