Copy of 12/20 SAT Practice Test

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Question 7

The following text is from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925
novel The Great Gatsby.

[Jay Gatsby] was balancing himself on the dashboard of
his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so
peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the
absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with
the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This
quality was continually breaking through his punctilious
manner in the shape of restlessness.

As used in the text, what does the word “quality” most
nearly mean?

Characteristic

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Standard

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Prestige

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Accomplishment

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Question 8

The work of molecular biophysicist Enrique M. De La
Cruz is known for ______ traditional boundaries
between academic disciplines. The university laboratory
that De La Cruz runs includes engineers, biologists,
chemists, and physicists, and the research the lab
produces makes use of insights and techniques from all
those fields.

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

reinforcing

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anticipating

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epitomizing

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transcending

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Question 9

Some studies have suggested that posture can influence
cognition, but we should not overstate this
phenomenon. A case in point: In a 2014 study, Megan
O’Brien and Alaa Ahmed had subjects stand or sit while
making risky simulated economic decisions. Standing is
more physically unstable and cognitively demanding
than sitting; accordingly, O’Brien and Ahmed
hypothesized that standing subjects would display more
risk aversion during the decision-making tasks than
sitting subjects did, since they would want to avoid
further feelings of discomfort and complicated risk
evaluations. But O’Brien and Ahmed actually found no
difference in the groups’ performance.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

It presents the study by O’Brien and Ahmed to critique the methods and results reported in previous studies of the effects of posture on cognition.

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It argues that research findings about the effects of posture on cognition are often misunderstood, as in the case of O’Brien and Ahmed’s study.

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It explains a significant problem in the emerging understanding of posture’s effects on cognition and how O’Brien and Ahmed tried to solve that problem.

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It discusses the study by O’Brien and Ahmed to illustrate why caution is needed when making claims about the effects of posture on cognition

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Question 10

The following text is from Herman Melville’s 1854 short
story “The Lightning-Rod Man.”
The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the
cottage, where he had first planted himself. His
singularity impelled a closer scrutiny. A lean, gloomy
figure. Hair dark and lank, mattedly streaked over his
brow. His sunken pitfalls of eyes were ringed by indigo
halos, and played with an innocuous sort of lightning:
the gleam without the bolt. The whole man was
dripping. He stood in a puddle on the bare oak floor: his
strange walking-stick vertically resting at his side.

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

It sets up the character description presented in the sentences that follow.

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It establishes a contrast with the description in the previous sentence.

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It elaborates on the previous sentence’s description of the character.

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It introduces the setting that is described in the sentences that follow.

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Question 11

Text 1
What factors influence the abundance of species in a given ecological community? Some theorists have argued that historical diversity is a major driver of how diverse an ecological community eventually becomes: differences in community diversity across otherwise similar habitats, in this view, are strongly affected by the number of species living in those habitats at earlier times.

Text 2
In 2010, a group of researchers including biologist Carla Cáceres created artificial pools in a New York forest.
They stocked some pools with a diverse mix of zooplankton species and others with a single zooplankton species and allowed the pool communities to develop naturally thereafter. Over the course of four years, Cáceres and colleagues periodically measured the species diversity of the pools, finding—contrary to their expectations—that by the end of the study there was little to no difference in the pools’ species diversity.

Based on the texts, how would Cáceres and colleagues
(Text 2) most likely describe the view of the theorists
presented in Text 1?

It is largely correct, but it requires a minor refinement in light of the research team’s results.

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It is not compelling as a theory regardless of any experimental data collected by the research team.

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It may seem plausible, but it is not supported by the research team’s findings.

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It probably holds true only in conditions like those in the research team’s study.

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Question 11

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

• Maika’i Tubbs is a Native Hawaiian sculptor and
installation artist.
• His work has been shown in the United States,
Canada, Japan, and Germany, among other places.
• Many of his sculptures feature discarded objects.
• His work Erasure (2008) includes discarded
audiocassette tapes and magnets.
• His work Home Grown (2009) includes discarded
pushpins, plastic plates and forks, and wood.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the
two works. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Erasure (2008) uses discarded objects such as audiocassette tapes and magnets; Home Grown (2009), however, includes pushpins, plastic plates and forks, and wood.

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Like many of Tubbs’s sculptures, both Erasure and Home Grown include discarded objects: Erasure uses audiocassette tapes, and Home Grown uses plastic forks.

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Tubbs’s work, which often features discarded objects, has been shown both within the United States and abroad.

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Tubbs completed Erasure in 2008 and Home Grown in 2009.

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Question 13

Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first
Arabic poet to write in free verse, didn’t reject traditional
forms entirely; her poem “Elegy for a Woman of No
Importance” consists of two ten-line stanzas and a
standard number of syllables. Even in this superficially
traditional work, ______ Al-Malaika was breaking new
ground by memorializing an anonymous woman rather
than a famous man.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?

in fact,

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though,

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therefore,

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moreover,

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Question 14

According to Naomi Nakayama of the University of
Edinburgh, the reason seeds from a dying dandelion
appear to float in the air while ______ is that their
porous plumes enhance drag, allowing the seeds to stay
airborne long enough for the wind to disperse them
throughout the surrounding area.

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

falling,

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falling:

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falling;

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falling

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Question 15

Rabinal Achí is a precolonial Maya dance drama
performed annually in Rabinal, a town in the
Guatemalan highlands. Based on events that occurred
when Rabinal was a city-state ruled by a king, ______
had once been an ally of the king but was later captured
while leading an invading force against him.

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

Rabinal Achí tells the story of K’iche’ Achí, a military leader who

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K’iche’ Achí, the military leader in the story of Rabinal Achí,

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there was a military leader, K’iche’ Achí, who in Rabinal Achí

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the military leader whose story is told in Rabinal Achí, K’iche’ Achí

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