SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

A speaker at a recent children's book publishing conference noted that, while many illustrators do excellent work, in her mind, no one has ever ________ Kathleen Atkins Wilson's work as the illustrator of The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth: there is no better example of the form, according to the speaker.

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

The following text is adapted from Yone Noguchi's 1914 memoir The Story of Yone Noguchi. Noguchi is returning home after eleven years abroad.

I reached Tsushima, my native town, at evening, I frightened my old father at the station, who was actually trying to find me among some other people. There is no wonder that he could not recognise me; I must have changed a great deal.

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

The ________ Stacey Lee's book Outrun the Moon has been very positive. Many reviewers have praised the book, and it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

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

Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana weaves stories of triumph, using her unique method of applying colorful yarn to photographs of people. In some works, Villasana focuses on celebrating cultural icons who are people of color, as she does in her depiction of musician and composer Nina Simone. However, in other works, villasana honors ordinary people, as she does in her captivating portrayal of a woman making tortillas. Villasana sees both of these approaches as ways of depicting the power and interconnectedness of all people.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Community science involves professional scientists collaborating with members of the public to study a topic. This approach to research can promote community engagement by providing youth with learning experiences outside of the classroom. It's also very effective because it greatly increases the amount of data that can be collected, such as when biologist Grace Herzel and colleagues studied butterfly wing patterns and their relation to behavior and used findings reported by hundreds of students and community members in northwestern Arkansas.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

In the early days of television in the 1940s, many people thought that US television programs would rely on the financial support of ad agencies and commercial sponsors, much like radio did. But advertisers hesitated to jump into a new space, particularly at a time when the manufacturing of new television sets was stalled due to the US: involvement in World War II. Broadcasters, Like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), needed to persuade advertisers to support their programming despite not knowing whether there would be a robust television audience to begin with.

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

The following text is from Armando Palacio Valdes's short story "The Love of Clotilde," originally published in Spanish in 1884. In the story, Don Jeronimo is a financial supporter of artists in the theater.

Any youth from the provinces who arrived in Madrid with a drama in his pocket could take no surer road to seeing it produced than that which led to the home of Don Jeronimo. One and all, he received them with open arms, the good and the bad alike. There is no denying that, since he was rather brusque in his ways, he never spared the young authors who asked his advice and read him their productions, but criticized vigorously, even to the verge of insult.

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

Dubautia latifolia is a species in a family of plants known collectively as the silversword alliance, all of which grow only on the Hawaiian Islands. Members of this alliance exhibit an extraordinary range of phenotypes, with some species maturing into vines and others into shrubs and trees. All species in the alliance descended from a single ancestral tarweed plant that arrived on the islands around 5 million years ago. The tarweed's descendants diversified into distinct species as they adapted to live in the wide variety of habitats found on the Hawaiian Islands.

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

Believing that living in an impractical space can heighten awareness and even improve health, conceptual artists Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa designed an apartment building in Japan to be more fanciful than functional. A kitchen counter is chest-high on one side and knee-high on the other; a ceiling has a door to nowhere. The effect is disorienting but invigorating: after four years there, filmmaker Nobu Yamaoka reported significant health benefits.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

The musical Hadestown was produced off-Broadway in New York in 2016. A revised version of the musical premiered on Broadway in 2019, in a larger production, In a review of the Broadway production, theater critic Jesse Green enthusiastically praised the musical's storytelling. However, Green also explained that he had seen the earlier version of Hadestown in 2016 and had found the storytelling to be very confusing. This suggests that in Green's view, _________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Biologists Christina Zdenek, Damian Candusso, and their team exposed various snakes to airborne sound and recorded whether they moved toward or away from the sound. The table shows the results for three of the snakes observed in the study. Based on the table, a student concludes that Glory and Squishy behaved similarly in the sound trials.

Which choice best describes data from the table that support the student's conclusion?

Among the most visited art museums in the world, the Museo del Prado in Madrid had approximately 3.5 million visitors in 2019. The Museo del Prado also offers virtual tours that art lovers can view online for free. Although there were initial concerns that people who viewed the virtual tours would then consider an in-person visit unnecessary, museum administrators claim that their surveys of in-person visitors show that those concerns were unjustified.

Which statement, if true, would most directly support the administrators' claim?

Biochemists I. Sam Saguy and Eli J. Pinthus studied the mass and heat transfer processes that occur when foods, such as the Indian snacles dahibara aludam and paneer pakora, are fried in oil. During frying, water in the crust evaporates, leaving voids that oil can fill. thereby increasing the food's fat content. As the process continues, water from the food's center moves to the crust as long as the crust remains permeable. Therefore, the less moisture a food loses during frying, _________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

In a research paper, a student criticizes some historians of modern African politics, claiming that they have evaluated Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primarily as a symbol rather than in terms of his actions.

Which quotation from a work by a historian would best illustrate the student's claim?

With the short drama Kaashkitamaashoo, Cree director Chantelle Marie Anderson joined the growing number of Indigenous women adding their voices to North American _________ film, a selection of the Native Women in Film Festival, is about a woman exploring her Metis identity.

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

Working with equipment designed for a billionths of a meter scale, ________

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

Water hoils at around 212℉at sea level, but in Butte, Montana (elevation: 5,538 feet above sea level, it boils at around 202℉. Food writer J. Kenji Lojpez-Alt, who explores the science behind cooking, _________ that lower boiling points at higher elevations "can wreak all sorts of havoc on recipes."

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

In the early nineteenth century, some Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States used agricultural techniques developed by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people centuries earlier, but it seems that few of those farmers had actually seen Haudenosaunee farms firsthand. Barring the possibility of several farmers of the same era independently developing techniques that the Haudenosaunee people had already invented, these facts most strongly suggest that________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book's _________ when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars.

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

Helike, one of the eighty known moons of Jupiter is designated as Jupiter XLV ("XLV" means " 45°" ). Roman numerals typically indicate the order in which the moons were named rather than the order of their proximity to Jupiter. It is incorrect to assume, ________that Helike is the forty-fifth moon from Jupiter in terms of proximity.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Just as the Cavendish halance in physics is named not after its first inventor but after the natural philosopher who further developed the device, so too does the Chernoff bound in probability theory take its name from a ________ who was not the first to identify the mathematical bound.

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

Guard cells are specialized cells that are part of a plant's pores. These cells help regulate the amount of carbon dioxide a plant takes in. ________ they help regulate a plant's water loss.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Journalists have dubbed Gil Scott-Heron the "godfather of rap," a title that has appeared in hundreds of articles about him since the 1990s. ScottHeron himself resisted the godfather _________ feeling that it didn't encapsulate his devotion to the broader African American blues music tradition as well as "bluesologist," the moniker he preferred.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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

· Researchers in a 2021 study wanted to determine the rate at which 17 languages conveyed both information and syllables.

· They calculated the bits of information conveyed per second (the IR. or information rate).

· The IR was found to be approximately consistent across the 17 languages (an average of 39 hits per second).

· They calculated the number of syllables spoken per second (the SR, or syllable rate).

· Spanish had the second fastest SR (7.7 syllables per second).

· Vietnamese had the sixteenth-fastest SR ( 5.3 syllables per second).

The student wants to present an overview of the study's findings. 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 Los Ajos-La Madera Mountains are a mountain range located in northwestern Mexico.

· The range is one of the dozens of "sky islands" in the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

· A sky island is an isolated mountain range whose environment differs drastically from that of the surrounding lowlands.

· The US Forest Service (USFS) said, "The mountains are 'islands' surrounded by deserts that are 'seas."

· The USFS said, "Each Sky Island is a unique ecosystem."

The student wants to provide an example of a sky island. 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:

· Grimanesa Amoros is a Peruvian American artist well known for her LED light sculptures.

· Her sculpture Uros House is made of smooth multicolored LED domes,

· It occupies 250 cubic feet of space.

· Her sculpture Golden Connection is made of entangled blue and white LED tubes.

· It occupies 100,000 cubic feet of space.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Uros House and Golden Connection. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?