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?

Few religious buildings can be said to__the astonishing size of Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque in Egypt, which, with the capacity to accommodate approximately 17,000 people at once, is one of the largest mosques in the world.

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 writer Maud Sulter 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 Volga River delta system is located in Russia, where the river drains into the Caspian Sea, 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 ojibwe,an Indigenous language from the Great Lakes region of what are now the United States and Canada,wasa means "far,"whereas wa-wasa means "far apart."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"wa"in wasa gets repeated in wa-wasa"There are many examples of this type of reduplication in Ojibwe.

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 Panama City,Panama,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 318 respondents from Panama City,53.5% 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 Panama City 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 M C 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 buds and 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 warmeo by the sun of June.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Paris has high pedestrian traffic, but simply replicating a feature of Paris associated with walkability---e g ,its high number of car-free areas-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 climate conditions, others the role of population density, 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 decisian- making about walking?

In terms of total area, the Choctaw Nation is one of the largest tribal nations in the United States. It covers 10,864 square miles in what is now southeastern Oklahoma. In comparison, the total area of the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico 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 Change 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 Tristan Barbeyron's work with Zobellia galactonovorans bacteria and Yoshihide Matsuo's work with Zobellia uliginosa bacteria. Alegado and colleagues concluded that both Z galactonovorans and Z uliginosa might have played a role in the development of multicellular organisms.

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

The Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)examines trends in aging among 120,000 people in Europe unfolding over many years. As is true of most longitudinal studies, this need for years of data collection results in high costs. By contrast, a relatively straightforward marketing study, such as one that is merely trying to identify the average amount customers spend per transaction at an online retailer, 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 hexadecane (C₁₆H₃₄) and tetrachloromethane (CCl₄) have molar masses of 226.41 and 153.8 __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 Stephanie Shonekan 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 jazz and bebop).

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 Arroyo Seco bicycle path---which is 2 .27miles 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?

Ecologists like Michelle Evans-White use trophic pyramids to illustrate the food chain within a given ecosystem.At a typical pyramid's base are primary producers,like algae,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 sharks,that feed on the animals below.

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:

·In 1965,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?

· Sister cities are pairs of cities that form social or legal partnerships to promote each other's cultures. Previously known as "town twinning,"the concept of sister cities evolved in Europe after World War II as a way to repair bonds between cities.

· Many cities in New York State maintain such partnerships with cities around the world.Hudson,New York,and Pallisa,Uganda,became sister cities in 2006

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the duration of Hudson and Pallisa's sister city relationship?

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

·The Galiuro Mountains are a mountain range located in the southwestern United States.

·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 Mari Carmen 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?