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官网： 免费留学：SSAT阅读真题讲解 　　据360教育集团()介绍：下面我们特别为学生搜集了一些阅读真题，通过真题讲评来看，SSAT的阅读到底考了些什么。以下真题来自2014年4月的考题。 　　第一篇 　　? 阅读材料： 　　Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatuson the premises. I think myself that the thing might be managed with several pails of Aspinall and a broom. Only if one worked in a really sweeping and masterly way, and laid on the colour in great washes, it might drip down again on one‘s face in floods of rich and mingled colour like some strange fairy rain;and that would have its disadvantages… My proposal to paint on it with the bristly end of a broom has been discouraged—never mind by whom; by a person debarred from all political rights—and even my minor proposal to put the other end of the broom into the kitchen fire and turn it to charcoal has not been conceded. Yet I am certain that it was from persons in my position that all the original inspiration came for covering the ceilings of palaces and cathedral swith a riot of fallen angels or victorious gods. I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realized how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be made into an awful imitation of a divine drama that could only be acted in the heavens. 　　? 试题： 　　1.In line 3, “apparatus” means 　　(A) utensils 　　(B) equipment 　　(C) necessities 　　(D) furnishings 　　(E) accoutrement 　　2. It can be inferred that in line 8, “never mind by whom” refers to the author’s 　　(A) wife 　　(B) agent 　　(C) editor 　　(D) landlord 　　(E) roommate 　　3. The author‘s tone in the passage might best be described as 　　(A) realistic 　　(B) idealistic 　　(C) scientific 　　(D) whimsical 　　(E) educational 　　4. “Conceded” (line 10) most likely means 　　(A) lauded 　　(B) granted 　　(C) rejected 　　(D) ridiculed 　　(E) condemned 　　5. His primary purpose of this passage is