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SAT 2019年3月 北美卷 Reading Test 65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONS Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph). Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. This passage is adapted from Rita Dove, Through the Ivory Gate. ?1992 by Rita Dove. The novel’s main character, Virginia, has just found her old cello while unpacking after a move. She had not played seriously since college. Accompanying the theater troupe’s performances and clowning around as her friend Parker picked out But before she could make her choice, they moved to Arizona. There, the music instruments were stored in a classroom trailer, and when she opened the flute case she nearly winced from the glare bouncing off 30 all that polished silver, those gloating caps and hinges. The clarinet was worse—it looked like an overdesigned walking stick, sounded like a clown laughing, and had reeds that needed to be softened in spit. Line old Beatles songs on the piano didn’t count—that 5 wasn’t real music, music that made you forget where you were, made you forget where your arms and legs ended and luscious sound began. 35 The music teacher shut the cases with a succession of curt clicks. “That leaves the strings,” she sighed, leading the way back through the noonday blaze and into the main building, where the violins, violas, cellos and double basses were housed. She had started playing the cello when she was nine, shortly after the move to Arizona. At the 10 beginning of the school year in Akron, every child in fourth grade had been issued a pre-instrument called a tonette so the teacher could determine who had an “aptitude” for music. Virginia had liked the neatness of the tonette, its modest musical range and