SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

Several scholars of children's literature recently _______ to discuss the work of Will Clay, illustrator of such lauded books as Little Eight John. Once together, they talked about his style, influences, and themes.

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

The following text is from Jacqueline Woodson's 2018 novel Harbor Me.

My uncle is a musician and a storyteller. He says the hardest part of telling a story is finding the beginning.

@2018 by Jacqueline Woodson

As used in the text, what does the word "finding" most nearly mean?

K.D. Leka and colleagues found that the Sun's corona provides an advance indication of solar flares—intense eruptions of electromagnetic radiation that emanate from active regions in the Sun's photosphere and can interfere with telecommunications on Earth. Preceding a flare, the corona temporarily exhibits increased brightness above the region where the flare is            .

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

Many ancient sculptures of people's heads are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most _______ part of a sculpture of a person's head. It is delicate and sticks out from the rest of the sculpture, making it especially easy to break.

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

From polar bears to short-tailed crickets, many animals practice some form of brood care (caring for offspring). Chenyang Cai and team claim to have found the earliest evidence of this behavior in insects in 163.5-million-year-old remains from the Haifanggou Formation in China, a location that has yielded many fossils, including those of feathered dinosaurs. Cai and team examined 157 specimens of the extinct water boatman species Karataviella popovi and noted thirty individuals that appear to carry eggs on one of their legs. This finding establishes brood care in insects approximately 38 million years earlier than previously known.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Animals use many objects as tools to achieve goals more easily. Such goals include grooming, finding food, and protecting themselves. For a long time, people thought tool use was unique to primates. Boxer crabs and other animals, though, have busted the myth that tool use is limited to certain primates, inventively, boxer crabs use stinging anemones to defend against attack, Striated herons also get creative. They use breadcrumbs and other lures to attract fish to the water's surface, making it easier for the herons to catch them.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Which design makes a paper airplane fly the farthest? One way to explore questions like this is to use the scientific method. After asking a question, make a prediction or form a hypothesis. Then collect and analyze data. Finally, draw a conclusion. The scientific method helps us answer questions, such as the one about paper airplanes.

What is the main topic of the text?

Text1

Economist Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has a more rigorous structure than its sequel, Capital and Ideology. While the first book's chapters all contribute to bolstering a clear, coherent argument about income inequality, the second book's digressions on subjects such as the authorship of the Sanskrit text known as the Manusmriti do not just stretch out the book needlessly but also muddy its reasoning.

Text 2

Capital and Ideology has different aims than Piketty's earlier books. It should be judged not just in the context of Piketty's previous work but placed next to books like Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, in which the stated theme of the varieties of melancholy is mainly an excuse for a polymath to map his own mind. Even when sections do not explicitly support the central thesis, they link to each other in intriguing ways. None of them should be considered extraneous.

Based on the texts, which choice best describes a difference in how the authors of Text 1 and Text 2 view Capital and Ideology?

In the table, the city with the lowest number of residents who often biked to work in 2016 is _______

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

An anthropologist is recording the metal contents of various historical deposits of valuables, called hoards, found in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She notes that the hoards differed in their contents; for example,            

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

Researcher Peidong Jin and team presented updated measurements of the lengths of several rivers.

According to the table, which river is the longest?

Blue holes, such as the Far Side Blue Hole in the Abaco Islands, are large seawater sinkholes that tend to have varying water density and irregularities in their steep walls. In 2021, researchers studied the previously unexplored Taam Ja' Blue Hole (TJBH) in Chetumal Bay, Mexico; using echo sounder mapping, they determined its maximum depth to be about 274 meters. In the complex environments of blue holes, however, echo sounder mapping has limitations. So, in 2023, Joan A. Sanchez-Sanchez and colleagues employed a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) profiler to remeasure the depth of the TJBH. The profiler recorded depths around 420 meters but was unable to confirm detection of the bottom of the hole, suggesting that _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

The glossy ibis and the little blue heron are long-legged birds that live in wetlands, like the Everglades in Florida. Laura D'Acunto and colleagues wanted to know how these birds choose an area in which to live. They looked at features of the birds' habitats, such as the geographic location of the area and how deep the water is during breeding season. They found that although only glossy ibises prefer areas with deep water during breeding season, both glossy ibises and little blue herons prefer areas that have standing water for more than 60 days per year. The researchers therefore concluded that neither species is very drawn to areas where _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Indigenous songs are an important resource for ecological information. Songs of the Kwakwaka'wakw people in British Columbia, Canada, share vital information about clam gardens, and the songs of the Karen (hta) Hin Lad Nai people in Thailand offer detailed information about bees. There have been efforts made to preserve indigenous languages over the years-e.g., the United Nations' International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032). However, such attempts have typically focused on spoken language despite the fact that some expressions in these languages appear only in songs. Therefore, if those involved in such efforts want to ensure that a comprehensive range of information is secured, they must _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

One example of public art (art that's readily accessible to the general public)              the work Mustangs of Las Colinas. This sculpture is installed in a public square in Irving, Texas.

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

Many places in the United States share a name with a foreign city or country. When founding the village of Prague, Nebraska, residents decided to name _______ after the Czech city of Prague.

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

The American bison (Bison bison) has a species population of roughly 530,000 _______ less than that of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), which has a species population of approximately 11,500,000.

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

San Juan Market is a public market in Mexico City. Both locals and visitors _______ the market, buying everything from fresh produce to specialty meats and cheeses.

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

As anthropologist Cristina Grasseni explains, many artisanal cheeses in Italy, such as Castelmagno from Piedmont and Mozzarella di Bufala Campana from Apulia, are highly valued for their regional authenticity;             they are prized for being made using local ingredients and methods typical of their respective geographic regions.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

When the first railroads were built in Australia in the 1800s, a variety of track sizes (gauges) were used across the continent, resulting in what historians call the "railway gauge muddle." The Dreamworld Railway line in Queensland used narrow tracks. _______ the Mornington Railway line in Victoria used broad gauge tracks.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A turtle shell appears external to the animal, protecting its body like armor. ___________ the shell is often incorrectly assumed to be an exoskeleton, a rigid outer casing like that of a crustacean or an insect, when in fact it is an endoskeleton, a part of the turtle's internal bone structure, more akin to a spine or a pair of ribs.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

According to Portuguese researcher Isabel C,F.R. Ferreira, the veratric acid found in cauliflower mushrooms can protect human cells from damage. _______ the acid combats free radicals, a type of unstable molecule that can harm healthy cells in the human body.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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

·The Great Salt Lake in Utah is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water.

·The northern portion of the lake has a higher concentration of salt than the southern portion.

·Aquatic insects called Ephydra cinerea live in the southern portion.

·Bacteria called Achromobacter live in the southern portion.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between Ephydra cinerea and Achromobacter. 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 High Ore Line Trail is located in Alabama.

·It was created from a former railroad corridor.

·Visitors can use the trail for a variety of recreational activities.

·These include walking, biking, and in-line skating.

The student wants to list activities that the High Ore Line Trail can be used for. 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:

·Kale is a vegetable that contains ascorbic acid, an essential nutrient for humans.

·Every 100 grams (g) of kale contains 120 milligrams (mg) of ascorbic acid.

·Many animals can make ascorbic acid in their bodies, but humans cannot.

·Humans must get ascorbic acid from foods, including fruits and vegetables.

·Ascorbic acid is also known as vitamin C.

The student wants to specify how much vitamin C is in kale. 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:

·Maya Lin is an American artist known for her memorials and works of installation art.

·She completed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

·It is a memorial sculpture consisting of two 246-foot granite walls, and it is designed to commemorate veterans of the Vietnam War.

·She completed Above and Below in 2007.

·It is an installation composed of aluminum tubing that fills an entire gallery ceiling.

The student wants to describe Above and Below to a new audience. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?