SeHan Digital Test 43 Module 1 (Set 127)

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects both 1

types of insulation workers to see job growth in the Which choice completes the text with the most
coming years. The number of floor, ceiling, and wall logical and precise word or phrase?
insulator jobs is __________ to rise from 23,300 to A awaited
29,400 between 2022 and 2032—a gain of 26 B anticipated
percent C apprehended
D forestalled

Mount Washington routinely experiences hurricane- 2

force winds, below-zero temperatures, and year- Which choice completes the text with the most
round snow. Still, as two intense systems—a logical and precise word or phrase?
high-pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean and a A splintered
low-pressure system over the Great Lakes— B converged
__________ near the summit, the observers knew C cleaved
that they might witness a unique weather event. D bifurcated

Harvard professor of energy Daniel Nocera’s 3

artificial leaf, which serves as the fuel source in the As used in the text, what does the word “captures”
bionic leaf, works by sandwiching a photovoltaic cell most nearly mean?
between two thin metal oxide catalysts. When A records
submersed in a glass of water at room temperature B describes
and normal atmospheric pressure, the artificial leaf C uses
mimics photosynthesis. Current from the silicon D conquers
solar wafer is fed to the catalysts, which split water
molecules: oxygen bubbles off the catalyst on one
side of the wafer, while hydrogen rises from the
catalyst on the wafer’s other side. Nocera has been
perfecting the artificial leaf since he first
demonstrated it in 2011; today, it is far more efficient
than a field-grown plant, which captures only 1
percent of sunlight’s energy. He says he can reach
efficiencies of 70 percent to 80 percent of the
underlying solar-wafer technology, which is
improving constantly.

Because most curbside recycling services will not 4

collect packing peanuts, less than 10 percent of them Which choice completes the text with the most
are recycled per year, and millions of tons end up in logical and precise word or phrase?
landfills, where they take years to decay. Purdue A attribute
University chemical engineering professor Vilas G. B retribute
Pol and his team were hesitant to discard the packing C contribute
peanuts and __________ to this history of waste. D distribute
Instead, they resolved to use their chemical expertise
to devise a solution.
In 1922, silent-film actor and director Harold Lloyd 5
was walking in downtown Los Angeles when he saw Which choice completes the text with the most
an unusual sight: a man climbing up the outside of a logical and precise word or phrase?
tall office building. A crowd was gathered, A pageant
mesmerized by the__________. B spectacle
C exhibition
D phenomenon

William Wordsworth was one of the founders of 6

English Romanticism and one its most central figures What is the main purpose of the text?
and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet A It describes the work of William
of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet Wordsworth.
concerned with the human relationship to nature and B It details the legacy of William Wordsworth.
a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary and speech C It talks about the life of William
patterns of common people in poetry. Wordsworth.
D It shows how important William
Wordsworth \was to English poetry.

The brightly-colored board game known as Parcheesi 7

was introduced into the United States in the late What is the overall purpose of the text?
1860s, but the game actually predates that debut. In A To offer a counterargument to a claim
1860, the British brought it from India, where it was B To give a brief historical outline
known as pachisi. But that game, too, has older C To explain the rules of a game
origins: it was derived from a game called chaupar D To point out a factual error
that is referred to in texts as early as 540 to 300 B.C.
The vegan diet has gained momentum in recent 8
years, with more people transitioning to the diet, What is the main purpose of the text?
whether for health or more ethically-based reasons. A It presents rationale for adopting an
The vegan diet, often characterized as very increasingly popular diet.
restrictive, is associated with health benefits but B It challenges a popular stereotype regarding
raises concerns. Controversy regarding the diet exists a certain diet.
within the public sphere, with some actively C It discredits the supposed benefits of a
supporting and advocating for it, and others popular diet.
questioning its purpose and proposed benefits, even D It introduces a study that analyzes different
disparaging its existence. A study led by Sarah Mann facets of a diet.
aimed to provide a fuller picture of the vegan diet in
which no animal products are eaten, encompassing
both the nutrition and health of the vegan diet. The
study also delved into related ethical beliefs by
studying scientific and popular literature in tandem.
Furthermore, the study aimed to provide an insider’s
perspective of the vegan diet as a means of
combating stereotypes and making the diet more
relatable to those who are not vegan.

Text 1 9
Paleontologists studying fossilized feathers have Which of the following would Moyer (Text 1) and
proposed that the shapes of certain microscopic Lindgren’s team (Text 2) would most likely agree
structures inside the feathers can tell us the color of on?
ancient birds. Alison Moyer of North Carolina State A Dinosaur coloration cannot be
University wanted to find out whether these reconstructed, since soft tissue degrades
structures could be definitively identified as either over time.
melanosomes or microbe. Using black and brown B Dinosaur coloration could plausibly be
chicken feathers— chickens are one of the closest deduced from the remains of certain
living relatives to both dinosaurs and ancient birds— microscopic structures.
Moyer grew bacteria over them to replicate what we C Dinosaur coloration was limited to certain
see in the fossil record. shades, ranging from black to brown.
D Dinosaur coloration is unlikely to have left
Text 2 identifiable traces in fossilized skin.
Lots of fossils are outlined or shellacked with a
mysterious dark deposit. For a long time, scientists
couldn’t be sure what the material was or where it
came from. Under the microscope, the material
housed tiny egg-shaped structures that looked like
melanosomes—the cell organelles that secrete
pigments into an animal’s skin. Other scientists
thought the structures might be bacteria. By studying
the molecular composition of the pigments, Johan
Lindgren of Lund University and his team not only
concluded that the deposits are pigment remains, but
also determined what those pigments were. They say
that three fossilized marine reptiles they studied—a
190-million-year-old ichthyosaur, an 86-million-
year-old mosasaur, and a 55-million-year-old
leatherback turtle—probably had blackish skin like
the modern-day leatherback turtle.
As “urbanity” increased—as sites became less rural 10
and more city-like— European rabbit burrow The figure best supports which statement regarding
became more common. Urban burrows were smaller the sample of burrow sites used in the study?
and simpler, like studio apartment compared to A Only one site had a burrow population less
country estates. And while rural burrows were spread than 4.
out and clumped, like the rural houses on our B A majority of sites had a burrow population
imaginary road trip, urban burrows were spaced out over 16.
more evenly. C None of the sites had an urbanity rating
greater than 1.
D The most common urbanity rating among
sites was -1.
On balance, being generous boosts your mood and 11
health because it strengthens your sense that you’re Based on information in the text, which of the
really doing something significant. The social following can reasonably be inferred about the
psychologist Sara Konrath of the University of majority of survey respondents represented in the
Michigan notes that helping others may signal our figure?
bodies to release pleasurable chemicals such as A They value volunteering because they have
oxytocin. The boost we get from helping may also a high degree of empathy.
mute our stress response, causing us to release fewer B They may have experienced decreases in the
jarring stress hormones such as cortisol and level of certain hormones after volunteering.
norepinephrine. C They are likely to live longer than are
volunteers who disagreed with the
statements
D They always have higher levels of oxytocin
circulating in their bloodstreams than do
nonvolunteers
The figure above shows the water concentration 12
within lunar glass bead green #5. According to the figure, at what distance from the
core is the water concentration within lunar glass
bead green #5 approximately 15 parts per million?
A 40 micrometers
B 60 micrometers
C 80 micrometers
D 100 micrometers

This text is adapted from Willa Cather’s 1913 novel, 13

O Pioneers! Which situation is most similar to that described in
the text?
John Bergson’s father speculated, lost his own A A teacher sees her female students
fortune and funds entrusted to him by poor seafaring outperforming her male students, and she
men, and died disgraced, leaving his children chastises the males for not working harder.
nothing. But when all was said, he had come up from B A small business owner is faced with
the sea himself, had built up a proud little business daunting new challenges, but her employees
with no capital but his own skill and foresight, and collaborate successfully to solve the
had proved himself a man. In his daughter, John problems.
Bergson recognized the strength of will, and the C A coach needs one of her players to step
simple direct way of thinking things out, that had forward and lead the team, but the player
characterized his father in his better days. He would who does so is not the one the coach
much rather, of course, have seen this likeness in one expected.
of his sons, but it was not a question of choice. As he D A shopkeeper works hard to ensure that her
lay there day after day he had to accept the situation daughter will have better opportunities than
as it was, and to be thankful that there was one she had, and the daughter eventually runs a
among his children to whom he could entrust the large corporation.
future of his family and the possibilities of his hard-
won land.
This text is adapted from Alexander McCall Smith’s 14
2013 novel, The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon. Which choice best states the main purpose of the
Mma Ramotswe married to Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni. text?
A To explain Mma Ramotswes sudden interest
Mma Ramotswe frowned. The No. 1 Ladies’ in taking business courses
Detective Agency was exactly the same size as it had B To present Mma Ramotswe’s reflections
been when she had founded it. It had one owner and about operating a small business
one employee, one vehicle, a filing cabinet, a kettle, C To describe Mma Ramontswe’s anxieties
two teapots and three mugs. There was also one about the future of her business
typewriter, which was operated by Mma Makutsi, D To analyze Mma Ramontswe’s past
and one box of stationery. These assets had been decisions about her business
there more or less from the beginning, although the
second teapot was certainly a later addition. Did that
count as growth? Could you say that your business
had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot
to two? Somehow she thought that Dr. Profit would
answer both those questions with a shake of his head.

This poem is adapted from Emily Dickenson’s poem 15

The Outlet, published after her death in 1886. What is the function of the image of a sea in the overall
structure of the text?
My river runs to thee: A It shows the difficulties of expressing love.
Blue sea, wilt welcome me? B It refers to the person that the author loves.
My river waits reply. C It represents the depth of the author’s love.
Oh sea, look graciously! D It indicates that the course of love is
I'll fetch thee brooks complicated.
From spotted nooks, —
Say, sea,
Take me!

Postal banking would indeed significantly expand 16

the range of the USPS’s duties. __________ US post Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
offices currently offer many similar products: “The to the conventions of Standard English?
post office already sells money orders, runs a huge A However, as Inspector General David C.
cash retail business, sells insurance on parcels, and Williams, notes,
cashes Treasury checks.” B However as Inspector General, David C.
Williams, notes
C However as Inspector General David C.
Williams notes
D However, as Inspector General David C.
Williams notes,

As early as the fifteenth century, books were 17

designed with ingenious devices that allowed a Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
reader to discover more on a page than what first met to the conventions of Standard English?
the eye. Some pages contained flaps that could be A illustrations, others
peeled back to reveal hidden __________ B illustrations, while others
incorporated discs that rotated, showing information C illustrations others
through windows cut into the page. D illustrations others
German artist and illustrator Lothar Meggendorfer 18
created a model of each book in its entirety. Once he Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
was satisfied with the arrangement of the moving to the conventions of Standard English?
pieces and other details, he__________ the artisans A is providing
with elaborately detailed instructions for how to B had provided
assemble each page. C provided
D provides

In addition to the “winner-take-all” concept familiar 19

to Monopoly players, Elizabeth Magie’s original Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
game featured a second set of rules allowing players to the conventions of Standard English?
to share the game’s properties, __________ equal A brought
benefits to all. B which brought
C to bring
D bringing

Pierre de Coubertin’s pentathlon, which awarded 20

Olympic medals for achievements in architecture, Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
literature, music, painting, and sculpture, to the conventions of Standard English?
__________ a part of every Olympic Games until A and which was
1948. B that was
C and was
D was

For scientist, effective communication is not simply 21

a way to reach popular __________ has practical Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
benefits for their work as searchers. to the conventions of Standard English?
A audiences, also, it
B audiences, also. It
C audiences, it also
D audiences; it also

Los Lobos's diverse influences are evident in the 22

variety of instruments the band plays, including the Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
saxophone, flute, harmonica, mandolin, guitarron, to the conventions of Standard English?
accordion, and banjo. Los Lobos's successful career A awards. Chart-topping
shows that wide appeal of rock en espanol: the band B awards; chart-topping
boasts multiple Grammy __________ hits in the C awards: chart-topping
United States, Great Britain, and several other D awards, including chart-topping
countries; and a 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
nomination.
Gwen Ifill had been making strides toward national 23
accomplishment as a journalist. By 1991, she Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
__________ a White House correspondent for the to the conventions of Standard English?
New York Times. Less than a decade later, she A has become
became the first African American woman to host a B became
nationally televised political talk show. C was to become
D had become

The appearance of flowers on a plant marks a change 24

from the plant's growth phase to its reproductive Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
phase. This change begins when a plant responds to to the conventions of Standard English?
environmental __________ such as temperature, by A cues,
flowering, eventually leading to the production of B cues:
seeds from which another generation of plants can C cues
grow. D cues;

When two scientists work together, __________ 25

become smarter than would be possible if working Which choice completes the text so that in conforms
independently. to the conventions of Standard English?
A he
B you
C they
D it

Aida Muluneh is a photographer from Ethiopia who 26

believes that photos can influence how the world Which choice completes the text with the most
perceives types of people. Muluneh wanted to logical transition?
expand upon this idea and bring photography to the A Similarly,
general public. __________ she founded Addis Foto B Finally,
Fest to allow different photographers to bring their C For these reasons,
work to the masses. D In conclusion,
While researching a topic, a student has taken the 27
following notes: The student wants to emphasize how Monte Kaolino
was formed. Which choice most effectively uses
- Monte Kaolino is a human-made mountain relevant information from the notes to accomplish
of sand in Bavaria, Germany. this goal?
A Amberger Kaolinwerke started mining
- It was created when the company Amberger kaolinite, a common mineral used in
Kaolinwerke started mining kaolinite, a porcelain, in Bavaria, Germany, in 1901.
common mineral used in items such as B Monte Kaolino has a height of 110 meters,
porcelain, toothpaste, and cosmetics. tall enough for people to ski down the sand
in summer.
- Mining kaolinite involves separating C Made of quartz sand, Monte Kaolino is
kaolinite from dirt and results in leftover known for summer skiing.
quartz sand, which the company started to D Monte Kaolino was created when the
pile up. company Amberger Kaolinwerke piled up
quartz sand, a byproduct of the company's
- By the 1950s, the pile of quartz sand had kaolinite mining process.
become quite large, reaching a height of 110
meters.

- It was tall enough that an adventurous skier

who wanted to practice in the summer skied
down the mountain.

- Monte Kaolino is now known for summer

skiing, along with other warm-weather
activities.
SeHan Digital Test 67 Module 2 (Set 200)
Despite the obvious advantages of wind farms, some 1
object to wind farms on aesthetic grounds, as they Which choice completes the text with the most
find the large turbines ugly. A more legitimate logical and precise word or phrase?
concern pertains to personal health. Some studies do A averse
show a relationship between wind turbine noise and B adverse
__________ health effects caused by annoyance and C adverted
sleep deprivation in up to 20 percent of residents D adversarial
living close to wind farms.

When Pol-e-Tabial opened to the pubic in October 2

2014, it __________the longest span of any Which choice completes the text with the most
pedestrian bridge in Tehran: 270meters, or 886 feet. logical and precise word or phrase?
A boasted
B bragged
C gloated
D boosted

According to a 2013 survey of employees in various 3

industries, companies benefit greatly when their Which choice completes the text with the most
employees believe they are fairly__________. logical and precise word or phrase?
Among employees who perceived their pay to be A consummated
fair, 78 percent reported feeling a sense of B corroborated
engagement (a measure of their belief in the C contrived
company’s values and their commitment to the D compensated
success of the organization). In contrast, only 33
percent of employees who did not believe pay
practices were fair reported feeling engaged with
their work.

The following text is from Ian McEwan’s 2001 4

novel, Atonement. As used in the text, what does the word “spirit” most
nearly mean?
She was one of those children possessed by a desire A temperament
to have the world just so. Whereas her big sister's B development
room was a stew of unclosed books, unfolded C vigor
clothes, unmade bed, unemptied ashtrays, Briony's D atmosphere
was a shrine to her controlling demon: the model
farm spread across a deep window ledge consisted of
the usual animals, but all facing one way—towards
their owner—as if about to break into song, and even
the farmyard hens were neatly corralled. A taste for
the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit.
Another was a passion for secrets: in a prized
varnished cabinet, a secret drawer was opened by
pushing against the grain of a cleverly turned
dovetail joint, and here she kept a diary locked by a
clasp, and a notebook written in a code of her own
invention In a toy safe opened by six secret numbers
she stored letters and postcards.
Whether in person or on screen, one of the strongest 5
influences on our thinking is woven into the verbiage As used in the text, what does the word “conjures”
all of us use in discussions big and small metaphors. most nearly mean?
Let’s say that we are comparing cities we have A charges
visited or would like to visit, and 1 mention one that B summons
I have not been to. but you have You say, “It’s a C enchants
massive, stinking cesspool filled with garbage and D practices
crawling with every form of filth imaginable.”
Immediately my mind conjures an image of a filthy
retention pond covered with scum, loaded with trash
and lousy with rats and roaches How close the
metaphor you have chosen is to actually describing
the city is debatable, but in the few minutes we are
speaking this doesn’t really matter.

CANDELS became the largest observing program 6

ever undertaken by Hubble. The telescope devoted Based on the text, what would the authors most
600 hours—fully 10% of its observing time—to likely say about conducting deep all-sky surveys to
CANDELS for three years, surveying an area of sky obtain information about ancient galaxies?
60 times larger than the HUDF, albeit to brighter A As practical
limiting magnitudes (about 27 for CANDELS B As unnecessary
compared to 30 for the HUDF). CANDELS targeted C As justified
five patches of the northern and southern skies, each D As incomplete
about one-fourth the angular size of the Orion
Nebula (M42). Each patch has been well studied
from radio to X rays, giving plenty of
complementary data across the electromagnetic
spectrum. Because remote galaxies are so faint, the
five target areas were away from our Milky Way’s
star-studded plane. Much as pollsters and medical
researchers learn about the human population as a
whole by studying carefully selected samples of a
small number of individuals, we chose the five target
areas because they’re physically representative of the
universe at large.
Norman Triplett of Indiana University recruited forty 7
children, ages eight to thirteen, to complete his study Based on the passage, the design of Triplett's
in 1897. He measured how quickly the students fishing-reel experiment most likely ruled out which
could wind a fishing reel so that a small flag attached potential objection to his findings?
to the line traveled a distance of sixteen meters. The A Improvements in the subjects’ performance
task as simple but novel, and none of the children after being asked to perform the task m front
had played with fishing rods before the experiment. of an audience may reflect the subjects’
They performed the task both alone and in the increasing competence at the task
presence of other children, and Triplett noticed that B Differences between the subjects’
they wound the reels faster in the presence of others. performance with an audience and their
He concluded that an audience enables people to performance without an audience may be
“liberate latent energy” not normally available when influenced by the subjects’ prior experience
they perform alone. Science doesn’t always tell with the task.
simple stories, and other researchers challenged C Variations in performance among the
Triplett’s groundbreaking results well into the subjects under either audience condition
twentieth century. may be attributed to variations in the
subjects' ages and physical development.
D Changes in the subjects' performance after
being put in front of an audience may result
from some subjects observing and imitating
the performance of more highly skilled
subjects.

Researchers led by Michael Montague, a postdoc at 8

the Washington University School of Medicine in St. According to the text, why is the discovery that some
Louis, sequenced the genomes of 22 domestic cats— genes in domestic cats influence the migration of
representing a wide variety of breeds and locations— neural crest cells important?
and compared them with the genomes of two Near A Neural crest cells are likely to be
Eastern and two European wildcats. The team found overlooked in analyses regarding the
five genes in domestic cats that influence the evolution of domestic animals.
migration of neural crest cells, stem cells in the B Neural crest cells are potentially responsible
developing embryo that affect everything from skull for domestic animals’ ability to thrive in
shape to coat color. This supports a recent proposal harsh environments.
that such cells may be the master control switches of C Neural crest cells are thought to be
domestication, explaining why domestic animals fundamental to the overall process of the
share common traits, such as smaller brains and domestication of animals.
certain pigmentation patterns. So why are cats still a D Neural crest cells are considered to be
bit wilder than our other favorite domesticate, the critical to domestic animals’ reproduction.
dog? Co-author William Murphy, a geneticist at
Texas A&M University, College Station, says the cat
genome appears to have undergone less intense and
more recent evolutionary pressure than that of dogs;
that’s not surprising, considering that dogs may have
lived with us for up to 30,000 years. “Cats were not
selected for a purpose like dogs and other
domesticates,” Murphy speculates.
Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that 9
migrating birds fly in a V formation, but scientists What is the most likely reason the author includes the
have long debated why. A new study of ibises finds 30 cm measurement in the text?
that these big-winged birds carefully position their A To demonstrate the accuracy with which the
wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to data loggers collected the data
catch the preceding bird’s updraft—and save energy B To present recorded data about how far an
during flight. The study, published in Nature, took ibis flies between successive wing flaps
advantage of an existing project to reintroduce C To provide the wingspan length of a juvenile
endangered northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) ibis
to Europe. Scientists used a microlight plane to show D To show how far behind the microlight
hand-raised birds their ancestral migration route plane each ibis flew
from Austria to Italy. A flock of 14 juveniles carried
data loggers specially built by Usherwood and his
lab. The device’s GPS determined each bird’s flight
position to within 30 cm, and an accelerometer
showed the timing of the wing flaps.

While I wasn’t around to witness the initial rejection 10

of Higgs’s proposal in 1964 (well, I was around, but Which statement best describes the technique the
only barely), I can attest that by the mid-1980s, the author uses to advance the main point of the last
assessment had changed. The physics community paragraph?
had, for the most part, fully bought into the idea that A He recounts a personal experience to
there was a Higgs field permeating space. In fact, in illustrate a characteristic of the discipline of
a graduate course I took that covered what’s known physics.
as the Standard Model of Particle Physics (the B He describes his own education to show
quantum equations physicists have assembled to how physics has changed during his career.
describe the particles of matter and the dominant C He provides autobiographical details to
forces by which they influence each other), the demonstrate how Higgs’s theory was
professor presented the Higgs field with such confirmed.
certainty that for a long while I had no idea it had yet D He contrasts the status of Higgs’s theory at
to be established experimentally. On occasion, that two time periods to reveal how the details of
happens in physics. Mathematical equations can the theory evolved.
sometimes tell such a convincing tale, they can
seemingly radiate reality so strongly, that they
become entrenched in the vernacular of working
physicists, even before there’s data to confirm them.
 11
Which choice most effectively uses data from the
table to complete the example?
A net profits never went below a quarter
million florins.
B the company saw only 138,249 florins of net
profit in 1826.
C 1825 and 1828 saw net profits of over half a
million florins.
D over one million florins were gained from
Japan in 1828 alone.

The Dutch East India Company, Vereenigde

Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), maintained a
monopoly on trade with Japan during its sakoku
period of strict isolationism. A single Dutch ship was
allowed to make port in Nagasaki each year, and a
variety of goods were exchanged. The most notable
export was Japanese copper, which the VOC would
then resell on the global market, in some years
providing relatively high profits for the VOC; for
example, __________

12
Which choice most effectively uses data from the
graph to complete the example?
A 20,000 years old.
B millions of years old.
C 5,000 years old.
D 40,000 years old.

According to Professor Kim Geon-Woo of Yonsei

University, humans have a built-in clock, one that only
starts “ticking” at the moment of death. This clock is
the “half-life” of their carbon-14. The half-life of a
radioactive material is the amount of time it takes for
half of a sample of that material to decay. All plants
and animals consume carbon-14 while alive. Once
they are deceased, however, the carbon-14 in their
remains begins to decay into nitrogen-14. By
measuring the amount of carbon-14 left in an organic
sample, scientists can precisely determine how old that
sample is, up to the point all the carbon-14 has totally
decayed. For example, paleontologists can use this
technique to date ancient human remains up to
__________
The following text is from Dinaw Mengeslu’s 2007 13
novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. What does the narrator’s descriptions of Naomi
Naomi, an eleven-year-old on a school break, is suggest?
visiting the narrator, a family friend from Ethiopia, at A She is notable for her empathy toward other
the store he manages. They have made a plan to read people.
the novel The Brothers Karamazov together. B She is notable for her ability to concentrate
and observe.
“One more,” she said at first. And when that page C She is notable for her talent for dramatizing
had been completed, she added another “one more” fiction.
to that, until eventually there were so many “pleases” D She is notable for her optimism despite
and “pretty pleases” and “come on, pleases” that I many hardships.
was left utterly defenseless. I looked up every couple
of pages to see if Naomi was still paying attention,
and of course she was. Her attention, in fact, never
seemed to waver. I felt her staring at me sometimes
when my eyes were focused on the page, and I
realized she was taking it all in. not just the words,
but me. and the scene that we had created together. I
tried not to notice too much, to simply just live, but
that was impossible. Every time I looked at her I
became aware of just how seemingly perfect this
time was.

The following text is from Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 14

novel, Sister Carrie. According to the text, how does Carrie judge the
performance of the actress who played the hero’s
That night the pretty little flat seemed a sweetheart?
commonplace thing. It was not what the rest of the A As inferior in certain respects to the
world was enjoying. She saw the servant working at performance that she believes herself to be
dinner with an indifferent eye. In her mind were capable of giving
running scenes of the play. Particularly she B As dissatisfying in its emphasis on physical
remembered one beautiful actress—the sweetheart grace over emotional authenticity
who had been wooed and won. The grace of this C As clumsy and melodramatic yet superior to
woman had won Carrie's heart. Her dresses had been the other actors' performances
all that art could suggest, her sufferings had been so D As difficult to watch because of the intense
real. The anguish which she had portrayed Carrie suffering it evoked
could feel. It was done as she was sure she could do
it. There were places in which she could even do
better. Hence she repeated the lines to herself. Oh, if
she could only have such a part, how broad would be
her life! She, too, could act appealingly.

The following text is Robert Frost’s 1923 poem, 15

Nothing Gold Can Stay. Which of the following best states the main purpose
of the text?
Nature’s first green is gold, A To note the capriciousness of nature
Her hardest hue to hold. B To lament the passage of time
Her early leaf’s a flower; C To examine the transience of beauty
But only so an hour. D To note the ephemeral nature of wealth
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Despite the obvious advantages of wind farms, some 16
detractors object to wind farms on aesthetic grounds, Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
__________ the large turbines ugly. to the conventions of Standard English?
A finding
B finds
C found
D and find

In 2012, an American historian asked a question that 17

had likely never been asked before: What’s behind Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
those patches? Mapmakers of Johan White’s era to the conventions of Standard English?
regularly used patches—small bits of paper glued on A was
top of the map—to edit mistakes in their work, so the B were
two patches covering parts of White’s sixteenth- C have been
century “Virginea Pars” map weren’t unusual. The D has been
first patch was a simple correction of White’s
original topography. Under the second patch, on the
other hand they found an exciting clue to the settlers’
whereabouts. At the fork of two rivers near the
settlement __________ two red stars outlined in
blue. Historians believe they indicated a secret fort—
the obvious place that Roanoke's settlers, if facing a
crisis, would have moved.

Whether or not companies decide making salary 18

information public is beneficial, they may find merit Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
in calculating salaries according to a formula that is to the conventions of Standard English?
shared with employees. Social media company A engineers make
Buffer, for example, determines salaries by taking B engineer makes
into account job type, seniority, experience, and C engineers have made
location. Every Buffer __________ a fixed base D engineer making
salary; a senior team leader merits an additional 7
percent, and intermediate experience multiplies the
salary by 1.1.

Benjamin Banneker studied the night __________ 19

how the migration of the stars relates to the passage Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
of time. to the conventions of Standard English?
A sky, he charted
B sky. Charting
C sky, charting
D sky, he also charted

There __________ a number of reasons that so few 20

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) units have Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
been built, despite the fact that CAES is one of only to the conventions of Standard English?
a few reliable ways to store energy from renewable A have been
energy sources. B has been
C is
D are
Author Samuel Johnson had come to realize that, like 21
all languages, the English language was __________ Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
that could not be preserved, only described. to the conventions of Standard English?
A a living changing thing
B a living, changing thing
C a living, changing, thing
D a living, changing, thing,

Many retailers rely on discount prices to attract 22

customers, and these companies’ executives and Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
managers often assume that they must maintain low to the conventions of Standard English?
employee costs to preserve these discounts. A benefits, and have done so,
However, in recent years, several retailers have B benefits—and they have done so
challenged this, offering better-than-average wages C benefits; and they have done so,
__________ while keeping costs down and D benefits and they have done so
performing well financially.

Current agricultural practices will not be able to meet 23

the needs of the world’s growing population, Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
__________ is expected to rise to 9.6 billion by the to the conventions of Standard English?
year 2050. A which
B that
C what
D of which

More experiments arc necessary to demonstrate the 24

viability of vertical __________ of public health and Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
environmental health sciences at Columbia to the conventions of Standard English?
University, believes could make cities nearly self- A farms, which Dickson Desnommier,
sufficient food producers. professor
B farms which Dickson Desnommier professor
C farms which Professor Dickson
Desnommier
D farms, which Professor Dickson
Desnommier

Only 14 of the race’s 32 runners even completed the 25

race, and Hicks won despite his feet not touching the Which choice completes the text with the most
ground as he was carried across the finish line. logical transition?
__________ Hicks’s winning time still holds a A Indeed,
record: it was the slowest winning time in Olympic B Rather,
history at 3 hours, 28 minutes, 53 seconds. C However,
D In contrast,
In 2011, author Hugh Howey demonstrated that self- 26
publishing (or indie publishing) could be quite Which choice completes the text with the most
lucrative when he sold half a million copies of his logical transition from the previous sentence to the
science-fiction series and made $150,000 per month information that follows?
from royalties. __________ Although authors can A Later, Howey signed a deal with a publisher
reap many rewards from self-publishing, they should to distribute the book in stores.
also be aware of the hard work it requires. B To this day, Howey retains exclusive rights
to e-book sales.
C However, Howey’s case is the exception, not
the rule.
D Howey’s series had started out as a short
story.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the 27

following notes: The student wants to explain the allegorical nature of
“Animal Farm.” Which choice most effectively uses
- “Animal Farm” is an allegorical novella by relevant information from the notes to accomplish
George Orwell, published in 1945. this goal?
- The story is set on a farm where the animals A “Animal Farm” is a satirical novella by
revolt against their human owner, Mr. Jones, George Orwell that tells the story of a group
and establish a new society. of animals who revolt against their human
- The novel serves as a satirical critique of owner and establish a new society on the
the Russian Revolution and the rise of farm.
Stalinism. B The characters in “Animal Farm” represent
- The characters in “Animal Farm” represent various historical figures and factions
various historical figures and factions involved in the Russian Revolution, serving
involved in the Russian Revolution and its as a critique of Stalinism and the dangers of
aftermath. totalitarianism.
- The story explores themes of power, C Set on a farm where animals overthrow their
corruption, and the dangers of human owner, “Animal Farm” explores
totalitarianism. themes of power, corruption, and the perils
of unchecked authority through its
allegorical representation of the Russian
Revolution.
D As an allegorical novella, “Animal Farm”
uses the story of a farm animal rebellion to
satirize the Russian Revolution and critique
the rise of Stalinism, highlighting the
destructive effects of animal exploitation.
SeHan Digital MATH Test 1 Module 1 (Set 1)
Rachel discarded exactly 45 percent of the pens that 1
she owned. Which of the following could be the total
number of pens that she has left? A 22
B 24
C 26
D 28

In 2005, a toy manufacturer found that an estimated 2

4 out of every 15 dolls produced posed a safety
hazard to young children. If the manufacturer A 1.6 million
produced 6 million dolls in 2005, which of the B 4.4 million
following is closest to the estimated number of dolls C 4.6 million
produced by the manufacturer in 2005 that do NOT D 4.8 million
pose a safety hazard?

A 14
B 15
C 16
D 18
The table above gives the atomic mass, to the nearest
amu, of 15 different elements. Based on the table,
what is the median atomic mass, in amu, of these
elements?

Which of the following expressions is NOT equal to 4

0 for some value of x?
A (x + 1)2
B √𝑥 + 1
C √𝑥 + 1
D |𝑥 + 1|
In a recent study comparing two high schools, a 5
random sample of students from School A and a
random sample of students from School B were A Students from School A read more because
surveyed. The results of the study indicated that 85% School A has better teachers.
of the students from School A spend at least 3 hours B Students from School A read more because
each day reading, while 70% of the students from students from School A study harder.
School B spend at least 3 hours each day reading. If C There is evidence that students from School
the margin of error for both samples were the same, A read more than students from School B.
which of the following statements is best supported D There is evidence that students from School
by the study's results? A read more fiction novels than students
from School B.

Oleg is deciding between renting and buying an 6

apartment. The purchase price is $180,000. If he
rents it, he will pay $1,100 in rent each month, in A x < 144
addition to monthly fees of $150 for utilities and B x > 144
parking. If x represents the number of months he C x < 164
stays in the apartment, what are all the values of x D x > 164
for which buying the apartment is less expensive
than renting it?

A -4
B 0
C 3
D 4

The graph above shows the function g. What is the

value of g(3)?

A 7
13

A company decides to investigate whether the mode B 31

of transportation taken to work affects its employees 52
arrival to work. The results for a given day are shown
C 28
in the incomplete table above. If there are 50 more
45
employees at the company who commute by train
than by car, what is the probability that an employee D 28
who was on time that day took the train? 131
An environmentalist studied a random sample of 30 9
rivers in China to determine whether there is a
relationship between water pollution levels and the A For rivers in China, there is a negative
number of fish. She found significant evidence that association between water pollution levels
water pollution levels are lower in rivers with large and the number of fish.
numbers of fish. Based on the results, which of the B For all rivers, there is a negative association
following conclusions is most appropriate? between water pollution levels and the
number of fish.
C For rivers in China, an increase in water
pollution levels causes a decrease in the
number of fish.
D For all rivers, an increase in water pollution
levels causes a decrease in the number of
fish.

10

A |x|≤3
B |x|≥3
C |y|≤3
D |y|≥3

Which of the following inequalities is represented by

the graph in the xy-plane above?

The number of criminal cases in a state district is 11

recorded over the course of five years, as shown in
the table below. A Increasing linear
B Decreasing linear
C Exponential growth
D Exponential decay

Which of the following best describes the

relationship between time and the number of cases
during the five years?
A chemical reaction between a block of sugar and 12
sulfuric acid can be modeled by the equation
s = 27 - 3a, where a is the amount of sulfuric acid, in A It takes 9 milliliters of sulfuric acid to react
milliliters, used in the reaction and s is the amount of with 3 grams of sugar.
sugar, in grams, left after the reaction. What does it B It takes 9 grams of sugar to react with 3
mean for (9,0) to be a solution to this equation? milliliters of sulfuric acid.
C It takes 9 milliliters of sulfuric acid to react
with 27 grams of sugar.
D It takes 9 grams of sugar to react with 27
milliliters of sulfuric acid.

In a circle with center C and radius 6, minor arc AB 13

has a length of 4. What is the measure, in radians,
of central angle ACB? A 2𝜋
9
B 𝜋
3
C 2𝜋
3
D 4𝜋
3

h = -6f2 + 36t + 12 14

The height of a model rocket is modeled by the A h = -6(t + 3)2 + 42

equation above, where h is the height of the rocket, B h = -6(t - 3)2 + 66
in meters, and t is the number of seconds after C h = -6(t2 - 6t - 2)
launch. In which of the following equations do both D h = -6(t -2)(f - 4)+60
the maximum height of the rocket and the number of
seconds it takes the rocket to reach the maximum
height appear as constants or coefficients?

A Belgian chocolate company sells milk chocolate 15

bars for $5 each and dark chocolate bars for $7 each.
Each milk chocolate bar costs $2 to make and each A 7m - 5d≥5,000
dark chocolate bar costs $5 to make. The company 2d - 5m≤2,800
projects total sales to be at least $5,000 and total B 5m + 7d≥5,000
costs to be at most $2,800 for its chocolate bars this 2m + 5d≥2,800
month. Which of the following systems of C 5m -2m≥5,000
inequalities represents the possible number of milk 7d – 5d≤2,800
chocolate bars m and dark chocolate bars d the D 5m + 7d≥5,000
company makes and sells to meet its projections? 2m + 5d≤2,800
A radioactive element decays over time, losing 8 16
percent of its mass every 5 years. If scientists have
collected an initial 500 grams of this element, how A 41
much will be left, to the nearest gram, after 30 years? B 258
C 303
D 330

Phil has a bank account that earns 6 percent interest 17

compounded annually. His initial deposit was
$10,000. After 5 years, he withdraws $4,000. What is A $5,898
the total amount of money he has earned in interest B $6,233
from the account after 10 years (to the nearest C $6,556
dollar)? D $6,743

18

A 3
B 7
C 13
D 21

Functions f(x) = x 2 - 2 x + 1 and g(x) = x 2 —10 x + 25

are graphed in the xy-plane above. If the graphs of f
and g are tangent to the x-axis and intersect at the
point (h, k), what is the value of h + k?

If x - 2 and x + 1 are both factors of the polynomial 19

p(x), which of the following could be p(x)?
A p(x) = x3 - 2x2 - 5x + 6
B p(x) = x3 - 4x2 + x + 6
C p(x) = x3 - 6x2 + l1x - 6
D p(x) = x3 - 7x - 6
Two right circular cylinders A and B have the same 20
volume. The radius of cylinder A is 20% longer than
the radius of cylinder B. Which of the following A The height of cylinder B is 14% greater than
statements correctly describes the relationship the height of cylinder A.
between the heights of the two cylinders? B The height of cylinder B is 20% greater than
the height of cylinder A.
C The height of cylinder B is 24% greater than
the height of cylinder A.
D The height of cylinder B is 44% greater than
the height of cylinder A.

21

A 6
B 12
C 18
D 24

In the xy-plane above, a line with a slope of 4

intersects a parabola at the origin and at the point
(h,k). If the vertex of the parabola is at (2, -8), what is
the value of k?

The difference between two numbers is 30. One of 22

the numbers, x, is 20% less than the other number.
What is the value of x?
Your Answer: __________
SeHan Digital MATH Test 1 Module 2 (Set 2)
Lianna plays a card game in which she gets 5 points 1
for every red card she draws but loses 10 points for
every black card she draws. By the end of the game,
Lianna drew 7 times as many red cards as black Your Answer: __________
cards for a final total of 75 points. How many red
cards did she draw during the game?

Your Answer: __________

In the figure above, AB, BC, CD, DE, and EA are line
segments. What is the value of x 4- y?

Microwave Time Frequency 3

(seconds)
30 10
60 4 Your Answer: __________
90 x
120 3
The table above gives the distribution of microwave
times, in seconds, for a random sample of frozen
meals. If the mean microwave time of these meals is
72 seconds, what is the value of x?

1 4
𝑔(𝑥) =
√𝑥 + 10 − 9
For what value of x is the function g above
undefined? Your Answer: __________
 5

Your Answer: __________

In the figure above, points A, B, and D lie on the

same line. If AB = 18, BE = 8, and DE = 6,
what is the value of sin A?

A chess set comes with 32 pieces and a checkers set 6

comes with 24 pieces. If a board game club decides
to buy a chess sets and b checkers sets, which of the A 32a – 24b
following expressions represents how many more B 32b – 24b
chess pieces than checkers pieces they will receive? C 32a + 24b
D 56a – 56b

2−5 7
Which of the following is equal to
2−3

A 1
28
B 1
4
C 4
D 215

If 4b = 7, what is the value of 12b-3? 8

A 18
B 21
C 24
D 27
Which of the following is equivalent to the 9
expression
2𝑎2 𝑏 − 3𝑎𝑏 2 + 𝑎𝑏 A 2𝑎2 𝑏 − 3𝑎𝑏 2 + 1
𝑎𝑏 B 2𝑎2 𝑏 − 3𝑏 + 𝑎𝑏
C 2a – 3ab2 + ab
D 2a – 3b + 1

John is a member of a recreational bowling league. 10

His bowling scores from 2006 to 2015 can be
modeled by the equation p = 80.5 + 16.8t, where t A The total number of points John scored in
represents the number of years since he joined the 2006
league in 2006 and p represents the average number B The average number of points John scored
of points he scored per game. Which of the following per game in 2006
is the best interpretation of the number 16.8 in the C The yearly increase in the average number
equation? of points John scored per game
D The average number of games John played
each year

1
If 𝑐 −3 = 𝑥, where 𝑐 > 0 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 > 0, which of the 11
following equations gives c in terms of x?
A 𝑐 = −𝑥 3
B 3
𝑐 = √𝑥
C 1
𝑐= 3
√𝑥
D 1
𝑐= 3
𝑥

An apartment complex charges tenants $3.50 per 12

1,000 gallons of water used and $12.00 for trash
removal each month. Which of the following A 0.00035g + 12
expressions represents a tenant's total monthly B 0.0035g + 12
charges, in dollars, for g gallons of water used and C 0.035g + 12
trash removal? D 3.50g + 12
 13

A −3 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 4
B −2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 4
C −2 < 𝑥 < 0 and 3 < 𝑥 ≤ 4
D −3 ≤ 𝑥 < −2 and 0 < 𝑥 < 3

The function 𝑦 = 𝑓(𝑥), defined for −3 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 4, is

graphed in the xy-plane above. Which of the following
gives all values of x for which f(x) is negative?

A factory ships boxes of calculators to schools. Each 14

shipment can be modeled by the equation
w = 0.3n + 2, where w is the total weight of the A The weight of the box used in each shipment
shipment, in pounds, and n is the number of B The weight of each calculator
calculators in the shipment. Which of the following C The minimum number of calculators in each
could be the meaning of the number 2 in the shipment
equation? D The average weight of each shipment

𝑎2 15
If 8a2=3(a2+b) and b≠ 0, what is the value of ?
𝑏

A 1
5
B 3
5
C 5
3
D 5

Two restaurants x miles away from each other are 16

positioned a inches apart on a certain map that is
drawn to scale. What is the distance, in inches, on the A 𝑎
map between two restaurants that are y miles apart? 𝑥𝑦
B 𝑥𝑦
𝑎
C 𝑎𝑦
𝑥
D 𝑎𝑥
𝑦
 17

A 7
12
B 3
4
C 7
9
D 12
7

Right triangle ABC is shown in the xy-plane above.

What is the value of tanA?

Bob can finish painting a house in 4 days. Carl can 18

finish painting a house in 6 days. Which of the
following equations can be used to find the number A 𝑑 𝑑
of days d that Bob and Carl would need to finish + =1
4 6
painting one house working together? B 4 6
+ =1
𝑑 𝑑
C 𝑑 𝑑
+ = 12
4 6
D 4 6
+ = 12
𝑑 𝑑

When 5x + 3 is divided by x + m, where m is a 19

𝑟
constant, the result can be written as 5 + .
𝑥+𝑚
What is r in terms of m? A 3 − 5m
B 3m − 5
C 5m + 3
D 8m

—2x + 6y = 10 20
—3x + 9y = 18
How many solutions (x, y) are there to the system of A zero
equations above? B one
C two
D more than two
If 2(b — 3) — 3(2b + 5) = —33, what is the value of 21
b?

Your Answer: __________

6
For what value of 𝑘 is 5 − = −13? 22
𝑘

Your Answer: __________