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　　現在8月北美SAT考試已經告一段落，讓我們回顧一下送考團和考情速遞在前線的亮點。 　　

　　

　　1.送考團：NYO助力 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　派出測試小組的學生在新教室(NYO)度過了測試前最后幾天的緊張準備時間。這幾天除了SAT模考、講解等日常操作，不得不提的還有NYO老師的熱情好客，他們還為同學們準備了額外福利！ 　　

　　

　　福利一：每個學生都有一張新的班級賀卡。 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　福利二：, NYO的中外教師為學生提供額外的膳食，以解釋申請，課外活動，文件等。 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　2.送考團：考場實錄 　　

　　

　　這個團的學生選擇的考場，基本上離NYO 20-30分鐘車程。考試日之前，送考的老師也提前逐一去檢查考場，確保考試日順利送考。考試的時候也拍了一些考場的照片，供大家參考。 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　TEANECK HIGH SCHOOL 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　TEANECK HIGH SCHOOL 　　

　　

　　 　　

　　

　　

　　

SOUTH RIVER

　　

HIGH SCHOOL

　　

SOUTH RIVER是一個只有一幢樓的小學校，但考試當天考生云集。

　　

　　

INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

　　

　　

同學們在CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL附近的合影

　　

　　

SECAUCUS HIGH SCHOOL

　　

3. 考情速遞

　　

由于去年8月北美考試重復了一份亞洲的舊題，有人猜測今年8月是不是也會出現同樣的情況。此次考試結束后，有傳聞說此次考試重復了1906北美考試多張卷子中的一套，但這套卷子很少在市面上流通，也無法驗證。對于大部分考生而言，這次考試所面對的是一份新卷子，所以大家無需過度擔心公平性受到影響。

　　

從考場出來以后，同學們反饋最多的就是：加試。每位同學加試的科目各不相同，但時間都是20分鐘。據了解，有加試一篇閱讀16題，有加試數學15題（其中3道填空題），還有加試語法一篇18題的。有同學反映加試的閱讀比前面的篇章要簡單，但覺得體裁有些奇怪，不同于平時常見的類型。

　　

此次考試閱讀部分稍難，尤其是小說和歷史文獻。小說涉及比較細膩的心理描寫，不易讀懂。這次的歷史文獻是雙篇比較，選取了1790s的關于美國外交問題的篇章，語言和背景知識層面都會有一定難度。語法部分同學們也反映稍難，且發現不同同學拿到的卷子篇章順序是不一樣的，甚至有反饋題也不一樣。數學及寫作部分則難度適中。（歡迎參加了8月考試的同學們留言補充考試情況）

　　

拿到寫作考試原文之后，我們的寫作老師也迅速進行了分析，供大家參考。

　　

　　

在2019年3月亞洲卷出現了與OG樣題“Let there be dark”非常類似的“Let there be less light”后，2019年8月最新一次北美SAT考試中，作文題又重現了2016年10月亞洲卷中出現過的“保護象牙”的話題。本次考題來自Godfrey Harris “How to save both elephants and the ivory trade”，整體難度適中，考察的修辭也都在平時課上常講的范圍。

　　

以下是考題原文：

　　

How to save both elephants and the ivory trade

　　

Godfrey Harris

　　

1.Because of British currency restrictions enacted just before World War II, my father had to come up with an innovative way of getting his cash out of England when, fearing a German invasion, we immigrated to the United States. He settled on silver. Before leaving, he purchased all the Georgian silver objects he could find, with the idea of selling them once the family reached America.

　　

2.A few months after we arrived, he opened the Harris English Silver Co. in Manhattan. While wartime rationing made many everyday items difficult to obtain, the demands of holidays, birthdays and anniversaries still required special gifts. Antique silver answered that need for many New Yorkers.

　　

3. By 1944 my father had made more than enough to move the family to California, where he sold most of the remainder of his original inventory. Things were going so well that he decided to take a buying trip to England in 1948, and he took me along as his 11-year-old assistant. At each antique shop we visited, he would slowly survey the goods on display, identify the pieces of particular interest, and then have all the items brought together in one spot where he could inspect them. I was told to pick out anything that caught my eye and bring those pieces, too, to the central collection point.

　　

4.I soon found that the pieces I gravitated to ― boxes, doll house furnishings, knife rests, small carvings, writing implements, hand tools and the like ― tended to have one thing in common: They were nearly all made of ivory.

　　

5.When the shipment from that buying trip reached Los Angeles, my father gave me most of the items I had selected, and that was the start of my ivory collection. After becoming a U.S. diplomat, I added to these original items during trips abroad. And I soon became fascinated by the different uses to which ivory has been put ― some practical, because of the material’s special properties, and some decorative, because of its unusual beauty.

　　

6.Ivory pieces, like other artistic expressions, reflect the time and cultures that produced them. That’s one of the main reasons people collect artifacts of any sort: to preserve the best examples of cultural expression.

　　

7.Today, however, ivory collections like mine ― and ivory collectors themselves ― are being vilified. The current debate in Washington over ivory policy has far less to do with protecting elephants than it does with satisfying the assumptions of animal rights groups, making things simple for government officials and accommodating the special wants of hunters and the special needs of musicians and museum curators. Collectors have little voice in the debate, and their collections have been likened to blood diamonds or denigrated as vanity indulgences. Any harm that American collectors suffer from the new regulations has been dismissed by Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as collateral damage for the greater good of saving elephants.

　　

8.Ashe has issued an order that virtually eliminates all trade and movement in the United States of objects made from or with ivory ― no matter their origin, age or provenance ― by requiring unimpeachable, detailed documentation on the ivory contained in a piece. To buy, trade or sell such pieces, collectors must have original bills of sale or repair invoices or proof of the year of importation into the United States. No collector and very few antique dealers can produce that kind of documentation, especially since none of it was required at the time most of the pieces were imported or purchased. How many treasures inherited from a relative or given as gifts come with written proof of where they came from or how they got here?

　　

9.These draconian new rules have not been promulgated casually. Ashe believes that virtually ending all trade in African ivory in the United States ― thus sending a message that ivory is valueless ― is the best way to protect African elephants from the ravishes of poachers.

　　

10.But that’s unrealistic and unproven. Today’s poaching problem has its roots in East Asia, where there is still a strong demand for and an active trade in new ivory objects. Demonizing older ivory objects to discourage possession of newer versions of similar items will not bring back the mammoths or save modern elephants from the economic forces that drive poachers.

　　

11.Indeed, the International Ivory Society, on whose advisory board I sit, believes that taking valuable ivory objects out of circulation will only increase the market price for raw ivory abroad and put elephants in even more danger than at the present.

　　

12. Everyone is rightly concerned with the plight of African elephants and the horrors that poachers are inflicting on herds across the continent. All of us want to find the right solution to stabilize elephant populations in Africa through sound economic and conservation policies. But the answer must not come at the expense of collectors who play such an important role in preserving important, interesting and revelatory objects in our cultural history.

　　

分析：

　　

本次作文可以展開的點相對比較明顯。

　　

首先文章的1-6段，Harris詳細敘述了自己的童年經歷，他用舉例example的方式為讀者講述了自己是如何成為一名象牙收集者的。通過這些敘述，讀者明白了象牙制品收集者與其他任何藝術品的收集者并無本質區別，他們也只是出于對象牙制品的喜愛，他們也只想preserve the best examples of cultural expression。明確象牙收集者無惡意的收集初衷，Harris為下文defend象牙收集者，抨擊Dan Ashe所提出政策的不合理性做好了鋪墊。

　　

緊接著文章的7、8兩段詳細介紹了文章的寫作原因和目的。很多象牙制品收集者（包括作者本人）都被大家誤解著，而現行的象牙保護政策也完全忽視了這個群體的利益。Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dan Ashe提出了一個議案，他想完全禁止象牙制品的交易及運輸，除非收集者能夠提供該制品最初的買賣賬單或維修發票。這一議案顯然是及其不合理的，這一要求對許多收藏者而言也著實強人所難，因為很多人的藏品歷史太久，誰能一直保留當初的賬單或發票呢？同時，很多象牙制品都是家族傳承的古董或者朋友給予的禮物，要證明它的源頭實在太難。讀到這里，讀者也就完全明白了Ash想推行的政策切實威脅到了無辜的象牙制品收集者，對他們心生同情。這個部分可以通過reasoning或者rhetorical question來寫。

　　

最后，文章的9-11段運用了我們非常熟悉的clarification。Ash認為這個政策能通過減少象牙流通來削減象牙價格，以達到減少偷獵并最終保護大象的目的。然而作者指出這一想法是unrealistic and unproven。他告訴讀者這個regulation并沒有attack the root of the problem，相反這會讓象牙制品因稀缺而更加值錢，價格飆升只會讓更多人鋌而走險偷獵大象，直接駁斥這一政策的合理性。