SAT阅读：一词多义很常见，怎么找到突破口

SAT阅读：一词多义很常见，怎么找到突破口

SAT考试对词汇量的要求是较高的，不仅要大量的词汇储备，宝宝们还需要考虑在特定场景中不同词汇的特殊用法。下面，我们就通过这道例题，来看看SAT是怎么考词汇的吧。每个人的情况不同，也可以登录文都国际教育官网进行一对一的咨询。

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere
occasional interest may bedissolved at pleasure—but the state ought not to be
considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper
and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up
for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the
parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a
partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a
temporary and perishable nature. It is apartnership in all science; a
partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection
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34. As used in line 22, “low” most nearly means
A) petty.
B) weak.
C) inadequate.
D) depleted.
这道题问的是文章中的"low"这个词，这个词大家很熟悉这个词也很简单，常见的意思是“低的”，这个意思放在原文中some other such low
concern显然是不对的。这样我们就要回到原文中去看看在语境中这个词是什么意思。作者是在说 “subordinate contracts”
只不过是在贸易货物上达成的商业协议，然而国家并不仅仅是 “a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and
coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern”, 而应该是 “a partnership
in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in
all perfection”。从结构可以看出， “such low concern” 应该和 “all science”, “ all art”, “
every virtue”, “all perfection” 是对比关系。作者用“all”和“every”
这样的措辞强调的是完整的、成体系的、大规模的含义，那题干中的 “low” 就应该是与之相反的含义。
A选项中的petty，有 “琐碎的、小规模的” 含义，刚好和 “all science”, “ all art”, “ every virtue”,
“all perfection” 这些成体系的、大规模的含义形成对比。因此A选项为答案。
从上面和大家讲到的例题，我们很明显可以看出新SAT阅读词汇题的考察形式，文章中的词汇或许是大家常见的简单词汇，但是在结合语境和上下文可能就完全是另外一个意思了。因此，小编在这里还是要和大家强调一遍：在做新SAT词汇题的时候，语境一定要重视。