SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

The following text is adapted from Willa Cather's 1912 novel Alexander's Bridge.

For the next few days Alexander was very busy. He took a desk in the office of a [Scottish] engineering firm on Henrietta Street, and was at work almost constantly. He avoided the clubs and usually dined alone at his hotel.

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

According to a team of neuroeconomists from the University of Zurich, ease of decision making may be linked to communication between two brain regions, the prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex. Individuals tend to be more decisive if the information flow between the regions is intensified, whereas they make choices more slowly when information flow is____

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

Ecologist Exequiel Ezcurra and colleagues found that the inhabitants of the Mexica empire used natural landmarks to track time with a high degree of ___. By observing the sun's position in relation to various points on the mountains surrounding the Basin of Mexico, the Mexica were able to precisely identify the dates when significant events such as solstices occurred.

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

Steeple top in Austerlitz, New York, is the house where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived for twenty-five years and wrote many of her poems. Now the house is a museum dedicated to Millay's life and writings. Visitors travel to this museum to feel more connected to an author they admire. To encourage that sense of connection, the museum's curators recommend nearby hiking trails and outdoor activities. Such activities help visitors appreciate the natural scenery that inspired Millay.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

Sheep and falcons can see in three dimensions (3D), which helps them perceive distance and depth. Octopuses and squid are thought to lack 3D vision. Many researchers once thought the same about cuttlefish, but Trevor War dill and hi steam wanted to test whether this assumption was true. The team studied how cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses reacted to 3D images of shrimp (a favorite prey)projected on a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed their striking position to match the 3D images, suggesting that their vision is more like that of sheep and falcons than that of octopuses or squid.

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

Mexico City has high pedestrian traffic, but simply replicating a feature of Mexico City associated with walk ability- e.g, its high block density- 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 sidewalk width. others the role of neighborhood attractiveness, and so on, but walking decisions are made in complex contexts in which multiple conditions and needs inform individuals' choices.

Which choice best describes the function of the references to "sidewalk width" and "neighborhood attractiveness" in the text as a whole?

The following text is Emily Dicknison's circa 1873 poem"There ia no Frigate like a Book".A Frigate like a Book"A Frigate is a light fast ship; courses are swift horses.

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry---

This Traverse may the poorest take

Withut oppress of Toll---

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human soul.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Tanya Tagagsa is a writer and musician and a member of the Inuit conmunity of Cambrndge Bay in northern Canada. Critics and fellow writers have praised her work tor combining tradional Inuit stories with popular genres of literature, such as fantasy fiction. But Tagaq is not the only indiginous writer to blend traditional stories with popular literature. In the 2016 novel Wrist, Nathan Adier successfully blended the oral storytelling tradition of their people, the Anishinnabe, with horror fiction.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Uncle Vanya:Scenes From Country Life in Four Acts is an 1898 play by
Anton Chekhov,originally written in Russian.In the play,professor
Serabrakoff and his wife Helena have come to stay at their country
estate,which Vanya manages with the help of Sonta,the professor's
daughter from a previous marriage.Chekhov portrays the professor as
being unable to adjust to living at tne country estate,as is evident
when___
Which quotation from a translation of Uncle Vanya most effectively
illustrate the claim?

Contributions of Three Key Industries to Oklahoma Economy in 2017

The Cherokee Nation, the Seminole Nation, and the more than thirty other tribes in Oklahoma operate numerous businesses and collectively generate billions of dollars in revenue. In fact, when the tribes' activity is regarded as a single industry, its contribution to the Oklahoma economy in 2017____

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

One way that young orangutans acquire foraging skills is through a behavior scientists call peering-closely watching older orangutans as they engage in an activity that the young have not yet mastered. Since male orangutans typically leave the area of their birth upon maturity and females do not, Beatrice Ehmann and her colleagues hypothesized that it is more advantageous for immature males than females to devote attention to orangutans who are immigrants to the home region of the immature individual, and this should be reflected in sex specific differences in peering behavior.

Which choice best describes data from the table that support Ehmann and colleagues' hypothesis?

In June of 1986, India liberalized its stock market, meaning that it began allowing foreign individuals and businesses to invest money in Indian companies. This was part of a wave of stock market liberalizations around the world-Malaysia in 1987 Pakistan in 1991, and so on.The standard view among economists at the time was that liberalization would make it easier for companies to raise money from investors. Economist Peter Blair Henry examined the economies of 11 countries that were part of the liberalization wave and found that, on average, companies based in those countries received significant increases in investment in the three years following liberalization, suggesting that__

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Buried collections of Bronze Age metal items (called hoards) have been found allover Britain. For hoards discovered since the 1960s, such as the 1965 discovery of the Walderslade hoard, advancements like inexpensive metal detectors, ground-penetrating radar, and aerial surveys have made it much easier for searchers to locate hoards before putting the first shovel in the ground. Hoards found before the 1960s, however, such as the discovery of the Auchnacree hoard around 1921, were not aided by such technologies and thus were much more likely to __

Which choice most logically completes the text?

"He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man."This line is from Frederick Douglass's autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). It's an example of antimetabole. a writing technique that _____  emphasis by repeating a statement in a reversed order.

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

Over several years, anthropologist Livia Barbosa surveyed individuals in Brazil about their eating habits, collecting data, for example, on what days of the week respondents were more likely `__` common Brazilian foods, such as galinhada (a rice and chicken stew) and misto quente (a ham and cheese sandwich).

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

To coders like Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant, the computer programming languages Groovy and S-Lang have a clear difference: the former is an object-oriented language while the latter is not. Because both languages require highly technical knowledge to understand, though, laypeople___to distinguish between them.

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

Included among a particular group of mid-twentieth-century artists known as the Washington Color School, American abstract ______ was known for using stripes and washes and for filling large canvases with fields of single colors of paint.

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

The Timeline of African American Music, a website that traces the history of genres such as swing and bebop, is the result of decades of research by ethnomusicologist Portia K. Maultsby. She was not alone in her _______Maureen Mahon and Fernando Orejuela, among other scholars, also contributed to the project.

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

In a 2022 analysis, researchers applied a statistical model to a set of words to infer the rate of cognate replacement—the rate at which a word will be replaced overtime with a noncognate form—in Indo-European languages. The researchers found that negative adjecuves like"homeless" evolve most rapidly; ______negative nouns evolve most slowly.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In the 1880s, inventor Lewis Latimer improved upon Thomas Edison's design for the electric light bulb._____ Latimer made the light bulb more durable by placing cardboard around its carbon filament. With this innovation. Latimer became the first Black inventor to contribute to the electrification of the world

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Soil polluted with chromium (a heavy metal) is harmful to many plants and animals, but the plant species Ludwigia prostruta, or creeping water primrase, can thrive in such conditions. _________as a metal hyperaccumulator, Ludwigia prostruta absorbs a large amount of chromium and sequesters it in its roots and shoots, thereby reducing concentrations of this harmful substance in the soul.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

The Music by Black Composers (MBC)project aims to inspire aspiring music students by archiving and sharing information about the music of Black classical composers.

Logie Wright is a Black classical music composer included in MBC's Historic Composers Directory. He was born in 1927 and died in 2001.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to set up a discussion of Wright's career for an audience already familiar with the MBC project?

While researching a topic. a student has taken the following notes:
·Earthquakes start at a point called a "focus" and spread out from there as seismic waves.
·The two types of seismic waves that travel beneath Earth's surface are primary waves (P waves)and secondary waves (S waves).
·P waves travel more quickly beneath Earth's surface than do S waves.
·P waves compress and expand the ground, causing it to move backward and forward. S waves cause the ground to move from side to side. The student wants to emphasize a similarity between P waves and S waves.

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:

·A currency is a money system.

·Sometimes,countries adopt a new currency to replace an older one.

·Mozambique adopted the escudo as its official currency in 1914.

·The metical replaced the escudo in 1980.

·The metical remains Mozambique's official currency.

The student wants to specify how long Mozambique officially used the escudo. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?