1、一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 12012 年 SSAT 考试官方样题（青春版）Writing SectionDirections: Read the following topic carefully. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and organize your thoughts before you begin writing. Use the scratch paper and pen provided. Be sure that your handwriting is legible and that yo
2、u stay within the lines and margins.Sample Topic: You cannot pass the finish line unless you start the race.Assignment: Do you agree or disagree with the topic statement?Support your position with one or two specific examples from personal experience, the experience of others, current events, histor
3、y, or literature.Verbal Section: SynonymDirections: Each of the following questions consists of one word followed by five words (or phrases). You must select the word (or phrase) whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.1. JOCKEY(A) Horse(B) Race(C) Manoeuvre(D) Lie(E) Mend2. MERGE(A)
4、 Mix(B) Eradicate(C) Distinguish(D) Blend(E) Separate3. PRIMOGENITOR(A) Ancestor(B) Late-comer一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 2(C) Neighbour(D) Colleague(E) PerfectionistVerbal Section: AnalogiesDirections: Each of the following analogies consists of a phrase that links two words in a logical fashion. Deter
5、mine the logical link between the words and select an answer choice that reflects the logical relationship evident in the question.4. Wheel is to car as(A) Paddle is to canoe(B) Paint is to wall(C) Ball is to bat(D) Money is to wallet(E) Bear is to cave5. Plum is to prune as(A) Apple is to juice(B)
6、Blood is to circulation(C) Flower is to bud(D) Grape is to raisin(E) Saddle is to horse6. Asterisk is to aspiration as(A) Baby is to pram(B) Watermelon is to weary(C) Shadow is to moon(D) Castle is to bridge(E) Harmony is to discordQuantitative IDirections: Each of the following problems contains fi
7、ve possible answer choices. Solve the problem and choose the answer choice that is the best solution to the problem.7. If x + 6 = 12, what is x?(A) 4一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 3(B) 5 (C) 6(D) 7(E) 88. If a number, x, is doubled and five is subtracted from that product, which of the following best repre
8、sents the final result?(A) x(B) 2x (C) 5 - 2x(D) 2x - 5(E) 5(x - 2)9. Solve the following equation: 3-214=(A) -5(B) -4 (C) 0(D) 2.5(E) It is not possible to solve this equation.Quantitative IIDirections: Each of the following problems contains five possible answer choices. Solve the problem and choo
9、se the answer choice that is the best solution to the problem.10. Marta eats 2 apples every 20 minutes. How many apples will she eat in one hour?(A) 2(B) 3(C) 4(D) 5(E) 611. Kajsa had 15 close friends in Sweden. But after she moved to China, only 4 of her friends sent her letters to say “Hello”. How
10、 many friends failed to send Kajsa letters?(A) 4(B) 9 (C) 11(D) 19(E) The answer cannot be determined from the information provided.一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 412. Jonathan is taller than Silvia. Silvia is shorter than Norma. Norma is taller than Grace but shorter than Jonathan. Grace is the same heigh
11、t as Silvia. Who is the tallest person?(A) Grace(B) Jonathan(C) Norma(D) Silvia(E) The answer cannot be determined from the information provided.Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. For each question, use the information provided in
12、the passage to select the best possible answer.Example:Can you imagine shoppers lining up just to buy ballpoint pens? It happened at Gimbels Department Store in New York City in October 1945. Gimbels sold out its entire stock of 10,000 pens on the very first day ballpoint pens were sold commercially
13、 anywhere in the United States. Before 1945, most people wrote with fountain pens. The biggest problem with a fountain pen is that it has to be filled, sometimes more than once a day. The ballpoint pen solved this problem. However, it took nearly 60 years for inventors to get it to work properly. In
14、 a ballpoint pen, the writing tip is a tiny ball that rolls as you write. Part of the ball is inside the pen and picks up ink from the ink supply. As the ball rolls, the ink-covered part rolls outside. The ink then flows from the ball to the paper you are writing on.Inventors had been working on bal
15、lpoint pens since 1888 when John Loud, an American leather tanner, patented a marking pen with a roller ball tip. Louds rolling ball pen was never produced, nor were any of the other 350 patents for ball-type pens issued over the next 50 years. The major problem with all these pens was the ink. If t
16、he ink was too watery, the pens would leak. If the ink was too thick, it would harden inside the pen. Depending on the temperature, the ink would sometimes do both. Ballpoint pens hadanother problem, too. Because they depended on gravity to carry the ink down to the rolling ball at the bottom of the
17、 pen, ballpoints had to be held straight up, but most 一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 5people tilt a pen when they write. Two Hungarian brothers, George and Ladislas Biro, found the solution to both problems. Working as a journalist, Georg Biro noticed that newspaper ink dried quickly, leaving the paper smu
18、dge-free. This gave him the idea to use this syrupy ink for pens. However, the thicker ink would not flow from a regular metal tip, so he fitted his pen with a ball bearing that acted like a sponge. The roller ball soaked up ink from the tube inside the pen. Now the pen could be held at an angle.The
19、 Biro brothers filed a patent for their ballpoint pen in Paris in 1938, just after they escaped the Nazi regime in Hungary. They emigrated to Argentina and established a successful business selling pens that could “write for a year without refilling.” In 1945, Milton Reynolds, a Chicago businessman,
20、 discovered the Biro brothers invention while vacationing in Argentina. Ignoring patent rights, Reynolds copied the Biro design and inless than four months the Reynolds Pen Company was manufacturing millions of ballpoint pens. Reynolds signed a deal with Gimbels, making it the first retail store in
21、America to sell his pens. Gimbels took out a full-page ad in The New York Times to advertise the “fantastic . . . miraculous . . . guaranteed” new pens for $12.50. Five thousand people crowded the sidewalk before the store opened the next day, and Gimbels sold all 10,000 pens before the end of the d
22、ay. Within a few years, the pen that took over 50 years to reach the market would become the most used pen in the world.13. Which of the following is the best title for this selection?(A) A Short History of the Ballpoint Pen(B) The Biro Brothers: Millions of Dollars from Millions of Pens(C) Ballpoin
23、t Pens Change Writing Habits around the World(D) Miraculous Writing Tool Sweeps the Nation(E) How Gimbels Sold Thousands of Ballpoint Pens14. From the passage you can infer that after 1945(A) fountain pens became cheaper and more reliable(B) people spent more time writing, since they didnt have to r
24、efill their pens(C) people used fewer fountain pens(D) people got used to holding pens straight up when they wrote(E) expensive ballpoint pens became a status symbol15. According to the article, which of the statements is true about the ink usedin newspaper printing compared to the ink used in fount
25、ain pens?(A) It is cheaper. (B) It is thinner. (C) It hardens inside the pen.(D) It dries mores quickly. (E) It smudges more easily.一贝的 SSAT 博客，考生的 SSAT 家园 616. The tone of the passage indicates that the author considers the inventionof the ballpoint pen to be(A) insignificant (B) impressive (C) unf
26、ortunate (D) miraculous (E) disappointing17. In this passage, the term “patent” refers to(A) a ballpoint pen (B) a fountain pen (C) John Louds marking pen(D) a license or exclusive right for an invention(E) a pen that could write for a year without refilling18. Which of the following best describes
27、the relationship of the first paragraph to the passage as a whole?(A) The 1st paragraph presents an interesting anecdote that introduces the topic of the selection.(B) The 1st paragraph begins a chronological look at the development of the ballpoint pen.(C) The 1st paragraph identifies key developments that are explained in the rest of the selection.(D) The 1st paragraph presents a theory about ballpoint pens that is proved by the rest of the selection.(E) The 1st paragraph criticizes early attempts at the development of the ballpoint pen.
