SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

In 1891, design artist William Morris cofounded the Kelmscott Press, which printed editions of books using preindustrial methods. Historians argue that Morris's repudiation of industrialization is______the Kelmscott editions' use of handmade materials and intricate ornamentation reminiscent of medieval manuscripts these meticulously handcrafted elements exemplify the artistry involved.

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

It is tempting to treat the clustering of car manufacturing firms in Detroit, Michigan, as representative of industrial agglomeration generally, but Guilia Faggio et al, caution against______ this one example: the existence of labor pools, a dominant driver of collocation in this industry, was largely absent from the game and toy manufacturing industry.

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

A number of recording artists____distinctions between Indigenous music and other musical styles. For example, the Haudenosaunee group the Hallaci Nat hon incorporated powwow music into electonic dance music on its album One Mare Satuirnday Night, and Swinomish inupiag musician black Belt Eagle Scout combined powwow-style melodies with rock on her album At the Party with My Brown friends.

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

Joel Brown and colleagues showed that high moonlight intensity inhibits the activity of the Arizona pocket mouse (Perognathus amplus). a result explicable in terms of benefits and costs: greater lunar intensity may not enable the mice to increase to raging success enough to offset the higher chance of detection by predatory owls or hawks, Most other nocturnal mammals respond to lunar intensity variations similarly to Arizona pocket mice, but Azara's night monkeys (Aotus azarac) display the opposite pattern as their heavy reliance on visual foraging results in a different balance of reward and risk.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Text 1

in 2019 Arequipa, Peru, was named a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO in recognition of the city's unique food culture. The honor is well known among both residents of the city and tourists who visit. Simply by selecting Arequipa, UNESCO has helped bring awareness to local recipes, cooking practices, and chefs and has provided a significant boost to the city's tourism industry.

Text 2

Many people in Arequipa's restaurant industry hoped that food tourism would increase after the city was chosen as a City of Gastronomy in 2019 However, as researcher Eerang Park and colleagues argue. cities must still create effective marketing strategies to benefit fully from being named a City of Gastronomy. Without the intentional effort that was made to promote the city's food scene, many current and potential visitors to Arequipa would not even be aware that it's home to uniquely delicious food.

Which choice best describes a difference in how the authors of the texts view the benefits of being named a City of Gastronomy?

Like all species of baleen whales, the sei whale feeds on tiny creatures known as krill by filtering water through bristle like keratin structures called baleen plates. In this way. baleen whales can eat up to 30 percent of their total mass per day. And while no one would call the sei whale small-it can have a mass as high as 25,000 kg-it is one of the smaller baleen whales and is much smaller than the bowhead whale,which can weigh a whopping 000 kg and consume as much as 19,.800 kg of krill per day.

Based on the text, what can most reasonably be concluded about krill consumption among sei and bowhead whales?

A number of artists associated with hyperpop, a movement in electronic music that emerged in the 2010s, aggressively manipulate their recorded voice. The singer Dorian Electra, for example, shifts the pitch of their vocals to be much deeper than that of Electra's natural range. And even the hyperpop artists who don't rely on pitch-shifting, such as Rina Sawayama, often distort their vocals using digital tools. By persistently modifying the voice,hyperpop invites the listener to reflect on the extent to which digital technology mediates the human experience today.

Which description of vocal manipulation in hyperpop is best supported by the test?

In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Agnes Martin's 1957 painting Harbor Number 1 marks a significant change in Martin's artistic development.

Which quotation from an art history textbook would most effectively support the students claim?

Pyramids in Egypt and the Americas

A student is writing an essay about four pyramids for a history class and wants to note how long ago each pyramid was built and how tall each pyramid is. Consulting the table, the student finds that el Castillo was built 1,100 to 1,400 years ago and is

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

Studies of the Effects of Tilling vs.No Tilling on Crop Yields

Laila Nazirah and colleagues found that tilling—the practice of turning soil with hoes, plows, or other machines before planting crops—was associated with an increased yield of rice. But some studies of other crops have found the opposite effect, raising the question of whether the increase in yield found by Nazirah and colleagues is specific to their study crop. However this doesn't seem to be the case:        

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

The phrase usa -don sonda is a future-oriented expression used by members of the Yupno, an Indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, that translates to next week"Rafael Nun ez and colleagues recorded Yupno speakers explaining several of these temporal-related words and phrases and coded each speaker's manual gestures. Previous research has found evidence of Spanish speakers referring to the left right axis to describe events in time, and many researchers believe that this tendency to make temporal distinctions along imagined linear axes is universal.However.Nunez and colleagues claim that this tendency is not in fact ubiquitous.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Nunez and colleagues' claim?

In a 2017 study. Nitika Sharma and Rekha Dayal found that for consumers who value environmental conservation. their likelihood of purchasing a product increased when their perception of the product's effectiveness at addressing an environmental issue increased-in other words. the more environmentally friendly a product is perceived to be by a consumer the more likely that consumer is to buy it. Subsequently, another research team conducted a study of various demographic groups in Chile, investigating participant's intention to purchase a new food product. and found that. on average, middle-aged adults gave the food product a higher environmental effectiveness rating than any other demographic group did. Assuming that the results of Sharma and Dayal's study are broadly applicable, this finding suggests that_

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Many studies have found a positive association between levels of dissolved organic carbon and mercury in bodies of fresh water in North America. But Andrea G. Bravo and colleagues did not find this correlation in a study conducted in Sweden. leading some scientists to hypothesize that the association is particular to North America. However.several other studies conducted outside North America, such as one by Clara L Moreno and colleagues in Norway, showed similar results to the North American studies, while few have produced results similar to those of Bravo and colleagues' study, suggesting that

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Some ethicists hold that the moral goodness of an individuals actions depends solely on whether the actions themselves are good, irrespective of the context in which they are carried out. Philosopher L. Sebastian Purcell has shown that surviving works of Aztec(Nahua)philosophy express a very different view. Purcell reveals that these works posit an ethical system in which an individual's actions are judged in light of how well they accord with the individual's role in society and how well they contribute to the community. To the extent that these works are representative of Aztec thought. Purcell's analysis suggests that___

Which choice most logically completes the test?

The Austronesian language family includes Samoan, Palauan, and some 1,200 other languages throughout the Pacific, making it one of the largest language families in the world and of keen interest to _______ of UC Santa Cruz.

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

The writer Audre Lorde, along with others such as Haki Madhubuti and Quincy Troupe,             commonly associated with the Black Arts movement, a loose knit group of writers and artists active in the 1960s and the 1970s who were interested in exploring the Black American experience through their work.

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

The djeser, which is written as a horizontal hieroglyph shaped like a bent arm holding a short stick, and the heqat, which is written as a hieroglyph that looks like four oval items pouring out of a barrel, were ancient Egyptian units of____to record length and volume, respectively, the djeser and heqat have since fallen out of use.

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

Proto-Atlantic-Congo-a protolanguage, or ancestral language of a family of descendant(daughter) languages-is said to be the common ancestor of all Atlantic-Congo languages. This designation is___Proto-Atlantic Congo is only postulated, its characteristics being inferred from the linguistic properties of its 1.453 daughters.

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

A species of Byropsis algae produces toxins to avoid being eaten by predators. However in some cases, the toxins the organism uses to protect itself from predation actually ______ its attractiveness to predators. The Hawaiian sea slug. for example, not only tolerates Byropsis toxins but actually uses them for protection in the same way the algae does.

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

Though he's performed on many respected albums, including Low Blow by Victor Bailey, drummer Dennis Chambers may be best known for his time as house drummer for the hip-hop label Sugar Hill Records. He did not play drums on the label's classic song" Rapper's           he joined the label after the song's release.

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

With many elements, like cadmium, scientists were able to isolate a relatively pure sample of the substance shortly after discovering its existence-but this wasn't the case with all elements._____ the isolation process took years. The element niobium, for instance, was discovered in 1801 but not isolated until 1864

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In hindsight, given the ideas about the natural world circulating among British scientists in the 1800s, the theory of natural selection was an obvious next step. It may not have been a coincidence, `_` that Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace arrived at the concept independently. Indeed. contrary to the popular myth of the lone genius, theirs is not the first paradigm-shifting theory to have emerged from multiple scholars working in parallel.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A band might choose a name that is as unique and original as possible. ______ they might name themselves after a recognizable song by a favorite band. This is what the Japanese experimental rock band Boris did when they named themselves after the song"Boris" by the Melvins.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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

·Elizabeth Catlett's sculpture Recognition (1970)shows two African American figures with rounded, indistinct features.

·The figures reach out to each other in a pose that symbolizes a dose, supportive relationship.

·Her sculpture Students Aspire(1978)shows two African American figures with sharply defined features.

·The figures hold an equal sign above their heads with one hand and embrace each other with the other hand.

·This pose symbolizes their support for each other in the pursuit of equality.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two sculptures. 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:

·Metztitlan is a municipality in the state of Hidalgo,Mexico.

·Municipalities are governmental regions responsible for providing many public services to their residents.

·One service they provide is water treatment.

·Metztitlan's population was 20.962 in 2020.

·Hidalgo is divided into 84 municipalities.

The student wants to provide an example of a public service that Metztitlan is responsible for 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 Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a ten-point scale that orders minerals by hardness based on their ability to scratch other minerals.
· Minerals with larger numbers are harder than minerals with smaller numbers and can leave visible scratches on them.
· Minerals with smaller numbers are softer than minerals with larger numbers and cannot leave visible scratches on them.
· The mineral talc has a Mohs scale number of 1.
· The mineral fluorite has a Mohs scale number of 4.
· The mineral orthoclase has a Mohs scale number of 6.

The student wants to compare the hardness of the three minerals. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?