SSAT试题
SSAT考试真题示例
Writing Sample
Questions: 1 (essay response)
Time: 25 minutes
What is measured? Your essay will be used by admission officers to assess your writing skills. The exercise is not scored by SSAT, but a copy of your essay is forwarded to each school you request as a score recipient.
Directions: Read the following topic carefully. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and organize your thoughts before you begin writing. Use the scratch paper and pen provided. Be sure that your handwriting is legible and that you stay within the lines and margins.
Sample Topic: It is better to be safe than sorry.
Assignment: Do you agree or disagree with the topic statement?
Support your position with one or two specific examples from personal experience, the experience of others, current events, history, or literature.
Multiple-choice Test
Each question is followed by five answer choices. After you have selected your answer, find the row on the answer sheet numbered the same as the question, and fill in the circle with the same letter as your answer. Each question has only one correct answer.
Reading Comprehension
Questions: 40 (multiple-choice), based on 6-7 reading passages
Time: 40 minutes
What is measured? Your ability to read quickly and to understand what you read.
Directions: Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions (1-3) about it. For each question, decide on the basis of the passage which one of the choices best answers the question.
We had had a consuming desire to see a pony rider, but somehow or other all that passed us streaked by in the night, and so we heard only a whiz and a hail, and the swift phantom was gone.
But now the driver exclaims, "Here he comes!" Every neck is stretched and every eye strained.
Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky. Soon it becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling, sweeping nearer and nearer, and the flutter of hoofs comes faintly to the ear. Another instant a whoop and hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!
1. At the driver's call, the people became more
disappointed
eager
frightened
puzzled
hysterical
2. The people waiting to see the pony rider were most probably
at a hotel
on a grandstand
on a stagecoach
at a farm
in a theater
3. The land where the people were watching was
flat and treeless
hilly and rocky
desert-like
farmland
cut by deep crevasses
Quantitative (MATH)
Questions: 50 (multiple-choice), in two sections
Time: 30 minutes per section (60 minutes total)
What is measured? Your knowledge of algebra and quantitative concepts.
Directions: Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the space provided (there will be space for scratchwork in your test booklet). Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which is best.
4. According to the graph, who owns the most CD's?
Bob Cheryl Linda Marion Mike
5. If 5 + 9 + __ = 6 + 8 + 1, then __ =
1 5 6 8 9
6. If 3/4 of a number is 48, then 1/4 of the same number is
12 16 24 144 192
7. What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle if one side of the triangle has the same length as the side of a square with an area of 25?
30 20 15 10 5
Verbal
Questions: 60 (30 Synonym, 30 Analogy)
Time: 30 minutes
What is measured? The synonym questions test your vocabulary, and the analogy questions measure your ability to relate ideas to each other logically.
Directions: Each of the following questions (16-20) consists of one word followed by five words or phrases. You are to select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.
8.fling
rotate hurl arouse pound defy
9. rountine
legal directed unnecessary usual informative
10. prologue
pretense extension introduction
humorous play nonessential part
11. manipulate
release handle stretch make worse keep apart
12.adroit
clever retentive cooperative unhindered arid
Directions: The following questions (21-25) ask you to find relationships between words. For each question, select the answer choice that best completes the meaning of the sentence.
13. Sapling is to tree as cub is to
moose pine goat cedar bear
14. Frame is to building as
hair is to head skull is to jaw skeleton is to body
finger is to hand bone is to marrow
15. Meandering is to river as
winding is to road wandering is to wave scudding is to cloud
chugging is to train rolling is to ship
1. AGENDA
(A) receipt
(B) agent
(C) combination
(D) correspondence
(E) schedule
2. CREDIBLE
(A) believable
(B) untrue
(C) correct
(D) suitable
(E) fortunate
3. PLACID
(A) explosive
(B) quiet
(C) public
(D) lenient
(E) crystalline
4. INTERVENE
(A) induce
(B) invert
(C) interfere
(D) solve
(E) intermediary
5. MUNDANE
(A) stupid
(B) extraordinary
(C) weekly
(D) immense
(E) common
6. None is to little as never is to
(A) nothing
(B) infrequently
(C) negative
(D) much
(E) often
7. Receive is to admit as settle is to
(A) resist
(B) anger
(C) remain
(D) adjust
(E) mediate
8. Dishonesty is to distrust as
(A) violin is to bow
(B) hand is to paper
(C) money is to thief
(D) strange is to odd
(E) carelessness is to accident
9. Sociologist is to group as
(A) psychologist is to individual
(B) doctor is to nurse
(C) children is to pediatrician
(D) biologist is to frog
(E) mathematician is to algebra
10. Generous is to frugal as
(A) wasteful is to squander
(B) philanthropist is to miser
(C) tasteful is to garish
(D) gratify is to desire
(E) important is to nonessential
1.
(A) 1.750
(B) 1.854
(C) 1.9
(D) 2.25
(E) 2.35
2. Evaluate:
(A) 1 billion
(B) 1 million
(C) 1,000
(D) 100
(E) 13
3. 71.4 × 98.2 =
(A) 4,011.38
(B) 5,321.48
(C) 6,921.38
(D) 7,011.48
(E) 8,231.48
4. =
(A) 9
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E) 23
5. (.25)2 =
(A) .00625
(B) .0625
(C) .625
(D) 1.625
(E) 16.25
Back in the seventeenth century,
when Abraham Rycken owned it,
Rikers Island was a tiny spit of land
in the East River. It became part
of New York City in the 1890s and
was used as a convenient place to
deposit the rock and soil debris of
subway construction. Later, the island
became the end of the line for
the discards of city households, in a
landfill operation that went on until
Rikers Island reached its present size
of 400 acres.
Robert Moses, then New York’s
Park Commissioner, was looking for
ways to supply city parks with shade
trees and eliminate the expense of
buying them from commercial nurseries.
He noted that weeds grew prodigiously
in the landfill, thought that
trees and plants might do the same,
and arranged to clear a few acres for
a trial planting. In 1944, the first 287
shrubs and trees were transplanted
from the fledgling nursery to the city’s
parks. The nursery now covers some
115 acres of the island, and several
hundred thousand of its shrubs and
trees have been planted along city
streets, in parks, around housing
projects, and around the malls and
paths of the United Nations.
1. To obtain plantings for New York City,
authorities
(A) buy them from the United
Nations.
(B) purchase them from commercial
nurseries.
(C) transplant them from city-owned
property.
(D) buy them from Robert Moses.
(E) grow them in Central Park.
2. Rikers Island is currently
(A) 115 acres in area.
(B) a landfill operation.
(C) owned by Abraham Rycken.
(D) 400 acres in area.
(E) a dumping ground for subway
debris.
3. The soil of the island
(A) is volcanic.
(B) was enriched by discarded
rubbish.
(C) was brought in from commercial
nurseries.
(D) is a combination of mud and
rock.
(E) was brought in on subways.
4. The first plantings were taken from
Rikers Island
(A) a decade ago.
(B) about 1890.
(C) in the seventeenth century.
(D) quite recently.
(E) in 1944.