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今天机构老师给大家讲一讲，SAT小说类文本中的划线句功能题应当如何分析！
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SAT小说类文本考察划线句功能题，主要分为以下三种情况：
#01、划线句为描写句
当划线句是描写句的时候，它的主要功能是reinforce main idea，而这个mian idea就是文本所表达的中心内容。
我们来看例题：
The following text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth. Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park.
Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches.On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
Q、Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A、It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene.
B、It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict.
C、It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on.
D、It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.
大家都答对了吗？
在该文本中，she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations是文本想要表达的中心句。
同学们在读句子中尤其是要抓住passion, appropriate, keenly sensitive, fitting background, own sensations等关键词来提炼句子的主旨，划线句的环境描写衬托出了Lily的情感色彩，是对第一句主旨句进行展开。
#02、划线句为中心主旨句
小说中心内容主要有主观想法/情感色彩、人物形象、人物互动等，解题时可以往这几个方向靠拢。
还是以题目为例：
The following text is from Herman Melville's 1854 novel The Lightning-rod Man.
The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the cottage, where he had first planted himself. His singularity impelled a closer scrutiny. A lean, gloomy figure. Hair dark and lank, mattedly streaked over his brow. His sunken pitfalls of eyes were ringed by indigo halos, and played with an innocuous sort of lightning: the gleam without the bolt. The whole man was dripping. He stood in a puddle on the bare oak floor: his strange walking-stick vertically resting at his side.
Q、Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?
A、It sets up the character description presented in the sentences that follow.
B、It establishes a contrast with the description in the previous sentence.
C、It elaborates on the previous sentence's description of the character.
D、It introduces the setting that is described in the sentences that follow.
在这道例题中，划线句中singularity直接就表达出了人物形象，后面的信息是对singularity进行展开：
对hair的描写，对eyes的刻画，以及the whole man was dripping, his strange walking-stick等。
#03、划线句为修辞句
如果划线句运用了明喻的修辞手法，这时候一定要搞清楚这个比喻的三要素：本体、喻体、比喻词。
我们来看这道题：
The following text is adapted from Indian Boyhood, a 1902 memoir by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), a Santee Dakota writer. In the text, Ohiyesa recalls how the women in his tribe harvested maple syrup during his childhood.
Now the women began to test the trees-moving leisurely among them, axe in hand, and striking a single quick blow, to see if the sap would appear. The trees, like people, have their individual characters; some were ready to yield up their life-blood, while others were more reluctant. Now one of the birchen basins was set under each tree, and a hardwood chip driven deep into the cut which the axe had made. From the corners of this chip -at first drop by drop, then more freely-the sap trickled into the little dishes.
Q、Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A、It portrays the range of personality traits displayed by the women as they work.
B、It foregrounds the beneficial relationship between humans and maple trees.
C、It demonstrates how human behavior can be influenced by the natural environment.
D、It elaborates on an aspect of the maple trees that the women evaluate.
本题的核心句是the women began to test trees. trees是本体，然后用people展开的喻体的特点来reinforce本体。
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