SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

With his widely celebrated portraits of poet Seamus Heaney, molecular biologist Struther Arnott, and other prominent figures in different fields, British painter Peter Edwards has ___ substantial prestige as an artist. 
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Though many ________ studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry focus on people who live above sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhai recently chose the novel path of focusing on people who live below sea level, in locations such as the California towns of Salton Cityand Coachella.

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

The following text is adapted from William Wordsworth's 1798 poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey."
Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty clifts,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
As used in the text, what does the word "deep" most nearly mean?

The Caves of Gargas paintings--stencils of human hands found in what is now France and dating from around 27000 years ago--are thought of as art today, but the question of whether the people of the time understood the paintings as something akin to art in our modern sense or in some other way entirely is__; we will never be able to answer it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Eden Robinson is a novelist and a member of the Haisla Nation in western Canada. Critics and fellow writers have praised her work for combining traditional Haisla stories with popular genres of literature, such as fantasy and mystery fiction. But Robinson is not the only Indigenous writer to blend traditional stories with popular literature. In the 2019 novel Empire of wild, Cherie Dimaline successfully blended the oral storytelling tradition of her people, the Metis, with horror fiction. 
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

Text 1
Attempts to automate classification of music into genres have not been very successful, and we may be at the limit of what is technologically possible. But it's not clear that this is a worthwhile pursuit in any case—as Jin Ha Lee and Anh Thu Nguyen argue in their study of the South Korean band BTS, relationships between pieces of music may be best understood with concepts other than genre.
Text 2
Tango is a genre of music originally from Argentina and Uruguay that shares some harmonic and rhythmic similarities with the pagode genre. Automated genre classification systems typically struggle to draw distinctions in situations like this, but Yandre Costa and colleagues solved that problem by converting sound to images and having computers compare features of those images, an approach that demonstrates how much innovation is possible in this field.

Based on the texts,how would the author of Text 2 most likelyrespond to the claim in the underline sentence of Text 1?

The following text is adapted from Adib Khorram's 2018 novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay. Darius, a teenager from the United States, is visiting his family members in Iran. I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that blew my way from the front seat of Dayi [Uncle] Jamsheed's SUV.

It reminded me of when I was little, and Mom chanted to me in Farsi every night before bedtime. 

It's hard to describe Farsi chanting: the way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez I didn't know what they meant, but that didn't matter. It was quiet and soothing.
©2018 by Adib Khorram
Base on the text, what does the narrator mainly remember about the times when his mother chanted to him?

Minimum and Maximum Depths of Stony Coral Species in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Waters 

The table is from a 2018 study in which Luiz Rocha and colleagues examined the ranges of depths at which certain stony coral species have been found in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific waters. Among the corals in the table. the species with the greatest range between minimum and maximum depths is___ 
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?

The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, originally written in Spanish. In the novel, a group of soldiers travel through a canyon, where their collective mood becomes strongly affected by the strenuous conditions of their journey:___ 
Which quotation from a translation of The Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim?

 A run-of-river hydroelectric power plant, as the name suggests, uses the natural flow of a water source to generate electricity but is unable to start or stop that flow through its generators. In contrast, a peaking hydroelectric power plant (used when demand for electricity peaks) controls the flow of water through its generators: starting flow when demand is high enough, stopping it when demand is too low, and otherwise regulating it to keep pace with changing electricity needs. Although peaking plants do not typically operate continuously as run-of-river plants do, peaking plants can generate more megawatt-hours of power per year (MWh/yr) than some run-of-river plants. For example, the___ 
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the example?

The 2000 production of The Green Bird was the first Broadway show for which Constance Hoffman was credited as a costume designer. Hoffman was among the Broadway costume designers interviewed by Sara Jablon-Roberts and Eulanda A Sanders for their study of historical accuracy in costume design for shows with a historical setting. They found that even designers who value historical accuracy will often include contemporary design elements that don't fit with the historical period. In a research paper about theatrical costume design, a student argues that costume designers for modern productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (set in ancient Greece) sometimes include such elements unintentionally. 

Which quotation from an interview with a costume designer would most effectively support the student's claim?

In order to identify research trends, Shirley Ann Williams et al, reviewed a collection of studies of the social media website Twitter, such as the 2011 paper by Celik et al, titled "Learning Semantic Relationships between Entities in Twitter." Williams's team searched for the term "Twitter" on the Scopus and Web of Science databases and found that, though most papers returned by the search did in fact focus on the social media platform, a few discussed unrelated subjects such as sounds made by tractor engines. One reasonable explanation for this result is that it occurred because___ 
Which choice most logically completes the text?

In a 2012 study in the United States, Michael E. Berndt and Travis K. Bavin found a positive association between levels of dissolved organic carbon and mercury in bodies of fresh water. 

Many other studies have yielded similar results, suggesting to some scientists that this association is true for all bodies of fresh water. But much of that research has been conducted at broadly similar sites in North America, and when Seam Noh and colleagues examined bodies of fresh water in South Korea, they found a negative association between dissolved organic carbon levels and mercury levels. If similar findings emerge from other locations outside North America, that could suggest that ___ 
Which choice most logically completes the text?

In the thought-provoking 2010 exhibition Relative Pelican at the Stux Gallery in New York, 

Sokari Douglas Camp presented sculptures that had been ___ welded from recycled metal materials, such as oil drums. In doing so, the London-based Nigerian sculptor challenged viewers to imagine new uses and futures for the material wastes of the past.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In Puerto Rico, it's not unusual for a city or town to be known ___ a nickname that corresponds to one of its notable features, like landscape, climate, famous residents, or chief exports. For example, the Puerto Rican municipality of Hatillo has also been called "the Land of Green Fields," a nickname that alludes to what the area is well known for: the lush greenery that surrounds it.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In the spring of 1964, it was hard to go anywhere without hearing the song "Cotton Candy" by the Sylvers. As of April 11, the song had spent thirteen straight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and ___ No.1 on the list.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?