SAT閲讀長難句的理解是關鍵的內容

SAT閲讀長難句的理解是閲讀的關鍵，因為SAT閲讀考題重點考察考生的美國大學教材的快速閲讀能力、理解能力及判斷能力。SAT閲讀除了檢測考生的詞彙量外，還要考察考生的理解及判斷的綜合能力。

1. In the early 1950s，historians who studied preindustrial Europe began， for the first time in large numbers，to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite：the kings，generals，judges，nobles，bishops，and local　magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. 難句類型：複雜修飾、插入語

譯文：二十世紀五十年代早期，研究前工業化時代歐洲的史學家，首次以眾多的.人數，開始調查前工業化時代歐洲人口中的大多數，而非那些構成了政治與社會精英階層的百分之二或三的人口，即國王、將軍、法官、貴族、主教、以及地方上的達官顯貴，而正是這部分人一直到那時為止普遍充斥於史學著作。

2. Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie　have used the documents to extract case　histories， which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups and have revealed how the authorities administered justice. 難句類型：複雜修飾、插入語

3. It can be inferred from the passage that a historian who wished to compare crime rates per thousand in a European city in one decade of the fifteenth century with crime rates in another decade of that century would probably be most aided by better information about which of the following?