SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
●A soundscape refers to the sounds heard in a speciftic place.
●The Japanese Ministry of the Environment made a list of 100 soundscapes of Japan.
●Each soundscape on the list was selected for its cultural significance to Japan.
●The sound of black-tailed gulls at Hachinohe Port in Aomori Prefecture is on the list.
●Aomori Prefecture is on northern Honshu Island, Japan.
The student wants to specify where a soundscape of cultural significance to Japan can be heard. 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:

●Dinosaur fossil specimens can be found at science museums all over the world.

●Many dinosaur fossil specimens are given nicknames.

●The Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, houses a dinosaur fossil specimen nicknamed Pops.

●Pops lived in the Late Cretaceous period, which ended more than 65 million years ago.

●It is a member of the genus Triceratops.

The student wants to provide an example of a dinosaur fossil specimen's nickname. 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:

●Documentary TV programs in the slow TV genre consist of uninterrupted broadcasts of ordinary events in real time.

●MORA: Zeichner is a German slow TV program.

●The 45-minute-long program documented an artist making a pencil drawing during a train journey.

●It first aired in 2016.

●Slow TV has been called "the world's most boring television."

●American journalist Nathan Heller praises it, writing that "it affords a visceral kind of armchair tourism."

The student wants to use a quotation to refute the claim that slow TV programs are boring. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

In astrophysics, a ring of debris orbiting a larger object within the object's Roche limit is expected to persist as a ring, whereas a ring of debris orbiting outside this limit would likely accrete into a satellite (e.g., a moon). Bruno Morgado and colleagues, _______ detected a dense ring of material orbiting the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar at a distance of 2,500 miles, well outside the calculated Roche limit of 1,100 miles, that has remained intact.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In 1920, the US Geological Survey determined the geographic center of Montana using only a cardboard cutout of the state and a piece of string. _______ this apparently crude technique yielded a relatively close approximation: when the 1920 center was compared to a center determined by a computer program nearly a hundred years later, the two diverged by just a mile.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

As part of a study, participants were asked to list animals they thought of as "charismatic," which was defined as "attractive, fascinating, or appealing." Researchers compiled the responses into a single list and found that elephants were ranked higher than crocodiles. ________ elephants were ranked third, and crocodiles were ranked fifteenth.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

For the past 20 million years, Earth's magnetic poles in the far north and far south have remained roughly where they are today. This has not always been the___throughout geologic history, Earth's magnetic poles have swapped places several times through a process called polar wandering.

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

The 2020 documentary Without a Whisper---Konnon:Kwe was directed by Katsitsionni Fox. It explores how Indigenous Haudenosaunee culture shaped the woman suffrage movement in the early nineteenth _________ how the personal and political authority Haudenosaunee women had in their communities influenced the first suffragists in the US.

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

Round Rock Chapter, which covers 201,000 acres, is one of the 110 chapters of the Navajo ________ Diné bizaad (the Navajo language), the chapter is called Tsé Nikani.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Kizomba, a genre of dance that originated in Angola, has become an international ________ 2022, the Indian dance duo known as Elvis and Namrata defeated performers from around the world to win the annual olympiads of Kizomba competition held in Paris, France, becoming the first ever Asian winners.

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

An upcoming exhibition will showcase Vincent van Gogh's drawing Snowy Landscape with the Old Tower, which Van Gogh ______ in the city of Nuenen nearly 150 years ago.

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

Museo Castillo Serrallés, a history museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is one of more than eighty museums in the US territory. Puerto Rico's museums ________ visitors about everything from the territory's history to its architecture to its coffee.

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

Born in Chile in 1917, artist and ethnomusicologist Violeta Parra was a pioneer in the nueva canción chilena (Chilean New Song) movement that emerged in the late 1950s and then spread throughout Latin America, Portugal, and Spain as nueva canción. Parra traveled all over Chile compiling extensive records of authentic folk music as well as recipes, proverbs, and other facets of cultural history. These records formed the foundation for the early movement's revival of traditional Chilean folk forms in new songs that represented modern realities of the working class and strongly advocated for social change. As the movement spread beyond Chile, the breadth of musical traditions incorporated into its foundation also expanded.

Which detail about songs associated with nueva canción, if true, would best illustrate the underlined claim?

Michelle Pereira et al. hypothesized that introducing health improvements into workplaces would increase productivity by reducing absenteeism (sick employees not working) and presenteeism (sick workers working less productively due to illness). Pereira's team enrolled groups of Australian workers in two programs: one that gave employees exercise training (EET) and one that enrolled employees in health promotion seminars (EHP). They then calculated the productivity loss of those groups at 12 weeks and 12 months after the programs began (based on the 28 days preceding each point). They concluded that exercise training was more effective at restraining productivity loss than health promotion seminars were, though this result took time to become apparent.

Which choice best describes data from the table that most effectively strengthen Pereira and colleagues' conclusion?

To measure whether countries in free trade agreements (FTAs)---agreements among nations to reduce tariffs, duties, and other trade barriers---experience changes in total agricultural exports, economist Kayode Ajewole and colleagues calculated average export growth rates for several countries over the five years before and the five years after entering an FTA with the United States. The graph shows the results for three countries in the study. Consulting the graph, a student claims that joining an FTA increases the rate of growth of a country's total agricultural exports.

Which choice best describes data from the graph that weaken the student's claim?

Life Among the Paiutes is an 1882 autobiographical narrative by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Northern Paiute author, educator, and activist. In the work, Winnemucca directly addresses the reader to explain certain customs, writing ________

Which quotation from Life Among the Paiutes most effectively illustrates the claim?

To help combat the growing rate of microplastic pollution, a team of researchers developed a synthetic sponge that can soak up microplastic particles from liquid. The sponge, composed mainly of starch and gelatin, does this by trapping the tiny particles within its pores. Guoqing Wang, one of the researchers, says that the formula for the sponge can be adjusted to best suit the size of particle the sponge is intended to trap, making it versatile in its potential applications. Chemist Christian Adlhart, however, claims that this sponge would be difficult to mass-produce.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Adlhart's claim?

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum. In the novel, the narrator describes a character's house as having become very faded in appearance over time: ______
Which quotation from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz most effectively illustrates the claim?

Founded in 1991, the Museo de Las Americas showcases art from Latin America, including the art of Indigenous peoples. It is located in Denver and has more than 4,800 objects in its collection. Since 2000, a number of other institutions devoted to Latino cultures have opened in the United States. A notable example is LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles. It opened in 2011 and focuses on Mexican American art and culture.

Which contrast does the text draw between the Museo de Las Americas and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes?

Io is among Jupiter's four largest moons and was discovered in 1610 by Galileo. Advances in space exploration and imaging technologies have since enabled scientists to discover even more moons orbiting Jupiter. For example, scientists used the Voyager 1 space probe to discover Adrastea in 1979. And more recently, researchers discovered 12 moons using the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. As of 2023, the number of confirmed moons orbiting Jupiter was 95 , and scientists think further exploration will reveal more.

According to the text, in which year was Adrastea discovered?

Community science, which involves professional scientists collaborating with amateur science enthusiasts to study a topic, is often an effective and engaging way to conduct research. It can allow people to assist with conservation efforts, spark youth interest in science, and increase the amount of data researchers can collect. This approach was essential to the success of a study by biologist Abbigail Merrill and colleagues of how butterfly color relates to flower choice, which included findings from hundreds of students and community members in northwestern Arkansas.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

The following text is from Bram Stoker's 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm. Adam is meeting his great-uncle Richard at a port.

The meeting so auspiciously begun proceeded well. Adam, seeing that the old man was interested in the novelty of the ship, suggested that he should stay the night on board, and that he would himself be ready to start at any hour and go anywhere that the other suggested. This affectionate willingness to fall in with his own plans quite won the old man's heart. He warmly accepted the invitation, and at once they became not only on terms of affectionate relationship, but almost like old friends.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

Agglomeration economies arise when multiple firms in related industries ________ an area, as with iron and steel production firms and cutlery and hardware manufacturers in Wolverhampton, UK. Economists have assumed that companies cluster for the same reasons, but Giulia Faggio et al. found that factors driving agglomeration in some cases are only weakly correlated with agglomeration in others.

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

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction is a crowdsourced project started in 2001 by lexicographer jesse sheidlower to record terms that originated in science fiction. Volunteers share digitized excerpts from personal collections of sci-fi magazines not typically preserved in libraries--- _______ that allow the earliest uses of phrases such as "warp speed" (1952) to be identified and added to the dictionary.

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

The following text is from Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The narrator describes practicing the piano when she was a child.

For the talent show, I was to play a piece called "Pleading Child" from Schumann's Scenes from Childhood. It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. I was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. I never really listened to what I was playing. I daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.

1989 by Amy Tan

Based on the text, when the narrator describes herself as "cheating," what does she most likely mean?

During his career, Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona produced hundreds of compositions. Especially impressive is how ________ his body of work is: Lecuona showcased a diverse range of musical talents in different areas, from orchestral pieces and operas to popular film scores.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?