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RT.6.24.V4.1.

M1

JUN 24
Make time to take the practice test.
It is one of the best ways to get ready
for the SAT.
This version of the SAT Practice Test is for students who will be taking
the digital SAT in nondigital format.

Hard work pays off. Good luck, students! (cố lên các bé iu)
Reading and Writing (Test RT.6.24.V4.1.M1)
27 QUESTIONS

____________________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS

The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).

All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.

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The way in which individual elements are balanced within Stars form in cloudlike swirls of gas and dust that
a photographic image tends to affect how viewers cannot be touched, but astrophysicist Nia Imara
perceive it: symmetry tends to give the elements equal believes these formations need not remain completely
importance, asymmetry emphasizes differences, and _____ to researchers: she uses simulation data and
radial balance (organizing the elements around a central sophisticated 3D printers to produce interactive
point) emphasizes the center over the periphery. What a models of these stellar nurseries.
photograph conveys is therefore largely _____ how it is
balanced. Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase? A) regrettable

A) reserved for B) explicable

B) inhibited by C) intangible

C) contingent on D) repeatable

D) obligated to

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Categorical claims about the original function and Often, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is given to a single
significance of the Ufra Man—a statue of a human figure person, such as Irving Langmuir in 1932. But scientists
found in what is now Turkey and dating from around recognized with a Nobel Prize do not often conduct
11,000 year ago—should be treated _____. We simply do their work in _____ the scientific community. Instead,
not know enough about the people of the time to say with success in fields like chemistry is usually achieved
certainty what the statue meant to them. through direct cooperation with other experts, as was
the case for George Smith, who was among those
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and awarded for “the phage display of peptides and
precise word or phrase? antibodies."
A) indulgently
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
B) skeptically
and precise word or phrase?
C) reverentially
A) isolation from
D) individually
B) deference to
C) collaboration with
D) competition with

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The following text is from José Rizal’s 1891 novel The Shedding light on the thermal biology of fungi, research
Reign of Greed (translated by Charles Derbyshire in 1912). by Radamés Cordero et al. indicates that certain
A lady accompanied by her husband entered at that mushrooms (including Marasmius capillaris and species
moment and took her place in one of the two vacant from the genus Russula) can achieve a hypothermic
boxes. She had the air of a queen and gazed disdainfully state through evaporative cooling. Effects of this
at the whole house, as if to say, “I’ve come later than all thermoregulation were not limited to the fungi’s
of you, you crowd of upstarts and provincials, I’ve come fruiting bodies and root-like hyphae: temperature
later than you!" There are persons who go to the theater reductions were observed in the air immediately
like the contestants in a mule-race: the last one in, wins, surrounding the mushrooms. Though slight, the
and we know very sensible men who would ascend the reductions inspired an air-cooling device; using
scaffold rather than enter a theater before the first act. approximately 400 grams of mushrooms, the team's
prototype lowered the air temperature in a controlled
Which choice best describes the function of the environment by 10°C in forty minutes.
underlined sentence in the text as a whole? Which choice best describes the function of the
A) It illustrates the lady’s contemptuous attitude toward underlined portion in the text as a whole?
the other people in the theater. A) It presents a tangential finding about
B) It helps explain why some people are especially thermoregulation in certain fungal species that
perceptive of the social dynamics at theaters. the experiment described later in the text was
C) It emphasizes a character’s dedication to her career. designed to explain.
D) It conveys the urgency some theater patrons feel to B) It provides empirical evidence to bolster the claim
be the first ones to arrive at a performance. made earlier in the text that certain fungal species
maintain a hypothermic state.
C) It identifies an unexpected observation that
motivated the study of evaporative cooling in
fungi that is discussed earlier in the text.
D) It establishes a finding central to the text’s
discussion of a practical application resulting
from the team’s study of fungal thermal biology.

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The following text is from Armando Palacio Valdes’s A contraction of “you all,” the pronoun “y’all" has long
short story “The Love of Clotilde.” originally published been used as a plural version of “you" in the South and
in Spanish in 1884. In the story, Don Jeronimo is a in Black communities around the US. In recent decades,
financial supporter of artists in the theater. most other English-speaking communities in the US
Any youth from the provinces who arrived in Madrid have begun to use “y’all." What explains its rise in
with a drama in his pocket could take no surer road to popularity? Many varieties of English have no pronoun
seeing it produced than that which led to the home of that specifically addresses more than one person and
Don Jeronimo. One and all, he received them with open instead must use “you’’ to address both one person and
arms, the good and the bad alike. There is no denying more than one. But “y'all” always refers to two or more
that, since he was rather brusque in his ways, he never people. As a result, it conveys the speaker’s meaning
spared the young authors who asked his advice and more precisely than “you” can.
read him their productions, but criticized vigorously,
Which question does the text most directly attempt to
even to the verge of insult.
answer?
A) How many other plural versions of the pronoun
Which choice best describes the function of the
“you" are there in English, besides “y’all”?
underlined portion in the text as a whole?
B) When was the first recorded use of the pronoun
A) It conveys Don Jeronimo’s lack of interest in "y’all” in the English language?
continuing to support playwrights. C) Is “y’all” commonly used in English-speaking
B) It explains Don Jeronimo's view of the quality of regions of the world besides the US?
theatrical works of the time. D) Why has the pronoun “y’all" become more widely
C) It creates a contrast between the talent of a young used in the US?
playwright and that of Don Jeronimo.
D) It emphasizes the degree to which Don Jeronimo’s
support is consequential for inexperienced
playwrights.

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Many people use the trademark “Kleenex” to refer The SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, has
generally to facial tissue rather than specifically to around 4,500 works of art. Digital images of hundreds
products made by Kimberly-Clark, the company that of those works have been put online through the
owns the trademark. As legal experts note, this may museum’s website and the Google Arts & Culture
pose a problem for Kimberly-Clark. In the US, courts project. One of the images is of The Card Game, a
can cancel a trademark if they decide that its meaning is painting by Jacob Lawrence. In a paper, a student
no longer specific to the trademark owner's products. If claims that putting a work from the museum online
“Kleenex” were judged to have become a generic term, increases the number of people who experience that
as “cellophane" was, other companies would be free to work.
use it to promote similar products, making it harder for
Kimberly-Clark to stand out from competitors. Which finding, if true, would most directly support the
underlined claim?
What does the text suggest about the term
A) Many people who have been to Savannah say that
“cellophane”?
the SCAD Museum of Art is worth visiting.
A) It is the subject of great debate among legal B) Each year, more people access the online image of
experts. The Card Game than visit the SCAD Museum of Art
B) It once referred to a specific product made by a in person.
particular company. C) The SCAD Museum of Art has several works by
C) It has recently become surprisingly popular for Jacob Lawrence.
unknown reasons. D) The Card Game has been praised by some art
D) It was never intended by its creator to be used as a critics.
trademark.

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In a study of interactions between plants, researchers Carolina Laura Morales and Anna Traveset gathered data about
flowering plants growing alongside each other in various locations. In each case, the researchers identified one plant as a
“target species’’ and a nearby plant as a “neighboring species.” An example of a neighboring species is the sticky catchfly,
which grows alongside the common cow-wheat in ______

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

A) Spain.
B) the United States.
C) Japan.
D) Sweden.

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It is common for freshwater lakes near or above a latitude of 45° north of the equator, like Opeongo Lake in Canada, to
accumulate surface ice in winter. The amount and duration of ice depends on many factors, including local weather
conditions as well as the lake's depth, volume, and surface area, but a climate researcher claims that some lakes in these
latitudes have seen a decline in the duration of ice between the early 1980s and the mid- 2000s. She cites as a typical
example _____

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the researcher's example?
A) both Lake Neusiedl and Oulujarvi, which had fewer than 195 days of ice in the winter of 1980-81.
B) Oulujarvi, which had fewer days of ice in the winter of 2005-06 than it did in the winter of 1980-81.
C) Lake Neusiedl, which had more days of ice in the winter of 2005-06 than it did in the winter of 1980-81.
D) both Lake Neusiedl and Oulujarvi, which had more than 100 days of ice in the winter of 2005-06.

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13

Urban agriculture is the practice of growing plant' or animal-based products in urban settings such as community gardens
and rooftop farms. Esther Sanyé-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, (missed)

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the assertion?

A) increasing global biodiversity than to offering educational opportunities.


B) providing food than to preventing soil erosion.
C) providing food than to providing tourist attractions.
D) preventing soil erosion than to providing food.

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All stainless steel contains varying amounts of iron, An upcoming exhibition will showcase Vincent van
carbon, and corrosion-inhibiting chromium. However, Gogh's drawing Snowy Landscape with Stooping
ferritic stainless steel, often used for induction cookers, Woman, which Van Gogh _____ in the city of Nuenen
contains a higher percentage of chromium (at least nearly 150 years ago.
10.5%) than does austenitic stainless sleet and a higher
concentration of iron, which is responsible for its Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
magnetic properties. Unlike ferritic stainless steel, the conventions of Standard English?
austenitic stainless steel has a face-centered cubic
A) is completing
crystalline structure resulting from the addition of nickel
B) will complete
to the alloy. Austenitic stainless steel has two subtypes:
the 300 series, often used for storage containers, and the C) completed
200 series, which has less nickel and more nitrogen than D) has been completing
the 300 series and is used for home water tanks. Thus,
stainless steel used to manufacture storage containers
will have _____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) similar magnetic properties to stainless steel used to


manufacture induction cookers
B) a lower percentage of nickel in its composition than
stainless steel used to manufacture induction
cookers will.
C) a face-centered cubic crystalline structure, while
stainless steel used to manufacture induction
cookers will not.
D) a concentration of nitrogen greater than 10.5%,
while stainless steel used to manufacture home
water tanks will not.

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While the greater adjutant can be found in places like the In 1987, chemist Ahmed Zewail devised a novel
Chao Phraya River in Thailand and the Teknaf Game technique in optical spectroscopy that allowed him to
Reserve in Bangladesh, more than 80 percent of this study ultrafast chemical reactions occurring within
endangered stork species is found in Assam, India. There, molecules. Years later, he _____ for this
wildlife biologist Dr. Purnima Devi Barman is on the front groundbreaking research with the Wolf Prize in
lines of conservation efforts that—through community Chemistry and the Robert A. Welch Award and hence
involvement and scientific _____ aim to bring adjutants would become known as the father of
back from near extinction. femtochemistry.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? the conventions of Standard English?
A) study A) is honored
B) study, B) would be honored
C) study: C) will be honored
D) study— D) had been honored

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Navajo artist Sally Black's mastery of traditional weaving Solarpunk is an art movement that imagines
techniques is apparent in her expertly crafted baskets, renewable energy-powered technology infused
which typically are woven from sumac (a textured and complementarily into nature. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s
flexible material) and _____ bold colors. solarpunk short story “Efficiency,” an artificial
intelligence that absorbs sustainable energies,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to redistributing them through intricate networks of
the conventions of Standard English? weights and generators, ______ Chicago's energy grid.
A) had featured
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
B) were featuring
the conventions of Standard English?
C) featured
A) powers
D) feature
B) are powering
C) power
D) have been powering

20 21

In Los Angeles County, California, bicycle paths such as Within Earth’s biomes, there are four main types of
the Legg Lake bicycle path—which is 2.2 miles long— desert: arid, semiarid, coastal, and cold. The Kyzylkum
have become an increasingly popular means of travel. Desert in central Asia is a semiarid desert, for _____ a
Moreover, lawyer and cycling _____ has identified several total area of about 300,000 km2, it is also one of the
features of the Los Angeles landscape, like its temperate largest deserts of any type.
climate and mostly flat roads, that make the city
naturally bike-friendly. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
A) example with
the conventions of Standard English?
B) example and with
A) advocate, Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez,
C) example, with
B) advocate Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez,
D) example. With
C) advocate, Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez
D) advocate Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez

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The first documented use of the English word Courses on African American history can be found at
“humiliation" is attributed to poet Geoffrey Chaucer's colleges and universities across the US. For example,
1386 work “The Parson's Tale." However, Chaucer didn't historian Jeanne Theoharis teaches courses at
write in Modern English; _____ he wrote in what we now Brooklyn College about the Civil Rights and Black
call Middle English, which was commonly used Power movements. _____ at Virginia Tech University,
during the period. historian Paula Marie Seniors teaches courses about
Africana studies.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition? Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A) for this reason,
B) instead, A) In other words,

C) furthermore, B) Thus,

D) likewise, C) In particular,
D) Elsewhere,

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The Coastal Futures Conservatory in Virginia is known for While researching a topic, a student has taken the
creating aural representations of ecological data. One such following notes:
effort combines underwater audio recorded in seagrass • In a 2021 study, researchers showed participants an
beds with data that track rising carbon levels in the unaltered image of a popular character or logo
seagrass. As carbon levels increase, the audio is alongside two slightly altered versions.
correspondingly distorted; ______ listeners can "hear" the • The Bic logo contains a cartoon man holding a pen.
changes in the carbon levels. • In the first alteration, the man was holding a pencil.
• In the second alteration, the man was holding
Which choice completes the text with the most logical nothing.
transition? • Participants were asked to identify the correct
version.
A) by comparison,
• 65.3% of participants selected the unaltered image.
B) thus,
C) for instance, The student wants to present a finding from the study.
D) furthermore, Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A) When participants were asked to identify the
correct version of the Bic logo, 65.3% selected
the unaltered image.
B) Participants were asked to identify the correct
version of the Bic logo, which contains a
cartoon man holding a pen.
C) The Bic logo contains a cartoon man holding a
pen, but in one of the altered versions, the man
was holding a pencil.
D) In a 2021 study, researchers asked participants
to identify the correct version of the Bic logo.

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• Cinematographers work with cameras and lighting. • Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is a band from the
• They help translate film directors’ ideas into visual United States that was created in 1996.
images. • The band’s sound combines the genres of hard rock
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) was directed by Ron and classical music, with an epic assembly of nearly
Howard. fifty musicians that includes over a dozen singers.
• Bradford Young was the film’s cinematographer. • Musicians are regularly invited to perform with TSO
on tour.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the • Electric violinist Mark Wood toured with TSO from
given sentences to provide an example of a film Young 1999 to 2008.
worked on? • Guitarist Bill Hudson toured with TSO in 2015.
A) In filmmaking, directors work with others to Which choice most effectively uses information from
translate their ideas into the visual images that we the given sentences to emphasize the role Mark Wood
encounter on the screen. played when performing with TSO?
B) Cinematographer Bradford Young and director Ron A) Musicians Mark Wood and Bill Hudson both
Howard have worked together. toured with the genre-bending band TSO.
C) One example of Bradford Young’s work as a B) It was from 1999 to 2008 that electric violinist
cinematographer is the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Mark Wood performed with TSO.
Story. C) From electric violinist Mark Wood to guitarist Bill
D) As cinematographer, Bradford Young works with Hudson, musicians of all backgrounds have taken
cameras and lighting to translate the film director’s the opportunity to perform with TSO.
ideas into visual images. D) From 1999 to 2008, Mark Wood performed with
TSO as a touring electric violinist.

STOP
If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this module only.
Do not turn to any other module in the test.

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