SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

From sculptures like Miro's Chicago by Joan Miró, found at Brunswick Plaza, to street art like Justus Roe's mural South Shore on South Exchange Avenue, Chicago offers an array of works to__ the tastes of art lovers.

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

Writer Lydia Davis observed that while traditional literary forms, such as the novel, are recognizable as such even as they evolve, there are rarer "intergeneric" forms that might, for example, use elements of both fiction and essays to create something________. The late-period pieces of James Tate arguably fit this description, since they straddle the line between prose and poetry.

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

Alfred Nobel intended for the Nobel Prize to be an award honoring those who have contributed "the greatest benefit to mankind." Indeed, the work of Richard Laurence Millington Synge represented a significant ___________ the field of chemistry, and in 1952 he was among those awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "their invention of partition chromatography."

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

The following text is adapted from Adib Khorram's 2018 novel Daniur the Great Is Not OKay Darius, a teenager from the United States, is visiting his grandparents, Baboul and Mamou, in Iran. They are preparing for a holiday celebration.

I felt like a tourist. But Babouf sus ged with my cap a little more, even though Mahmoun already gotten it settled. He looked me in the eye and said, "You may be right- maybe I've been here before."Baboub hummed to himself as he smoothed out my shoulder seams and rested his hands on them. "I am glad you are here to see this," he said, aroush-jan. "Maybe I wasn't such a tourist.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

The following text is from Lady Gregory's 1904 play Spreading the News. Mrs. Tarpey, Bartley,and Mrs. Fallon have been buying and selling goods at the local fair.

MRS. TARPEY: Good morrow, Bartley Fallon; good morrow, Mrs. Fallon. Well, Bartley, you'll find no cause for complaining to-day; they are all saying it was a good fair.

BARTLEY: (Raising his voice.) It was not a good fair. Mrs. Tarpey. It was a scattered sort of a fair. If we didn't expect more, we got less. That's the way with me always; whatever I have to sell goes down and whatever I have to buy goes up. If there's ever any misfortune coming to this world, it's on myself it pitches, (like a flock of crows on seed potatoes.)

Which choice best describes the function of the underline dportion in the text as a whole?

The following text is from Frances E. W. Harper's 1892 novel Jola Leroy. The text describes Robert Johnson, who has recently joined the US Army. He was daring, without being rash: prompt, but not thoughtless; firm, without being harsh. Kind and devoted to the company he drilled, he soon won the respect of his superior officers and the love of his comrades.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Researchers César A. Hidalgo, Elisa Castañer, and Andres Sevtsuk created a computer model to predict the mix of gyms, beauty salons, and other businesses found in a given neighborhood. How we define a neighborhood and its boundaries is subjective, so the team used a clustering algorithm to locate dense groupings of amenities that represent human-identified neighborhoods like Boston's Central Square. The predictive model, which incorporates this algorithm, is sure to be invaluable in determining the optimal mix of a city's amenities.

According to the text,why did the team employ a clustering algorithm?

 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 Pyramid of Djoser was built 4,600 to 4,700 years ago and is__

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

In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Gwen Tohn's circa 1915 painting Mère Poussepin marks a significant change in John's artistic development.

Which quotation from an art history textbook would most effectively support the student's claim?

Drosophila (fruit flies) have generation times of 10-12 days, so seasonal changes in humidity and other environmental conditions can drive seasonal fluctuations in chromosome rearrangements in species such as D. persimilis and D. subobscura. Drosophila body size (for which wing centroid size serves as a proxy measure) correlates with life span. Banu Sebnem Onder and Cansu Fidan Aksoy measured the wing sizes of members of a D. melanogaster population in Yesilöz, Turkey, that were collected monthly between May and October over three years. Their research suggests that Drosophila collected in relatively warmer months should tend to have a longer life span, as is illustrated by the finding that________.

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table tocomplete the assertion?

Over 600 languages are spoken in New York City in addition to English--one can find Acehnese spoken in the neighborhood of Astoria, or Ilocano in Woodside. Most speakers of Chinese languages reside in the neighborhood of Flushing (part of New York City's borough of Queens), where the dominant Chinese language is Mandarin, and in Chinatown, in the borough of Manhattan, where the dominant Chinese languages are Cantonese and Fuzhounese. Mandarin is widely spoken in north China, while Cantonese and Fuzhounese are widely spoken in south China. It can therefore be inferred that__

Which choice most logically completes the text?

The Bronze Age in Britain lasted from around 2500 BCE to approximately 700 BCE. Collections of metal items (called hoards) from all periods of the Bronze Age have been found in Britain, including the Llanarmon-yn-Ial hoard of artifacts from the 16th century BCE, unearthed around 1982, and the much later Horsehope Craig hoard of artifacts from the 7th century BCE, unearthed around 1865. Sometime in the Middle Bronze Age (approximately from the 14th century BCE to the 10th century BCE), metalsmiths in Britain began to develop swords for the first time. This fact helps explain why, whereas evidence of sword production was found in__

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Home to roughly 710,000 people,__

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

The size of bird eggs varies widely across species, and the researchers,__ computer imaging to compare the lengths of eggs from species like Buteo albicaudatus and Treron vernans, aimed to shed light on the evolutionary basis for such variation.

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

Featuring works by the photographers Liselotte Grschebina and Else "Yva" Neuländer-Simon, the 2021 exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera set out to provide a wide-ranging overview of photography by women in the 1920s through the__given the collection's breadth of more than 120 photos, its efforts were largely successful.

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Sei Shonagon composed many__________"Things That Have Lost Their Power," which appears in her tenth-century account of Japanese courtly life, "Pillow Book", she bemoans boats run aground, toppled trees, and defeated wrestlers.

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

When__debuted in January 1983 as part of the exhibit Women of Clay, the art works 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?

One might assume that Germany's Amrumbank West offshore wind farm produces the same amount of energy as land-based wind farms of a similar size. __because wind speeds over open water are generally higher than those over land, Amrumbank West's turbines turn faster and produce more energy than do most land farms' turbines.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Those who looked up at the right time on July 9, 1926, would have witnessed an annular solar eclipse, during which the Moon blocks most of the Sun and causes it to look like a ring of light. _ stargazers on December 24, 1927, would have seen a partial solar eclipse, during which the Moon only blocks a portion of the Sun and causes it to look like a crescent.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

For several centuries after the birth of opera in sixteenth-century Florence, Italian remained the default language in which most opera scores were written. __opera singers today, such as the mezzo-soprano I'Nai Bridges, encounter a wide range of Italian terms--from con amore (with love) to moderato (at a moderate tempo)-when following many eighteenth-century opera scores.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

•Silent films can be valuable historical documents of their time.
•Ninety percent of silent films made before 1930 are now lost.
• A film is considered lost when no remaining copies are known to exist.
• Director Oscar Micheaux's 1922 silent film The Dungeon is lost.
• Director lay Marchant's 1925 silent film The Fighting Ranger is lost.
• Archives such as the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, help preserve some of the remaining films from the 1920s.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a similarity between the two movies?