SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

Hawai'i has a rich literary history that originated with the traditional stories of the Känaka Maoli, or the Native Hawaiian people. Mary Kawena Pukui, Gary Pak, and other writers have built on this tradition and brought Hawaiian literature to international prominence, _________ the manifold experiences of the Hawaiian people for readers around the world.

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

The House on Mango Street is an English-language novella by Sandra Cisneros. It occasionally includes Spanish words and phrases. The English text surrounding these words and phrases _______their meaning, so readers who aren't familiar with Spanish can easily read the novella. Ana Castillo takes the same approach in her novel Sapogonia.

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

The 1978 recording "Two Doors Down" established Dolly Parton as a key figure in pop music. But before she dabbled in pop, her singing and songwriting had been___________ the traditional folk music of the Appalachian Mountains. For example, "Little Bird,"one of her best early songs, is clearly influenced by the phrasing and subject matter of Appalachian ballads.

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

The following text is from William Blake's 1794 poem "Introduction to the Songs of Experience." The speaker addresses Earth as if it has been asleep.

 

'O Earth,O Earth, return!

Arise from out the dewy grass!

Night is worn,

And the morn

Rises from the slumbrous mass.

 

Based on the text, what does the speaker most likely mean by saying that "night is worn"?

Crematogaster nigriceps is an ant species that lives in the whistling thorn acacia tree. The canopies of acacias inhabited by C. nigriceps have a unique shape: because the ants eat the outermost leaves, these canopies are smaller and denser than the canopies of acacias without the ants. A team of scientists wanted to see if lidar (a technology that uses lasers to map landscapes from the sky) could be employed to identify acacias with C.nigriceps from above based on the trees'shapes. The scientists found that lidar identified acacias with C. nigriceps with 82% accuracy.

According to the text, how do acacias with C. nigriceps differ from those without C. nigriceps?

The following text is from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay "The Method of Nature."

The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the

foundations of the earth. No matter what is their special work or

profession,they stand for the spiritual interest of the world, and it is a

common calamity if they neglect their post in a country where the

material interest is so predominant as it is in America.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Insects like ground beetles, crustaceans like calico crabs, and many other animals without spines are known as arthropods. Their nervous systems are made up of a brain and different nerves. Javier Ortega-Hernandez, James Weaver, and team studied two fossils of the extinct arthropod Mollisonia symmetrica and identified parts of the species' nervous system. The researchers spotted evidence of nerves extending into the animal's body parts and may have also found rare signs of a synganglion, a brain-like mass of nerves in the head.

 

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Text 1

France has long used gross domestic product (GDP), the market value of the goods and services produced in a given period, as a key metric for national progress and well-being. Although GDP has value as an economic metric, myriad other factors influence people's quality of life to varying degrees, and it would be wrong to assume that a rising GDP necessarily equates to increasing societal well-being.

 

 

Text 2

Recognizing that a country's progress rests on both economic and noneconomic factors, in 2011 a government agency in the United Kingdom began surveying citizens to gauge quality of life. By assessing indicators in multiple domains—such as social relationships and professional and community activity —rather than relying solely on GDP, the United Kingdom gains a truer understanding of its national well-being.

 

Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 would most likely agree with which statement about "social relationships" and "professional and community activity," mentioned in Text 2?

The table shows that in 2016, the percentage of commuters who regularly biked to work in Minneapolis, Minnesota,was________.

 

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

Many groups of related organisms live on the South Pacific island of Grande Terre. Scientists have collected data showing how long ago the most recent ancestor of each group lived.

 

According to the table, how long ago did the most recent ancestor of Grande Terre's leaf beetles live?

Scientists collected information about brown bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska. This information included each bear's sex, age, and approximate weight. For the bear with identification number 158, for example, the scientists recorded that the bear was_________.

 

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

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum. In the novel, Dorothy travels to meet the Wizard of Oz, an important figure in a place called the Emerald City. The text presents a contrast between the Wizard of Oz's self-presentation and reality:_________.

Which quotation from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz most effectively illustrates the claim?

There are over 150 species of the cactus genus Mammillaria throughout the Americas, but their survival can be threatened by high precipitation and dense vegetation that blocks sunlight. Researchers have located species from the genus in almost every state in Mexico, with several of them, like M. schumannii, restricted to only one state. The fact that this genus has not been observed in parts of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range has been attributed to a lack of appropriate habitat, but much of the landscape in this area is notoriously inaccessible, which suggests that_________.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

The fifteenth-century English Heege Manuscript is unusual among collections of its kind and time given its focus on scary stories over more acclaimed works by celebrated medieval authors like Hoccleve. But according to professor James Wade, even more unusually, the three texts in the manuscript's first booklet were likely copied by Richard Heege from a traveling minstrel's repertoire book. The evidence includes performative elements such as the narrator directly appealing to the audience, joking about peasants and royalty, and making jokes that could be modified to refer to the town of Holbrooke when in nearby Radford to avoid giving offense.

As presented in the text, Wade would most likely agree with which statement about the first booklet of the Heege Manuscript?

During the relatively warm Cretaceous period (66 to 145 million years ago),there__________forests near the North Pole and South Pole.

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

Scott Parazynski, a former US astronaut, has gone on seven spacewalks. During _________ spacewalks, Parazynski performed important tasks outside the spacecraft, such as installing new equipment.

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

Why do children resemble their biological parents in some ways but not in ________answer requires an understanding of genetics.

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

The Egyptian calendar_________ three seasons: Akhet (the inundation season), Peret (the growing season), and Shemu (the harvest season).

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

Though they are in different countries, the towns of Jamame, Somalia, and Nyahururu, Kenya, __________ They are among the rare places that sit almost directly on the equator.

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

The World Cup of men's soccer, one of the biggest sporting events on the planet, brought 32 national teams from six continents to the host country, Russia, in 2018.__________ only 16 teams, all from Europe and the Americas, competed in the 1962 World Cup in Chile.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Developed by Les Paul in 1945, multitrack recording allows music producers to record songs by layering separate musical tracks on top of one another. For example, producers can first record the drums.__________they can record the guitars on top of the drums. Last, they can record the singer's vocals on top of the drum and guitar tracks to complete a rough mix of the song.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical trasition?

William Bowditch's home in Massachusetts was one of dozens of stops on the underground railroad (the network of people and places that some enslaved people used to escape to freedom). The word "underground" may lead one to assume that Bowditch kept his antislavery views a secret. ________ his views were quite well known.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

The moon Dia orbits Jupiter in the same direction that the planet rotates. ________ Dia's orbit is described as prograde. Helike, another of Jupiter's moons, orbits in the opposite direction, so its orbit is described with the opposite term: retrograde.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical trasition?

To determine the approximate age of ocher artifacts excavated from an archaeological site in China, archaeologist Fa-Gang Wang and colleagues collected samples of sediments surrounding the ocher artifacts; these samples were then analyzed using a method known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. __________OSL dating indicated that the ocher artifacts were between 39,000 and 41,000 years old.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

· The Highpointers Club is a hiking club.

· One of the main goals among club members is to reach the highest points in all fifty US states.

· Those who achieve this are called 50 Completers.

· In Suk Han became a 50 Completer on November 15, 2013.

· The highest point in Michigan is Mount Arvon, at 1,979 ft.

· The highest point in New Mexico is Wheeler Peak, at 13,167 ft.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to explain the 50 Completers hiking challenge to a new audience?

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

· Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity allows for potential shortcuts through spacetime.

· These hypothetical spacetime tunnels are known as wormholes.

· For matter to travel through a wormhole, it would need to have negative energy density.

· Negative energy density means that the matter would have less energy than empty space.

· Such matter has not been shown to exist.

The student wants to acknowledge a complication affecting travel through wormholes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?