SAT Pastpaper with Solutions

Novelist Leon Forrest admired William Faulkner's writing style. Forrest's novel Divine Days contains a long passage in tribute to Faulkner that is a perfect ____ of Faulkner's style: anyone familiar with Faulkner's writing would see the resemblance.

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

The 4 Africa Exchange in Johannesburg. South Africa, is a dedicated exchange for investing in companies operating in South Africa, ensuring those companies receive certain regulatory oversight. Knowing this can ___ potential investors' worries about bureaucratic minutiae and thereby allow them to instead focus on identifying sound business opportunities.

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

The tendency to group authors together into distinct literary movements often encourages literary scholars to ___ subtleties in an authors style. Those studying the works of Antonio Machado, for instance, May inadvertently overlook nuances in his work by focusing only on the most obvious ways in which his style corresponds to the Generation of 98.

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

The following text is adapted from Louise Erdrich's 2020 novel The Nightwatchman. Louis Pipestone is collecting signatures for a petition from fellow members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa on the tribe's reservation in North Dakota. Louis Pipestone tended the petition like a garden. He kept it with him at all times. In town. his eyes sharpened when he noticed a tribal member who hadn't yet signed. Wherever they were---at the gas pump.mercantile [general store], at Henry's [Café], on the road, or outside the clinic and hospital---Louis cornered them. If they were waiting for a baby to be born, he'd have them sign. If they were laughing. If they were arguing. If they were taking a child home from school, they signed.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

In Ojibwe, an Indigenous language from the Great Lakes region of what are now the United States and Canada, was a means "far." whereas wa-wasa means "far apart."This phenomenon, in which an element of a root word is repeated, sometimes with modification, within another word that is related to the root word, is called reduplication. In this case, the element "wa" in wasa gets repeated in wa-wisa. There are many examples of this type of reduplication in Ojibwe.

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

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic waste. Areas of the ocean with higher concentrations of microplastic particles also have smaller and fewer waves. A study by Yukun sun and colleagues found that the concentration of microplastic particles cannot be the only reason for this reduced wave activity because the concentration of particles that would have the observed effect is much higher than that found in these areas of the ocean. However, they found that surfactants. chemicals often used to manufacture plastics, are released into the water from microplastics and have a much stronger wave-reducing effect.

According to the text, what did Sun and colleagues discover about surfactants?

Artificial leaves are a developing renewable energy technology that mimics the process of photosynthesis in plants. These devices are silicon-based solar cells coated in chemical catalysts that activate reactions that split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The technology, while generating lots of interest, is not yet commercially viable as a large-scale energy source. To meet this challenge, scientists from many fields are researching ways to store. transport, and distribute the energy the devices produce while other scientists are working to improve the cost and efficiency of the devices.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is a student in a geography class. The student wants to compare the total area covered by his tribal nation in South Dakota with the total areas covered by certain tribal nations in other states. Looking at the table, he finds that the area of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is 4,419 square miles, while the area of the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho is ____

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

Which choice best describes data from the table that support Potzelsberger and colleagues' conclusion?

Esther Sanyé-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their team surveyed three groups of people in Bologna, Italy-leaders of urban agriculture projects, stakeholders in urban agriculture (e.g., food researchers and urban farming associations), and the general public-to compare their views about the extent to which urban agriculture contributes to 25 social or ecological services that the team identified, The researchers used these ratings to rank the services for each group, with a ranking of 1 indicating that a group perceives that urban agriculture benefits that service the most. Using only the rankings shown in the table, a city planner in Bologna who is promoting a new urban agriculture project concludes that advertisements aimed at the general public should emphasize the project's benefit to the provision of medicinal plants.

Which choice best describes data in the table that support the city planner's conclusion?

Veronica L.Bura, Akito Y.Kawahara, and Jayne E. Yack investigated the evolution and function of sound production in silk moth and hawk moth caterpillars. They found that during harmless simulated attacks on isolated caterpillars,33% of the tested species produced sound, which ranged from clicks in Actias luna to whistles in Phyllosphingia dissimilis. Although some insects use sound to communicate with members of the same species, the researchers claim that the caterpillar sounds recorded in their study are directed primarily at predators.

Which finding. if true, would most directly support Bura and colleagues claim?

Over 600 languages are spoken in New York City in addition to English-one can find Acehnese spoken in the neighborhood of Astoria, or Greek in Auburndale. Many immigrants from north China, where Mandarin is the primary language, reside in the neighborhood of Flushing (part of New York City's borough of Queens) while those who emigrated from south china, where many people speak Cantonese or Fuzhounese as a first language, tend to reside in Chinatown, in the borough of Manhattan. Among speakers of Chinese languages, those in flushing tend to speak Mandarin as their primary language while those in Chinatown tend to speak Cantonese or Fuzhounese as their primary language. This is most likely because____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Arthurian legends (tales related to the character of King Arthur) derive from many sources, such as Englynion y Beddau, composed between the 9th and 10th centuries. and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the 1300s.One of the most significant sources, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, was written in Latin in the 1130s; some material from it was later adapted by the Norman poet Wace into the Roman de Brut in 1155.But while no source before 1155 includes references to the famous Round Table at which Arthur's knights assembled, both the Roman de Brut and Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends, Le Morte d'Arthur, do. It can therefore be inferred that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

While other even-toed ungulate species, such as the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), are among the most populous animal species on earth, the Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) has a total population between700 and 800 ___ one of the criteria required for a species to be considered endangered.

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

William Clark's image was printed on $10 US banknotes in 1901, making the famed explorer and former governor one of many nonpresidents ____ on Us currency.

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

Many experts, like lawyer and cycling advocate Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez, have proposed bike travel as one possible way to alleviate congestion on the busy roadways of Los Angeles County, California. Indeed, local bicycle paths like the Palos Verdes Drive bicycle ___ have become an increasingly popular means of travel for commuter and recreational trips alike.

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

Virginia,____5,729 feet in elevation, reaches its highest point at Mount Rogers.

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

While the greater adjutant can be found in places like the Inner Gulf of Thailand and Manchar Lake in Pakistan, more than 80 percent of this endangered stork species is found in Assam, India. There, wildlife biologist Dr. Purnima Devi Barman is on the front lines of conservation efforts ____ through community involvement and scientific study, aim to bring adjutants back from near extinction.

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

In knot theory (the mathematical study of curved, closed loops), knots are characterized by their crossing numbers---that is, the number of times the knotted thread crosses over itself. The trefoil knot and the figure-eight knot, each with a crossing number below five, ____ among the simplest possible knots with the fewest number of crossings.

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

At 3,033 years old, CMC 3, a giant sequoia(Sequoiadendron giganteum) located in the United States, was one of the oldest known trees in the world.
With over three millennia of climate data in its tree rings, a single tree like this, claims ___Valerie Trouet, can tell the history of the world.

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

Space scientist Allison Barto is excited about the potential of the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Telescope, the JWST is primarily an infrared telescope. Most light from distant galaxies is infrared; ____the JWST can provide Barto and her team much more information about these galaxies than the Hubble could.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

During many historic New York City parades, including the 1924 ticker-tape parade for Us Olympic champions, the ribbonlike swirls descending on the scene were paper spools from "tickers," telegraph machines that were used to transmit stock prices.__________the tickers had long since been retired by the time of the parade for the New York Rangers in 1994. Then, shredded standard paper enriched the celebration.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

. Birds of Northern South America is an identification guidebook by ornithologists Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lentino.
. lt lists the thirty-five hummingbird species found in Suriname.
. The horned sungem is a medium-sized hummingbird found in suriname.
. lt is identifiable by its distinctive multicolored, tufted crown and its short, black, straight bill.
. The ruby-topaz hummingbird is a small hummingbird found in Suriname.
. It is identifiable by its crimson crown and its short, black, curved bill.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a difference between the two birds?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
. The French Republican calendar replaced the Gregorian calendar in France from 1793 to 1805;
. Both calendars are divided into twelve months.
.The timelines for the months don't match.
.The third month of the French Republican calendar. Frimaire, begins during November. the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar.
.The tenth month of the French Republican calendar, Messidor, begins during June. the sixth month of the Gregorian calendar.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the French Republican and Gregorian calendars. 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 Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a ten-point scale that orders minerals by hardness based on their ability to scratch other minerals.
.Minerals with larger numbers are harder than minerals with smaller numbers and can leave visible scratches on them.
.Minerals with smaller numbers are softer than minerals with larger numbers and cannot leave visible scratches on them.
.The mineral talc has a Mohs scale number of 1

.The mineral calcite has a Mohs scale number of 3
.The mineral quartz has a Mohs scale number of 7

The student wants to compare the hardness of the three minerals. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

.Ynes Mexia was a Mexican American botanist.
.Between 1917 and 1938, she collected over 150,000 botanical samples throughout the Americas.
.She collected a sample of Heterocondylus alatus in Minas Gerais, Brazil, on October 10.1930.
.She collected a sample of Brickellia diffusa in Jalisco, Mexico, on November 23, 1926.
.These specimens are part of the Asteraceae family.
.They can now be viewed online at the c.v. Starr Virtual Herbarium.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to begin a narration of Mexia's collection of Heterocondylus alatus?