28套新SAT阅读专项(托福雅思-).pdf

明志教育 QQ群：308463095 For more SAT, please go through Section 1 Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. This passage is adapted from Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, originally published in 1905. Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the life, and asked what form the rescue was to take. Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the “Oh, almost any—even to sitting on a bench and talking sight of Miss Lily Bart. to me. One sits out a cotillion—why not sit out a train? It It was a Monday in early September, and he was 45 isnt a bit hotter here than in Mrs. Van Osburghs 5 returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but conservatory—and some of the women are not a bit uglier.” what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had She broke off, laughing, to explain that she had come up to appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that town from Tuxedo, on her way to the Gus Trenors at he had come on her in the act of transition between one and Bellomont, and had missed the three-fifteen train to another of the country-houses which disputed her presence 50 Rhinebeck. “And there isnt another till half-past five.” She 10 after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air consulted the little jeweled watch among her laces. “Just two perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it hours to wait. And I dont know what to do with myself. My drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air maid came