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整体上来讲，2024年的机考难度是比2023年高的，尤其是hard模式下的module 2部分。但这有一个很重要的前提，就是不考虑重题的情况下。因为再难的题目，只要提前做过了，难度就会大打折扣。

整体上，机考SAT阅读的难度提升还是从以下几个方面实现：

1.词汇

词汇方面主要是对词汇量提出了更高的要求，这点在是词汇题的选项中体现的尤为明显，出现了类似“spurious”“sanguine”“recalcitrant”“demarcate”“harbinger”这种SAT较少见GRE/GMAT较常见的词汇。

除了词汇题之外，常规的阅读理解题中的难词也以比较“扎眼”的方式出现。也就是说，整篇文章整体的词汇难度是不高的，但是突然会出现一个比较难的单词，而且这个单词会一定程度上影响对于文本的理解。比如2024年10月亚太的一段文本：

Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith is famed for his metaphor of the invisible hand, which he putatively used to illustrate a robust model of how individuals produce aggregate benefits by pursuing their own economic interests. Note "putatively": as Gavin Kennedy has shown, Smith deploys this metaphor only once in his economic writings—to make a narrow point about the then-dominant economic theory of mercantilism—and it was largely ignored until some twentieth-century economists eager to secure an intellectual pedigree for their views elevated it to a fully-fledged paradigm.

"putatively"这个词就很“扎眼”，妥妥的GRE难度的词汇了。虽然不认识也可以根据上下文猜一猜，但是一来它会搞心态，二来这个词还是比较重要的，直接认识的话，不管是对于文本的理解还是速度，都有非常大的帮助。

不仅是文本，选项中也会有这样的“词汇刺客”。同样是2024年10月亚太的一道题：

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

A. To convey the speaker's longing for the ocean to impart a sense of inner tranquility

B. To contrast the demands of the speaker's everyday life with the serenity of being rocked to sleep by the ocean

C. To illustrate the increasing intensity of the speaker's desire to escape ongoing hardship by gliding on the ocean

D. To justify the speaker's qualms about being transported by the ocean to a quiet destination

高亮的单词对很多学生来讲，都是蛮有挑战的。

2.长难句

虽然一直以来SAT的文本都不简单，但机考SAT中的长难句确实要比以往要更多了一些，这个和考试的形式变化也是分不开的：通过增加句长来缓冲篇幅变短所带来的难度下降。

经常会出现一个段落其实就2-3句话，其中某一句话占文本一半以上。比如2024年北美11月的这道题：

Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth's research on the fiscal vulnerability of Philip Ⅱ (who ruled not only Spain but other regions including much of Belgium from 1556 to 1598) builds on other studies of European early modern state finance, including Hoffman and Norberg's work on the relationship between state finance and political development. But Drelichman and Voth's unique contribution is their reconstruction of the earliest extant set of annual fiscal records for any sovereign state, which demonstrate that Philip's defaults were caused by short-term liquidity crises, not long-term unsustainable debts.

整个文本就2句话，每句话的信息量都很大

3.文本逻辑

除了以上所讲的在词汇和长难句这两个“语言”层面的难度上升之外，2024年的机考整体上在文本逻辑上的难度也在提升。这点不仅在我们接下来要提到的部分直接考查逻辑的题型上如此，在常规的阅读理解上也是如此，例如2024年6月亚太的一道题：

Thomas Piketty and other historians of capitalism rarely discuss domestic capitalism in Africa before the period of European colonization, implicitly presenting capitalism as external to and imposed on Africa. John Iliffe and other Africanist scholars have shown, however, that in parts of Africa, export-oriented manufacturing, the formalization of individual land ownership, and other features of capitalism predated colonization. One reason for this discrepancy is that historians of capitalism tend to focus on longitudinal economic data drawn from archival records, which do not exist for much of precolonial Africa.

Which statement about Iliffe and other Africanist scholars is best supported by information in the text?

A. They likely differ from historians of capitalism in the methods they use to derive longitudinal economic data from archival records.

B. They likely have a different view about which activities should be considered capitalist in nature than historians of capitalism do.

C. They likely view capitalism as having been more beneficial for Africa than historians of capitalism do.

D. They likely make use of different types of evidence than historians of capitalism typically rely on.

要想做对这道题，不仅要读出前两句话之间的对立关系，还要读出zui后一句话与前文的因果关系，并且基于这些信息之间的“对立”和“因果”的逻辑进行推理，才能得到正确答案。

4.推理题和strengthen/weaken题目难度变化明显

整体上来讲，难度提升zui大的题目还是在改革之后新出现的推理题和strengthen/weaken题上。这两类题目变难的方式就是增加信息量和信息的转换次数，在这个过程中，大多数学生要么是被“绕晕”了，要么就是时间来不及。比如2024年4月的一道推理题：

Although the language of the Olmec civilization, which flourished in southern Mexico circa 1500 BCE-400 BCE, hasn't been identified, it likely belonged to the Mixe-Zoquean family, a group of related languages whose present-day representatives are spoken in an area corresponding to ancient Olmec sites. The family can be subdivided into a Zoque branch, which includes the modern language Chimalapa Zoque, and a Mixe branch, which includes the modern language North Central Mixe. Many words in the Mayan languages—languages spoken in the region but otherwise unrelated to the Mixe-Zoquean family—are Mixe-Zoquean in origin and were likely borrowed during the period when the Olmecs dominated the entire region. Tellingly, these words derive from the Zoque branch, suggesting that ________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A. the language of the Olmec civilization was likely the founding language of the family that includes Chimalapa Zoque and North Central Mixe.

B. Chimalapa Zoque and other languages in the Zoque branch weren't supplanted by languages in the Mixe branch until after 400 BCE.

C. Chimalapa Zoque is more likely to have evolved from the language of the Olmec civilization than North Central Mixe is.

D. the language of the Olmec civilization made contributions not only to the vocabulary of the Mayan languages but also to the vocabulary of North Central Mixe and other languages in the Mixe branch.

一小段文本中提到了五种不同的语言及其之间的关系，并根据这个关系进行推理。而且出题人会故意选取一些奇怪的专业名词来增加难度，很多学生在这个过程中会感到一片混乱，理不清楚，在时间紧张的情况下就更加糟糕了

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