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SAT阅读理解题型写作目的题 （Main Purpose Questions）问题经常以以下形式出现：The primary purpose of the passage is to……Both passages are primarily concerned with the……The passage as a whole serves primarily to……例 1I had grown up in the United States virtually without relatives, which, in my intense desire to assimilate, was quite all right with me. But this attitude dissolved when I walked into that apartment in Beijing. I realized then that my extended family is not just a collection of accidental alliances but a living body, an entity that will welcome me for being simply who I am: the daughter of my mother, the niece of my aunts and uncles. We had never before seen each other but, in that moment, we shared a sense of connection and loyalty unlike anything I had previously experienced.Question: The primary purpose of the passage is todescribe the author’s travels to Beijingreveal how lonely the author often feltprovide examples of the author’s fondness for her relativesconvey the author’s sudden awareness of the importance of familyillustrate the closeness that existed among the author’s mother, aunts, and uncles. 例2 This passage is adapted from a 2003 novel about a character named Gogol Ganguli, the American-born son of Indian immigrants. Just before leaving home for college, Gogol changed his name to Nikhil. Question: Taken as a whole, the passage is best described as a portrayal of two parents’ acceptance of their son’s leaving homean immigrant family’s adjustment to new surroundingsthe stimulating possibilities open to a college studenta young man’s struggle to define himselfa young man’s success at achieving independence例3 A century ago, opponents of women’s suffrage in the United States scoffed at the notion that extending the vote to women would make any difference. “Women will vote with their husband” was the commonly accepted wisdom. This was an argument made in the absence of evidence, as women did not yet have the vote. Ever since women won the vote, researchers have been keepin