May 2023 Digital SAT

Reading
The following text is from John Matheus's 1925
novel Fog. The story happens in a city where
., _
heavy fog has set in. 1. As used in the text, what does the word
"registered" most nearly mean?
The little conductor stood on tiptoe in an
A) enrolled
effort to keep one hand on the signal rope,
craning his neck in a vain and dissatisfied B) valued
endeavor to pierce the miasma of the fog. The C) disregarded
motorman chafed in his box, thinking of the D) displayed
drudging lot of the laboring man. He
registered discontent.
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The Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, is

a massive mosque that can accommodate
Which choice completes the text with the
approximately 200,000 people at once, making
most logical and precise word or phrase?
it an sight to behold.
A) idealized
B) intricate
C) imposing
D) illusory

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Although fewer companies trade their stocks
on the Tehran Stock Exchange in Tehran, Iran,
than on the stock exchanges in London, 3 Which choice completes the text vvith the
Mumbai, or Tokyo, the Tehran Stock Exchange most logical and precise word or phrase?
has the advantage of focusing on local A) irrelevant to
companies and thus reflecting economic B) prohibitive in
circwnstances that are Iran. This C) distinctive to
sensitivity to unique, rapidly evolving local D) unchanging in
conditions benefits the companies and investors
alike.

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In a study by Mika R. Moran, Daniel A.
Rodriguez, and colleagues, residents of
Caracas, Venezuela, and of Fortaleza, Brazil, 4 Which choice best describes the function of
were surveyed about parks in their cities. Of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
the 1,043 respondents from Caracas, 44.7%
A) It introduces a counterexample to the
indicated that they use the city's parks, and of
scenario described earlier in the text.
the 938 respondents from Fortaleza, 35.7%
B) It provides context to help understand the
indicated using city parks. It may be tempting
scope of the researchers' survey.
to assume the difference is due to different
C) It marks a shift from a discussion of the
levels of access to parks: however, given that
researchers' conclusion to a discussion
the percentage of Caracas respondents who
of their methods.
reported living within a 10-minute walk of a
park was much lower than that reported by D) It presents a potential explanation for the
Fortaleza respondents, greater proximity alone team's findings that the text goes on to
can't explain the difference in park use. refute.

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The following text is adapted from Anton

Chekhov's 1899 play Uncle Vanya. Professor 5 Which quotation from Uncle Vanya most
Serebrakoff retires and moves to his country effectively illustrates the claim?
estate, which Vanya manages with the help of A) Professor Serebrakoff says, "I am a
Sonia, the professor's daughter from a previous book worm and a scholar, and am
marriage. Chekhov portrays the professor as
unfamiliar with practical affairs. I
being someone adjusting to living at the cannot, I find, dispense with the help of
country estate, as is evident when well-informed people:'
B) Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, "My
darling, don't leave me alone with
[Vanya]. He \-\rill begin lecture me:'
C) Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, "I
am used to my library and the lecture hall
and to the esteem and admiration of my
colleagues. Now I suddenly find myself
plunged into this wilderness (the cottage),
condemned to see the same stupid people
from morning till night and listen to their
futile conversations:'
D) Vanya says to Professor Serebrakoff, "You
write on art without knowing anything
about it. Those books of yours which I
used to admire are not worth one copper
kopeck. You are a hoax!"

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The following text is from Jerome K. Jerom's
1889 novel Three Men in a Boat.
6 Which choice best states the main
We are creatures of the sun, we men and
purpose of the text?
women. We love light and life. That is why we
A) To indicate that crowded areas can cause
crowd into the towns and cities, and the
people to feel as though they are children
country grows more and more deserted every
again
year. In the sunlight-in the day time, when
Nature is alive and busy all around us, we B) To caution people not to be so quick
like the open hillsides and the deep woods to dismiss the natural beauty that can
well enough: but in the night, when our be found in rural areas
Mother Earth has gone to sleep, and left us C) To address common traits that motivates
waking, oh! the world seems so lonesome, many people to choose to live in urban
and we get frightened, like children in a silent environments
house. Then we sit and sob, and long for the D) To illustrate the idea that most people
gas-lit streets, and the sound of human voices, tend to prefer hillsides in the country to
and the answering throb of human life. certain aspects of towns and cities

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Falcons and horses can see in three dimensions
(3D), which helps them perceive distance and
depth. Octopuses and squid thought to lack 3D
version. Many researchers once though the 7 Which choice best describes the main idea
same about cuttlefish, but Trevor Wardill and of the text?
his team wanted to test whether this A) cuttlefish eyes are much more
assumption was true. The team studied how complex than those of falcons or
cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses reacted to 3D
horses.
images of shrimp (a favorite prey) projected on
B) Wardill's team designed 3D glasses
a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed their striking
for cuttlefish.
position to match the 3D images, suggesting
C) Before completing their study,
that their vision is more like that of falcons and
horses than that of octopuses or squid. Wardill' team thought that cuttlefish
have 30 vision, but horses may not.
D) The finding of Wardill's team's
study suggest like falcons and
horses, cuttlefishes may also have
3D vision.

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President Richard Nixon is most famous for his
participation in the 1970s Watergate political
scandal a convoluted tale of criminality and Which choice best states the main idea of the
eroded ethics involving a constellation of text?
associates such as White House Counsel Chuck A) Chuck Colson and John Dean were
Colson and White House Counsel John Dean. significant figures i11 the presidency
But Nixon's legacy is complex: he has been of Richard Nixon.
praised for his role in creating the B) Richard Nixon is commonly linked with
Environmental Protection Agency, and he once an infamous historical event, but this
made an attempt at reforming United States overshadows some of his notable
health care policy that is arguably a precursor achievements.
to the Affordable Care Act, which became C) Some of Richard Nixon's
law during the Barack Obaina administration. policies influenced the policies
of later presidential
administrations.
D) Richard Nixon's reputation is primarily
due to the actions of his associates.

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Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer. In one

portion of the novel, Toomer uses figurative 9 Which quotation from Cane most effectively
language to connect the narrator's urban illustrate the claim?
environment of Washington, DC, and the
A) "The [train] engines of this valley have a
rural South of the narrator's past, writing
whistle, the echoes of which sound like
iterated gasps and sobs. I always think
of them as crude music:'
B) "And when the wind is from the South,
soil of my homeland falls like a fertile
shower upon the lean streets of
[Washington, DC]"
C) "I sang, with a strange quiver in my
voice, a promise-song:'
D) "The young trees had not outgrown their
boxes then. V Street [in Washington, DC]
was lined with them:'

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Many believe that lullabies, characterized by
their less steady beat, contain some acoustic
features that are universally calming to infants. Which finding, if true, would most directly
In a study, Constance M. Bainbridge and support Bainbridge and colleagues claim?
colleagues played both a lullaby sung in the A) The heart rates of infants in the study
Western Nahuatl language and a non-lullaby were more irregular during the lullabies
sung in the Serbian language to a group of than during non-lullabies.
infants. 1he researchers also measured the B) Parents of infants in the study chose the
infants' heart rates, as a reduced heart rate is lullaby over the non-lullaby when asked
considered a measure of relaxation. They claim which song they Infants' use to calm their
that the lullaby did indeed relax the infants. child.
C) Infants' heart rates were substantially
lower during the lullaby than during the
non-lullaby.
D) Both the song in Western Nahuatl and the
song in Serbian were sung by a female
singer.

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Contributions of Three Key Industries to
Oklahoma Economy in 2017

Industry Approximate contribution

11 Which choice uses data from the table to
most effectively complete the comparison?
Real estate $ 18,314,700,000
A) surpassed the contribution made by
Tribal economic activity $ 7,312,400,000 administration/waste but fell short of that
Administration/waste $ 5,830,600,000 made by real estate.
B) exceeded the contribution made by both
The Cherokee Nation, the Seminole Nation, administration/waste and real estate.
and the more than thirty other tribes in
C) was greater than the contribution made
Oklahoma operate numerous businesses and
by real estate but equal to that made
collectively generate billions of dollars in
by administration/waste.
revenue. In fact, when the tribes' activity is
D) was lower than the contribution made
regarded as a single industry, its contribution
by either administration/waste or real
to the Oklahoma economy in 2017 _
estate.

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Water flowing around an obstruction creates
vortices (patterns of swirls) of varying size;
by detecting the vortices, fish can determine
the size and position of the obstruction.
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12 Which finding, if true, would most
directly support the second research team's
Testing by Yuzo R. Yanagisuru, Otar hypothesis?
Akanyeti, and James A) A study using obstructions that
C. Liao using models of three head shapes created large vortices in low-visibility
narrow (low ratio of width to length), conditions found that the narrow-
intermediate, and wide (high ratio of width to headed lake sturgeon (Acipenser
length)-showed that for large vortices, fish
Julvescens) bumped into obstructions
With intermediate heads would be better able more often than the intermediate-
than narrow, headed fish to distinguish between
headeddusky smooth hound (Mustelus
vortices and general turbulence in the water. A
canis) did.
second research team has therefore
B) A study using obstructions that created
hypothesized that in low-visibility conditions,
large vo1tices in low-visibility
intermediate-headed fish will be more likely
conditions found that the lake sturgeon
than narrow-headed fish to detect obstructions
(Acipenser fulvescens), which has a
that create large vortices.
relatively narrow head, bumped into
more than half of the obstructions.
C) A study using obstructions that created
large vortices in low-visibility
conditions fow1d that some specimens
of the intermediate-headeddusky
smooth hound (Mustelus cants)
bumped into the obstructions more
often than other specimens of the same
fish did.
D) A study using obstructions that created
large vortices in low-visibility
conditions found that the intermediate-
headed dusky k smooth-hound
(Mustelus cants) avoided more than
half of the obstructions.

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In a college course on urban affairs, a student!
asserts that increased traffic congestion in the
1990s in the United States was present both in Which choice best describes data from the
very large cities such as New York City, New York, and graph that support the student's claim?
smaller areas such as Albuquerque, New A) In at least one of the four urban areas
Mexico, Jacksonville, Florida, and Boise, Idaho; shown, the amount of traffic delay was
less than 20 hours per commuter per year
though those smaller area may have been less affected
at one point between 1990 and 2000.
by traffic congestion than very large cities, this
B) While the annual number of hours of
congestion also worsened in them over time traffic delay per commuter was always
lower in the Boise, Idaho, area than in the
New York City, New York, area for each
year between 1990 and 2000, the amount
of traffic delay rose in both areas during
this period.
C) Even though the amount of traffic delay
per commuter per year was greater in the
Albuquerque, New Mexico, area than in
the New York City, New York, area
throughout the period from 1990 to 2000,
the amounts were nearly identical in
1996.
D) In 1992, the amount of traffic delay in
the New York City, New York, area was
less than 30 hours per commuter per
year.
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 14 Ranking of Environmental and Sociocultural Benefits of Urban
Agriculture (scale of 1 to 25; l=highest)

Social or ecological service Project leaders Stakeholders General public

improvement of attitudes and outlooks 8 1 4
provision of food 4 15 8

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provision of raw materials 22 25 15
improvement of physical health 5 4 7
enhancement of pollination l 7 12

Esther Sanye-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their

team surveyed three groups of people in
Bologna, Italy-leaders of urban agriculture Which choice best describes data in the table
projects, stakeholders in urban agriculture (e.g., that support the city planner's conclusion?
food researchers and urban farming A) The improvement of physical health
associations), and the general public-to compare was ranked lower for the general public
their views about the extent to which urban than it was for project leaders.
agriculture contributes to 25 social or ecological B) The provision of raw materials was
services that the team identified. The researchers ranked higher for the general public than
used these ratings to rank the services for each was the improvement of attitudes and
group, with a conclusion that both stakeholders outlooks.
and general public regard the improvement of C) The improvement of attitudes and
attitudes and outlooks as important benefit of outlooks was ranked higher for
urban agriculture. stakeholders than it was for the general
public.
D) The improvement of attitudes and
outlooks was ranked higher for the
general public than were the other four
services.

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Like many other fruit-eating birds on the
Hawaiian island of Oahu, the red-whiskered bulbul
helps forest plants spread by dropping seeds
15Which choice most logically completes the
text?
from the plants' fruits in different spots (a process A) on Oahu, the rate of population increase
called seed dispersal). Ecologists have found that is higher for non-native plants than it is
fruit-eating birds disperse some seeds from native for vulnerable native forest plants, like
plants at risk of extinction in the wild, such as the lapalapa trees.
lapalapa tree. However, the birds disperse a highest B) night-blooming jessamine shrubs and
number of seeds from night-blooming jessamine other non-native forest plants only
shrubs and other non-native plants with large
recently began to outnumber native forest
populations, likely because there are so many
more of those plants for them to choose from. plants in the wild.

Therefore, it isn't surprising that ; C) on Oahu, native plants, such as the

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; lapalapa tree, are already growing in most
;
;
of the spots where red-whiskered bulbuls
; would be likely to drop plant seeds on
i Oahu.
; D) the lapalapa tree and the night-blooming
;
; jessamine shrub are the plant species
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; most in danger of going extinct in the
;
wild.

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Sarah Marquis, who walked 16,000 kilometers

across Asia, Siberia, and Australia, undoubtedly
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Which choice completes the text ·with the
accomplished much, but to a most logical and precise word or phrase?
lasting historical legacy for oneself, almost A) recognize
nothing is more effective than being the first
B) w1dermine
to do something. For example, people will
C) constrain
always remember that Anesia Pinheiro
Machado was the first female pilot in Brazil D) establish
to carry passengers and the first to make stunt
flights.
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Text 1
The poet Audre Lorde once claimed that
poetry is the most inexpensive of art forms to
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Based on the texts, how would Lorde (Text
practice. While people who pursue other art
1) most likely respond to the argument
forms sculpture, architecture, long-form prose
presented in Text 2?
require large blocks of uninterrupted time as
A) By indicating that those poets who
well as money to complete their work, poets
publish in major poetry journals are
can write, as Lorde said, "between shifts, in
most likely to be able to earn a living by
the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps
writing poetry
of surplus paper." So poets can make
B) By pointing out that people can produce
worthwhile art even if they must earn their
valuable poetry in other circumstances
living in another way.
than those described by the author of
Text2 Text2
Any assessment of the state of contemporary C) By suggesting that those artists who
poetry must reckon with the professionalization specialize in more financially rewarding
of the field. While it is possible in theory for artistic forms are unlikely to also be
anyone to publish in Virginia Quarterly Review, successful as poets
Kenyon Review, or a similar major poetry D) By asserting that people often work
outlet, many people who do so have full time jobs in order to afford the
professional training in poetry and extensive professional training described in Text 2
practice writing it, which requires time not
often available to those who must also work
full-time jobs. Thus, financial security
indirectly affects which people become poets.

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The Yellow Admiral, first published in 1996, is a Which choice best states the main idea of the
novel in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin text?
series, which includes twenty books plus an A) Over time, the Aubrey/Maturin series has
unfinished fragment of a twenty-first. Like the ]required the same eminence among
rest of the books in the series, The Yellow critics as orks like In Search of Lost
Admiral has a rather abrupt ending, but the Time that have similar structures.
following book, The Hundred Days, picks up B) A certain understanding of the structures
neatly where The Yellow Admiral leaves off. of the novels in the Aubrey/Maturin
Thus, the sudden ending is only an issue if one series is helpful if one wishes to
considers the books as independent texts-the appreciate the series.
Aubrey/Maturin series is best thought of as a C) Many readers find the Aubrey/Maturin
single incredibly long work, similar to other novels to be remarkably entertaining
multivolume stories, such as Marcel Proust's In despite flaws in the novels' structures.
Search of Lost Time. D) The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred
Days are two of the most complex of
O'Brian's novels due in part to their
unconventional structures.
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The following text is from Mary Shelley's 1818
novel Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, who
narrates this portion of text, describes the state
of scientific knowledge as he began his own
stud) of the natural world.
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Which choice best describes the main idea of
the text?
A) Victor became disappointed in science
when he realized that the practical
The untaught peasant beheld the elements
knowledge laypeople have of nature is
around him and was acquainted with their
often deeper than the scientific
practical uses. The most learned philosopher
understanding.
knew little more. He had partially unveiled
the face of Nature, but her immortal B) Victor was impressed by the
lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. layperson's practical understanding of
He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; nature but thought science provided a
but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their clearer understanding.
secondary and tertiary grades were utterly C) Victor was immediately impressed by
unknown to him. I had gazed upon the the advantages of the scientific approach
fortifications and impediments that seemed to to understanding natural phenomena. )
keep human beings from entering the citadel D) Victor thinks that conventional scientific
of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had approaches to understanding natural
repined. phenomena will not yield the answers he
seeks.

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 Minimum and Maximum Depths of Stony Coral
Species in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Waters

Species
Minimum depth
(meters)
Maximum depth
(meters)
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Which choice most effectively uses data
from the table to complete the statement?
A) Agaricia undata, because its minimum
Plerogyra discus 8 15
depth of 20 meters is in the shallow
Acropora zone.
8 25
echinata
B) Plerogyra discus, because its
Psammocora
1 28 maximum depth of 15 meters is furthest
albopicta
Agaricia undata from the mesophotic zone.
20 80
C) Acropora echinata, because its
Some scientists have suggested that as ocean ; maximum depth of 25 meters is close to
temperatures rise, many fish and corals found but doesn't reach the mesophotic zone.
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in the shallow zone (less than 30 meters below i D) Psammocora albopicta, because its
minimum depth of 1 meter is the
the surface) could take refuge in the cooler, ;darker ;; shallowest of those listed.
mesophotic zone (30 to 150 meters below the
surface). However, it isn't clear that all such species 'i
will be able to tolerate mesophotic conditions. In 2018
Luiz Rocha and colleagues studied stony corals in the
two zones in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific waters.
Based on the depths at which those corals are !
now found, the species that seems least suited
to a full migration to the mesophotic zone is
______

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The Harlem Renaissance, which gave us great literary

works like May Miller's play The Bog Guide and
21 Which choice most logically completes
nonliterary works like James Van der Zee's photograph the text?
Couple, Harlem, is often said to have ended in the A) if a cultural movement has both literary
1930s shortly after the Great Depression began. But and nonliterary innovations, then it is
some scholars argue that the Harlem Renaissance
likely to be influential.
never really ended because it continues to shape
culture in the United States today. These scholars B) if a cultural movement is very
therefore suggest that _________ innovative, then it is unlikely to be able
to sustain itself for long.
C) if e literary works of a cultural
movement are influential, then it doesn't
matter whether the unliterary works are.
D) if the influence of a cultural
movement continues, then in some
sense the movement itself continues.

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Architects looking for inspiration may examine
photographs of iconic buildings such as the
Forbidden City in Beijing. A two-
dimensional photograph, however, cannot
capture how a building interacts with its
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Which choice most logically completes the
text?
A) serves to exaggerate the
surroundings, whether by complementing,
building's historical importance.
blending in with, or perhaps even dashing
B) fails to convey the full impact of
with sights and activities nearby. An image of
the building's design and
the Forbidden City thus
structure.
C) misrepresents how the building is
perceived by people who have
never visited Beijing.
D) conceals the subtle deterioration of the
building's materials.

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little money. For example, a marketing study
simply trying to identify the average amow1t
customers spend per transaction at an online
retailer has a straightforward central question
23 Which choice most logically completes
that doesn't require many years of data the text?
collection. But it is much more expensive to A) marketing studies are not likely to
conduct a longitudinal study like the require data m very many individuals.
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in B) data from 25,000 people may not be
Australia Survey (HILDA), which looks at data enough to veal significant trends in
for 25,000 people in Australia to find trends economic well-being.
in economic well-being that can take a long C) long-term trends in economic well-being
time to develop. This requires lots of funding are hard to find without collecting data
because over many years.
D) long-term trends in marketing can be
found without examining many years of
data.

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Writing
Cut, bent, and welded from discarded metal
materials, the sculptures of London-based
Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas Camp are meant 1 Which choice completes the text so that it
to challenge viewers to consider their own conforms to the conventions of Standard
relationships to material her English?
thought-provoking works in the 1993 A) wastes;
exhibition Steel Clothes and Ornamentation at
B) wastes and to
the Redfern Gallery in London were no
C) wastes,
different.
D) wastes

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A recipient of the Othmer Gold Medal and the

Davy Medal from the Royal Society,
known as femtochemistry
when he devised an optical spectroscopy 2 Which choice completes the text so that it
technique that allowed researchers to study conforms to the conventions of Standard
ultrafast chemical reactions occurring within English?
molecules. A) the result of chemist Ahmed Zewail's
expansion of the limits of measurability
was the introduction of a new scientific
discipline
B) the introduction of a new scientific
discipline by chemist Ahmed Zewail
led to the expansion of the limits of
measurability
C) the limits of measurability were
expanded by chemist Ahmed Zewail who
introduced a new scientific discipline
D) chemist Ahmed Zewail expanded the
limits of measurability and introduced a
new scientific discipline

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 • Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American
artist who produced more than two
thousand drawings and paintings. 3 Which choice most effectively uses
• His work Thin in the Old was completed in information from the given sentences to
1986 and sold at auction in 2020. emphasize how the two works are similar?
• Thin in the Old is composed of acrylic, A) Composed by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
oil, and paper collage on wood and in 1986 and 1987, respectively, both Thin
in the Old and Victor use acrylic paint as a
measures 3,028 square inches in area.
medium.
• His work Victor was completed in 1987
B) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat completed
and sold at auction in 2017.
Thin in the Old in 1986, and Victor
• Victor is composed of acrylic, oil stick, and followed in 1987.
crayon on canvas and measures 9,432 C) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's work Thin
square inches in area. in the Old is composed of acrylic, oil, and
paper collage, while Victor is composed
of acrylic, oil stick, and crayon.
D) Between artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's
works Victor and Thin in the Old, the
former is the larger of the n.vo.

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While researching a topic, a student has
taken the following notes:
..
• The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is 4 The student wants to compare the hardness
a ten-point scale that orders minerals of talc and topaz. Which choice most
by hardness based on their ability to effectively uses relevant information from the
scratch other minerals. notes to accomplish this goal?
• Minerals with larger numbers are harder A) Topaz can leave visible scratches on
than minerals with 1 smaller number and fluorite, which is why topaz has a higher
can leave visible scratches on them. number than fluorite on the Mohs scale of
• Minerals with smaller numbers are mineral hardness.
softer than minerals with larger B) The Mohs scale of mineral hardness can
numbers and cannot leave visible be used to order fluorite, talc, and topaz
scratches on them. by their ability to scratch other minerals.
C) A mineral with a Mohs number of 4, like
• The mineral talc has a Mohs scale
fluorite, R.)is harder than one with a
number of 1.
Mohs number of 1, like talc.
• The mineral fluorite has a Mohs D) Topaz can leave visible scratches on
scale number of 4.
talc, which means that topaz is harder
• The mineral topaz has a Mohs than talc.
scale number of 8.

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The Amur River, which is 2,714 miles long,
--------------into the Sea of Okhotsk.
5 Which choice completes the text so that it
conforms to the conventions of Standard
English?
A) flow
B) flows
C) have flowed
D) are flowing

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What is the origin of the word "pessimism"?
Interestingly,............................It first appears in
a letter by English author Samuel Taylor 6 Which choice completes the text so that it
Coleridge.
conforms to the conventions of Standard
English?
A) it was invented by an author.
B) it was invented by an author?
C) wasn't it invented by an author.
D) was it invented by an author.

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decision: the judges for the 1974 Nobel Prize in
Literature would award Eyvind Johnson of
Sweden with that year's prize "for a narrative 7 Which choice completes the text so
art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service that it conforms to the conventions of
of freedom:' Standard English?
A) you
B) it
C) anyone
D) they

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the arbiter of fine dining, with its coveted 3-star
rating being awarded to top restaurants like Xin
Rong Ji in Beijing. However, few know the 8 Which choice completes the text so that it
guide started as a marketing gimmick in 1900, conforms to the conventions of Standard
when brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin English?
sought to increase profits for their tire company
A) drive.
by encouraging their customers to _
B) drive
their cars across France, visiting the guide's
recommended hotels and restaurants along the C) drive:
way. D) drive;

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Pinon Chapter is one of the 110 chapters of the
Navajo Nation (Naabeeho Bincihdsdzo). The
chapter, known as Be'ek'id Bas Ahoodzdni in 9 Which choice completes the text so that it
the Navajo language (Dine Bizaad), was the conforms to the conventions of Standard
subject of a profile in the Navajo Times on English?
December 12, 2013. A) appearing
B) appears
C) has appeared
D) appeared

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Writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia's love of short
fiction began when she read a collection of
Edgar Allan Poe stories as a child, and she later 10 Which choice completes the text so that it
would become a prolific short story writer conforms to the conventions of Standard
herself, publishing pieces like "In the Details"
English?
(2015) and "To See Pedro Infante" (2014). Yet
A) known
she's best especially since her
B) known:
2020 novel Mexican Gothic reached the New
York Times Best Sellers list-as a novelist. C) known-
D) known;

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In 1931, scientists first isolated a sample of the
steroid hormone androsterone, which they
knew existed in animals-and, they answered,
Which choice completes the text with the
only in animals. researchers would
find androsterone in Swiss cheese plants most logical transition?
(Monstera deliciosa), but this discovery A) For example,
wouldn't come until decades later. B) Eventually,
C) In other words,
D) Earlier,

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"muzzle" is attributed to poet Geoffrey
Chaucer's 1385 work "The Knight's Tale:'
However, Chaucer didn't write in Modern Which choice completes the text with the
English; he wrote in what we now most logical transition?
call Middle English, which was commonly used A) as a result,
during the period. B) similarly,
C) rather,
D) finally,

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The moon Leda orbits Jupiter in the same
direction that the planet rotates. ----
13, J

Leda's orbit is described as prograde. Ananke, Which choice completes the text with the
another of Jupiter's moons, orbits in the most logical transition?
opposite direction, so its orbit is described with A) In reality,
the opposite term: retrograde. B) Nevertheless,
C) Hence,
D) Next,

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As part of a study, participants were asked to
list animals they thought of as "charismatic:'
which was defined as "attractive, fascinating, or 14 Which choice completes the text with the
appealing:' Researchers compiled the responses most logical transition?
into a single list and found that the cheetah
A) In other words,
and the blue whale both landed in the top
B) As result,
twenty.
no animal outranked the tiger. C) Still,
D) For example,

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Shonte Tucker has worked at NASA's famed Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world's
leading facilities for robotic space exploration. 15 Which choice completes the text with the
Tucker worked as a systems most logical transition?
engineer on the JPL's Mars 2020 Perseverance A) Conversely,
rover team, which improved upon the 2011 B) Specifically,
Curiosity rover design by adding a coring drill C) Finally,
to the robot that could collect rock samples for D) Nevertheless,
later analysis.

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