美国中考：SSAT阅读考试真题及答案

　　简单的说，SSAT考试其实就是美国的中考，如果中国中学生想申请去美国高中留学的话，SSAT考试可是必考的一项，而阅读也是SSAT考试中的必考部分，以下就是一篇SSAT阅读真题，并附上正确答案。

　　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 inthe quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king'sfavor. After he was dismissed from service to the king of

　　Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V ofSpain.

　　A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the NewWorld west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the landeast of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that theEast Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519,Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a yearlater, one of these ships was exploring the topography of SouthAmerica in search of a water route across the continent. This shipsank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southernpeninsula of South America. Finally they found the passage theysought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this

　　passage the Strait of All Saints, but today we know it as the Straitof Magellan.

　　One ship deserted while in this passage and returned toSpain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first

　　panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed themeridian 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 ofstarvation and disease.

　　Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in thePhilippines and was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship andseventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigatorElcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain andthus prove once and for all that the world is round, with noprecipice at the edge.

　　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 hebecame 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 andPortugal according to their location on one side or the other ofan imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwichthat 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 Americafor 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 calledthe 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

　　答案：

　　1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5.C,6 B 7A

　　以上就是我们为大家整理的SSAT阅读考试真题及答案，通过真题来进行SSAT考试实战演练对于考试能力的提升还是比较明显的，希望对即将参加SSAT考试的同学们有所帮助。