在上一篇文章中我们介绍了SAT短篇阅读的解题策略，下面给出SAT短篇阅读真题(选自2009年10月的
Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in each passage and in any introductory material that may be provided.
Passage 1
Question 9-10 are based on the following passage.
Through a friend’s father, Elizabeth found a job at a publishing company. Her parents were puzzled by this. The daughters of their friends were announcing their engagements in the Times, and those who joined the Peace Corps or had gone to graduate school were filed under the heading of “Useful Service,” as if they had entered convents or dedicated themselves to the poor. Elizabeth further puzzled her parents by refusing to take a cent of their money, although her mother knew the truth: what you dole out to the young binds them to you. To have Elizabeth owing nothing was disconcerting, to say the least.
9. The narrator mentions the daughters of Elizabeth’s parents in line 3 primarily to
(A) criticize a behavior
(B) praise an activity
(C) explain a reaction
(D) note a transformation
(E) advocate an action
10. The passage suggests that Elizabeth’s parents found which quality to be “disconcerting” (line 11) in their daughter?
(A) Magnanimity
(B) Independence
(C) Frugality
(D) Lack of ambition
(E) Unwillingness to take risks
