SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

It is tempting to treat the clustering of information technology firms in Northern California as representative of industrial agglomeration generally, but Guilia Faggio et al. caution against______this one example: the potential for knowledge spillovers, a dominant driver of collocation in this industry, was largely absent from the paint manutacturing industry.

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

A number of recording artists_____ distinctions between Indigenous music and other musical styles. For example, Choctaw singer songwriter Samantha Crain incorporated elemems of Choctaw hymns into folk-pop on her single "When We gemain." and Swfnomish tnupiaq musician Black Belt Eagie Scout combined powwow-style melodies with rock on her album At the
 Party with My Brown Friends.

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

Text 1

In 2015 Belem, Brazil, was named a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO in recognition of the city's unique food culture. The honer is well known among both residents of the city and tourists who visit. Simply by selecting Belem.LINESCO 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 Belem's restaurant industry hoped that food tourism would increase after the city was chosen as a City of Gastronomy in 2015. However, as researcher Eerang Park and colleagues argue, cities must still create effective marketing strategies to benefit fully Irum 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 Belem 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 common minke 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 common minke whale small it can have a mass as high as 4.000 kg-it is one of the smaller baleen whales and ts much smaller than the fin whale, which can weigh a whopping 80.000 kg and consume as much as 24.000 kg of krill per day.

Based on the text. what can most reasonably be concluded about krill consumption among common minke and tin whales?

A number of artists associated with hyperpop, a movement in electronic music that emerged in the 2010s, aggressively manipulate their recorded voice. The musician Arca, for example, sometimes shifts the pitch of her vocals to be much higher than that of her natural range. And even the hyperpop artists who don't rely on pitch shifting, such as Namasenda, 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 text?

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 the Tikal Temple IV was built 1,300years ago and is

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

Eduardo Martinez and colleagues found that tiling-the practice of turning soil with hoes, plows, or other machines before planting crops-was associated with an increased yield of winter wheat. But some studies of other crops have found the opposite effect, raising the question of whether the increase in yield found by Martinez 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 omo-ropmo bilak is a past oriented expression used by members of the Yupno. an Indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, that translates to -a couple of years ago."Rafael Nunez 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 front back 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?

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

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Some ethicists hold that the moral goodness of an individual's 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 text?

The Austronesian language family includes Banjarese, Hiligaynon, and some 200 other languages throughout the Pacific, making it one of the largest language families in the world and of keen interest to _____ of Leiden University.

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

The writer Jayne Cortez, along with others such as Haki Madhubuti and Maya Angelou,______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 heseb, which is written as a hieroglyph that looks like an X,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 area and volume, respectively, the heseb and heynt have since fallen out of use.

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

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

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

When____debuted in April 1983 as part of the exhibit Children's Art :Identity:New Work from Youth Education Program, the artworks brought vibrant visual texture to the bustling terminals of San Francisco International Airport.

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

Though he's performed on many respected albums, including BIue Matterby John Scofield, 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 xenon, 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 uranium, for instance, was discovered in 1789 but not isolated until 1841

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 Swedish pop rock band Roxette did when they named themselves after the song"Roxette" by Dr. Feelgood.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

With over five decades of hit singles, including"Lately" from the album Hotter than July, Stevie Wonder looms over the history of pop music with near peerless talent and longevity. _______in 1989, his legacy earned him one of the music industry's top honors: a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Tame

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 close, 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:

·Tepeapulco 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

·Tepeapulco's population was 56,245 in 2020

·Hidalgo is divided into 84 municipalities

The student wants to provide an example of a public service that Tepeapulco 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 Mons 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 fluorite has a Mons scale number of 4

·The mineral orthoclase has a Mons scale number of 6

·The mineral corundum has a Mons scale number of 9

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