SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

Today, the Michelin Guide is widely known as the arbiter of fine dining, but when it was created in 1889, it was little more than a marketing gimmick; brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin sought to increase profits for their tire company by encouraging their customers to drive across France, visiting the guide's recommended hotels and restaurants along the way. Nevertheless, the guide soon grew in scope and_________ its modest French eateries were replaced with some of the most esteemed restaurants from around the world, including Ishikawa in Tokyo and Jade Dragon in Macau.

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Writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia's love of short fiction began when she read a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories as a child, and she would develop into a prolific short story writer herself, publishing pieces like "Ahuizot!" (2015) and "Water" (2007). Yet she's best known as novelist, in part due to her__Gothic (2020) earning a spot on the New York Times Best Sellers list. 

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Within Earth's biomes, there are four main types of deserts: arid, semiarid, coastal, and cold. The Great Salt Desert in western Asia is an arid__it is one of the largest deserts in the world, with a total area of about 77,000 km².

 
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Sociologist Alton Okinaka sits on the review board tasked with adding new sites to the Hawaii Register of Historic Places, which includes the Pufuopae Bridge, built in 1915, and the Maalaea General Store, built in 1910. Okinaka doesn't make such decisions single-handedly,__historical designations must be approved by a group of nine other experts. 

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After finding information about Harold Eugene Ford, who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives, the student discovered biographical sketches of two other Black Americans who served in__ Harold Washington of Illinois and Augustus (Gus) Freeman Hawkins of California. 

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tracks comparative price list data for its thirty-eight member countries. According to this data, in July 2021, a "basket" of goods and services priced at 100 US dollars (USD) in the United States would have cost 62 USD in fellow OECD member__

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"Of Names," an essay by French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, explores a relatively light subject, while his essay "Of the Punishment of Cowardice" takes on heavier fare. No matter the essay topic, Montaigne challenges his own ideas, beliefs, and values.__he questions his own perspective, regardless of subiect matter.

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Though Middle English was widely spoken in fourteenth-century England, the language was rarely employed in literature until poet Geoffrey Chaucer helped pioneer its literary use.__his manuscripts contain the first documented uses of over 2,000 English words like the word "exaltation" in his 1386 poem "The Squire's Tale" _which led a contemporary to dub him "the first finder of our fair language."

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Built at a scale of 1:110, the Eiffel Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, is one of many replicas of the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.________towers like the Metallic Tower of Fourviere in Lyon, France, though not exact replicas, pay homage to the Eiffel's iconic spire-like design.
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The Cheruku rasamu mango variety is from the South Asian country of India. __ in 2018, 18.8 million metric tons of mangoes were produced.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Merle Oberon (1911-1979) was an actress born in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), India.
• She was of Indian, Maori, and Irish heritage.
• She was the first Indian-born actress to be nominated for an Academy Award.
• Early in her career, she played many nameless, uncredited roles, such as her role in Aren't We All? (1932).
• Later, she played many named, credited roles, such as Sue Mayberry in Affectionately Yours (1941).

The student wants to begin a narrative about Merle Oberon's life. 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 Music by Black Composers (MBC) project aims to inspire aspiring music students by archiving and sharing information about the music of Black classical composers.
• George Theophilus Walker is a Black classical music composer included in MBC's Historic Composers Directory.
• He was born in 1922 and died in 2018.

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

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• 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.
• Rhinebeck, New York, and Larreynaga, Nicaragua, became sister cities in 1989.
The student wants to emphasize the duration of Rhinebeck and Larreynaga's sister city relationship. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

At 1,006 meters, the Forth Road Bridge in the United Kingdom is one of the longest suspension bridges in the ________ the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge in Turkey, at 14,08 meters, is even longer.

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Both Heinrich Boll and Camilo Jose Cel.a have been commended for __ contributions to literature, perhaps most notably when the Swedish Academy awarded Ball the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972 and Cela in 1989. 

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On the other hand, Newark Liberty International Airport, which __ located in Newark, New Jersey, saw an overall increase in departing passengers over the same time period, from 16,704,844 total passengers to 23,171,827.

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Rising 11,371 feet above sea level, Mount Leuser __ among the world's tallest mountains.

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As an object-oriented computer programming language, Kotlin is used by coders like Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant to create programs by manipulating "Objects" (that is, specifically defined variables or combinations of variables) into interacting with each other. Conversely, Pascal ________ in software development and educational instruction, is not an object-oriented language.

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