SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame's1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is dazed after briefly meeting a stranger while traveling with a friend. [The]Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn.

As used in the text, what does the word "recall" most nearly mean?

Text corpora such as the Bank of English are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding how ______ a word is in spoken and written English. For instance, one might have a guess about the incidence of the word "get," but only an analysis of a corpus can prove that "get" is the fifth most commonly used verb.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

British painter Peter Edwards is known for his portraits of notable figures in different fields, from poet Wendy Cope to mathematician Christopher Zeeman. Widespread admiration of these works has helped Edwards gain substantial `_` as an artist.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The Apalachicola River delta system is located in Florida, where the river drains into the Gulf of Mexico, and is shaped by_______factors: for example, the geography of the coastline influences sedimentary deposition, which over time alters coastal geography.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

In the late 1800s, Spanish-language newspapers flourished in cities across Texas. San Antonio alone produced eleven newspapers in Spanish between 1890 and 1900. But El Paso surpassed all other cities in the state. This city produced twenty-two newspapers in Spanish during that period. El Paso is located on the border with Mexico and has always had a large population of Spanish speakers. Thus, it is unsurprising that this city became such a rich site for Spanish-language journalism.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

In Hoocak, an Indigenous language from the Midwest region of what is now the United States, paras means "Rat," whereas paraparac means "square."This phenomenon, in which an element of a root word is repeated, sometimes with modification, within another word that is related to the root word, is called reduplication.In this case, the element "para" in paras gets repeated in paraparac.There are many examples of this type of reduplication in Hoocak

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

In a study by Mika R Moran, Daniel A. Rodriguez, and colleagues, residents of Mexico City, Mexico, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, were surveyed about parks in their cities. Of the 562 respondents from Mexico City, 77.6%indicated that they use the city's parks, and of the 683 respondents from Buenos Aires, 69.9%indicated using city parks. Given that the percentage of Mexico City respondents who reported living within a 10-minute walk of a park was much lower than that reported by Buenos Aires respondents, greater proximity alone can't explain the difference in park use.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

The following text is from Guy de Maupassant" s 1884 short story "A Recollection," from the collection Guy de Maupassant Short Stories (translated by Albert MC McMaster et al .in 1903). The narrator is on a walk in the countryside outside of Paris, France.

I walked slowly beneath the young leaves, drinking in the air,fragrant with the odor of young bud sand sap. I sauntered along, forgetful of musty papers, of the offices, of my chief, my colleagues, my documents,and thinking of the good things that were sure to come to me, of all the veiled unknown contained in the future. A thousand recollections of childhood came over me, awakened by these country odors, and I walked along permeated with the fragrant, living enchantment, the emotional enchantment of the woods warmed by the sun of June.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Marrakech has high pedestrian traffic, but simply replicating a feature of Marrakech associated with walk ability---e.g, its highly varied streetscape -may be insufficient to induce increased walking in other cities. As urbanist Mariela Alfonzo argues, our understanding of individuals' decision-making about whether to walk is insufficiently robust: some studies emphasize the role of demographic characteristics, others the role of public transit availability, and so on, but walking decisions are made in complex contexts in which multiple conditions and needs inform individuals' choices.

Based on the text, Alfonzo would most likely agree with which statement about studies of decision-making about walking?

Total Areas of Five Tribal Nations around the United States

In terms of total area, the Muscogee Nation is one of the largest tribal nations in the United States. It covers 4,867 square miles in what is now eastern Oklahoma. In comparison,the total area of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota is only

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the comparison?

"Lines Written in Early Spring" is a 1798 poem by William Wordsworth. In the poem, the speaker describes having contradictory feelings while experiencing the sights and sounds of a spring day:

Which quotation from "Lines Written in Early Spring" most effectively illustrates the claim?

The Apollo program missions were spaceflights to the moon led by the United States during the 1960s and 1970s during which astronauts collected some samples of the moon's surface. More recently China launched the Chang'e 5 mission, which returned additional lunar surface samples. Researchers have analyzed and dated each of the samples, concluding that the lunar samples collected during the Chang'e 5 mission are significant because__

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the claim?

Biologist Rosanna Alegado believes that we might learn how multicellular organisms developed from single-celled ones if we understand why the single celled organism Salpingoeca rosetta, the oldest living relative of animals, sometimes forms colonies of cells. Alegado and colleagues reviewed data from many studies of how S rosetta responds when exposed to another type of single-celled organism, bacteria, including Eric W.Triplett's work with Dyadobacter fermentans bacteria and Jung-Hoon Yoon's work with Algoriphagus marincola bacteria. Alegado and colleagues concluded that both D.fermentans and A . marincola might have played a role in the development of multicellular organisms.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Alegado and colleagues' conclusion?

The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)examines trends in childhood development among 19,000 people in the United Kingdom unfolding over many years. As is true of most longitudinal studies, this need for years of data collection results in high costs.By contrast,relatively straight forward fitness study, such as one that is merely trying to identify the percentage of regular exercisers in a city who do weight training, may not need a large budget because __

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Oyster mushrooms typically get their nutrients from the damp logs on which they grow, but the fungi are also carnivorous, with the ability to kill and consume microscopic worms known as nematodes. As researcher Yen-Ping Hsueh has shown, the mushrooms release a toxin that is deadly to nematodes that _______ in contact with it.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Cut, bent, and welded from discarded metal materials, the sculptures of London-based Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas Camp are meant to challenge viewers to consider their own relationships to material ___ her thought-provoking works in the 1999 exhibition Sokari Douglas Camp at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, were no different.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

The liquid compounds tetradecane(C₁₄H₃₀) and dodecane (C₁₂H₂₆)have molar masses of 198.39 and 170.33_____mass helps convert between the mass of the reactants and the mass of the product).

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Scholars Tammy Kernodle and Paul Austerlitz have lent their expertise on Black history and music to an important new project: the Timeline of African American Music, a digital           through a rich combination of text, images, and music clips, traces the development of specific musical genres (such as funk and swing).

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In Los Angeles County, California, bicycle paths such as the Expo Bike way—which is about 15 miles long—have become an increasingly popular means of travel. Moreover， lawyer and cycling____has identified several features of the Los Angeles landscape, like its temperate climate and mostly flat roads, that make the city naturally bike-friendly.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

While other even-toed ungulate species, such as the water buffalo(Bubalus bubalis), are among the most populous animal species on earth, the Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskin)has a total population between 700 and 800 _____ one of the criteria required for a species to be considered endangered.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Ecologists like Renae Brodie use trophic pyramids to illustrate the food chain within a given ecosystem. At a typical pyramid's base are primary producers, like plants, followed by herbivores at the second trophic level, then omnivores and carnivores at the third.     at the fourth, highest trophic level are apex predators, like eagles, that feed on the animals below.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In a 2022 analysis of 200 terms, researchers found a broad pattern of valence-dependent mutation in which negative adjectives saw a faster rate of cognate replacement-the rate at which a word will be replaced over time with a non cognate form---than other words. ______ the adjective "illegal" would be expected to mutate faster than the noun "crisis."

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In the early 1970s, Albert Popa took up graffiti art, spraying his work onto what was at the time an unconventional surface: concrete. _______ Albert's son David has chosen an unusual canvas for his new art project, Fractured. In this remarkable work, the artist draws charcoal faces onto fragmented ice floes in Finland, creating the visual effect of a face slowly fracturing.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

·In1965, Yale University historians claimed that a world map called the Vinland Map was drawn in the fifteenth century.

·Since that time, the map's age has been the subject of debate.

·In 2021, researchers conducted a study to analyze the elemental composition of the map's ink.

·Their analysis revealed that the ink contains a titanium compound not used in inks until the1920s.

·The researchers concluded that the map was drawn in the twentieth century.

The student wants to present the study and its findings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic,a student has taken the following notes:

·The El Pinito Mountains are a mountain range located in northwestern Mexico.

·The range is one of the dozens of "sky islands" in the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

·A sky island is an isolated mountain range whose environment differs drastically from that of the surrounding lowlands.

·The Us Forest Service (USFS)said, "The mountains are "islands' surrounded by deserts that are 'seas."

·The USFS said, "Each Sky Island is a unique ecosystem."

The student wants to explain what a sky island is. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic,a student has taken the following notes:

· The International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA)is directed by MariCarmen Ramirez.

· Ramirez oversaw an initiative to create an online archive of historical documents related to the history of Latin American and Latino visual art.

·The ICAA digitized over 10,000 documents, including the writings of Latin American and Latino artists and critics.

·The creation of the archive didn't require historical documents to be removed from their countries of origin. Scholars now have more access to these documents.

The student wants to explain an advantage of the ICAA's archive being digital. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?