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Digital SAT Practice Test 1

Reading and Writing Module 1

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SAT Section 1, Module 1: Reading and Writing

SAT Section 1, Module 1: Reading and Writing

32 MINUTES, 27 QUESTIONS

DIRECTIONS

You will be tested on a variety of important reading and writing skills. Each question has one or more passages, possibly including a graph or table. Carefully read each passage and question and choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).

Every question in this section is multiple-choice, with four possible answers. Each question has only one best answer

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

Flying squirrels are the most numerous squirrels in Ohio, yet they are the least frequently observed.

Flying squirrels are nocturnal.

Flying squirrels do not actually fly; loose skin extends from wrist to ankle and allows them to glide between trees.

Flying squirrels prefer to live in forests and not in suburbs.

Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats facing flying squirrels.

The student wants to correct a likely misconception about flying squirrels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A) Flying squirrels can usually be observed at night as opposed to the day

B) Despite their name, flying squirrels glide rather than fly.

C) While hunting poses a threat to flying squirrels, habitat loss is ultimately the greater danger.

D) Even though flying squirrels are scarce in Ohio, they can still be easily seen.

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

Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in modern day.

His poems centered around philosophical and social issues, questioning common assumptions with ironic writing.

One of his most famous poems is “The Road Not Taken.”

It encourages readers to take the path less traveled by the world or by peers.

Another one of Frost’s poems is “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

This poem reflects on the fleeting nature of beauty and life.

The student wants to introduce Robert Frost to an audience unfamiliar with his work. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A) “The Road Not Taken” considers taking the path less traveled by others.

B) Robert Frost is a famous modern poet whose work encourages critical thinking.

C) Analysis of beauty and life are common themes in many modern- day poems by Robert Frost and others.

D) Irony is a useful poetic device to convey one’s skepticism about worldly assumptions.

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3) In the past few years, more than one horribly botched painting has made the news when it was delivered back to the owner looking nothing like the original. ___________ the art restorer working on the painting is not both topnotch and very well trained in artistic techniques from the time-period of the piece, the results of a restoration attempt can be disastrous.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A) If

B) While

C) Because

D) Since

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4) Specific engineering disciplines focus on particular types of physical problems. ___________ aerospace engineering is mostly concerned with optimizing the performance of airplanes, while civil engineering is mostly concerned with improving physical structures and public works.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A) However

B) In addition,

C) For instance,

D) Surprisingly

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5) Music is a combination of specific sound waves started and stopped at specific times. Some waves align nicely with one another or contrast nicely with one another, ___________ others are neither regularly contrasting nor matching

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A) while

B) because

C) since

D) so

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6) Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg are truly giants of playwriting. The hallmarks of modern theater in their present incarnation—from stark realism to surreal expressionism—___________

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

A) from the two mens’ works directly derive.

B) from the works of these two men directly derive.

C) derive directly from the works of these two men.

D) come directly from this.

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7) Over time, when the town began to adopt more mainstream customs with respect to family dynamics, the rate of cardiovascular disease ___________.

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

A) rise

B) risen

C) rose

D) rised

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8) Two of the primary positions “between” nurse and doctor ___________ those of nurse practitioner and physician assistant. You can think of a nurse practitioner as a more advanced nurse and a physician assistant as a more restricted doctor.

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

A) are

B) is

C) has

D) was

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9) General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry ___________ both American leaders in the late 1940s and early 1950s in the aftermath of the Allied victory during World War II.

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

A) Truman; Great Men, by all accounts—were

B) Truman—Great Men, by all accounts, were

C) Truman: Great Men, by all accounts—were

D) Truman—Great Men, by all accounts—were

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10) Schrödinger, a father of quantum mechanics himself, surely understood the uses of quantum superposition but also sought to bring attention to ___________ shortcomings.

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

A) its

B) it’s

C) their

D) there

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11) It is believed that ___________ on as near the actual date of their arrival as it would ordinarily be possible to obtain them.

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

A) the great majority of species: were recorded

B) the great majority of species were recorded

C) the great majority of species, were recorded

D) the great majority of species; were recorded

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12) We hear about water every day. More than 70% of ___________ surface is covered with water. Water is a requirement for terrestrial life. Water makes up most of our bodies.

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

A) our planets

B) their planets

C) our planet’s

D) their planets’

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13) In considering the following ___________ be well to bear in mind that records of the bird migration in this locality have been made each year for the past thirty-one years.

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

A) remarks: it may

B) remarks; it may

C) remarks, it may

D) remarks it may

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14) Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, and about every about other type of scientist. He lived from 1834–1919. He was a contemporary of Charles Darwin and helped popularize On the Origin of Species in Germany. Contrary to Darwin and what we know now, Haeckel believed humans originated in Asia, not Africa. An accomplished artist, he created illustrations of animals and sea creatures with the same color and detail as the ornithological illustrations of James Audubon. Even though Americans aren’t as familiar with Haeckel as they are with Darwin or Audubon, Haeckel ___________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) is a historical figure who is worth studying.

B) continues to write intriguing articles in the present day.

C) should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

D) was truly a literary pioneer and poetic innovator.

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15)

Through the improvement of technology and microscopy techniques, the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes were discovered. Protists previously fell under the category of prokaryotes, which were originally classified as anucleate organisms and unicellular. Technological advances led to the understanding that protists are eukaryotic organisms even though most protists do remain unicellular. Since 1675, scientists ___________

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

A) have found far more species of protists than other animal species.

B) conducted experiments on over 100,000 species of protists in laboratory environments.

C) have discovered approximately 200,000 new species of protists.

D) analyzed a total of 900,000 plant and protist species in their quest to find new life forms.

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16) The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 literary work by American author W. E. B. Du Bois. One cultural aspect on which Du Bois focuses in this work is the prevalence of “sorrow songs” in African American culture, i.e., musical compositions that evoke the suffering of slaves. In this work, Du Bois strongly suggests that American creativity is focused on energetic inventiveness: __________________

Which quotation from The Souls of Black Folk most effectively illustrates the claim?

A) “Out of [the slave songs] rose for me morning, noon, and night, bursts of wonderful melody, full of the voices of my brothers and sisters, full of the voices of the past.”

B) “Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.”

C) “Some [slave songs], like “Near the lake where drooped the willow,” passed into current airs and their source was forgotten; others were caricatured on the ‘minstrel’ stage and their memory died away.”

D) “[Slave songs] are the music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”

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17) Microplastics are microscopic particles of plastic that tend to accumulate toxins and are in some cases toxic themselves. Unfortunately, microplastics tend to end up being eaten by various organisms. The primary reason for this problem is that in recent years, approximately 380 million tons of plastic are produced annually. Plastic is not biodegradable, which means that once it enters the environment it can take several hundred years to degrade. In fact, if all the plastic that was produced between 1950 and 1960 had been disposed of in the ocean, _________

Which insertion at the end of the text, if true, would best support the author’s claim?

A) nearly all of it would remain.

B) about half of it would remain.

C) about one-third of it would remain.

D) almost none of it would remain.

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18) Text 1

In her essay, “The Realities of Love at First Sight,” Fisher explains how we evaluate an individual within three minutes of meeting them based on their physical attributes, voice, and words. First, we decide if they are attractive, then we evaluate their clothing and stature, before moving on to the sound and tone of their voice. Lastly, we consider what they actually say. She concludes that we choose partners whose biological chemicals complement our own.

Text 2

Psychology Today renders love a three-step scientific process. First, a release of the hormone dopamine causes “feel good” emotions. In this stage, we feel attracted to an individual and associate them with feelings of intense joy. Next, our neurotransmitters—norepinephrine and phenylethylamine—lead to focused attention on the object of our attraction. Lastly, our brain reward system is activated, sending chemical messages that elevate mood and make an addiction-like urge to be with that person.

How does the analysis of the love process in Text 2 differ from the one in Text 1?

A) It cites the role that chemicals might play.

B) It focuses on the actual chemistry of the process.

C) It has just two concrete steps.

D) It emphasizes the essential importance of human decision making.

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19) The following passage is from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, published in 1916. Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s protagonist, yearns to be an artist but was raised and educated to join the clergy. Below he contemplates the diverging paths before him after a priest warns him of the permanence of his intended holy position.

The Reverend Stephen Dedalus, S.J.

His name in that new life leaped into characters before his eyes and to it there followed a mental sensation of an undefined face or colour of a face. The colour faded and became strong like a changing glow of pallid brick red. Was it the raw reddish glow he had so often seen on wintry mornings on the shaven gills of the priests? The face was eyeless and sour-favoured and devout, shot with pink tinges of suffocated anger. Was it not a mental spectre of the face of one of the Jesuits whom some of the boys called Lantern Jaws and others Foxy Campbell?

According to the text, how would the narrator most likely characterize how most priests in this story would handle their emotions?

A) By repressing them

B) By celebrating them

C) By eliminating them

D) By expressing them

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20) The following text is from Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle.

And then there was Marija Berczynskas, who, fired with jealousy by the success of Jurgis, had set out upon her own responsibility to get a place. Marija had nothing to take with her save her two brawny arms and the word “job,” laboriously learned; but with these she had marched about Packingtown all day, entering every door where there were signs of activity. Out of some she had been ordered with curses; but Marija was not afraid of man or devil, and asked everyone she saw—visitors and strangers, or work-people like herself, and once or twice even high and lofty office personages, who stared at her as if they thought she was crazy. In the end, however, she had reaped her reward.

According to the text, Marija most likely has what level of proficiency in the English language?

A) Totally fluent

B) Mostly fluent

C) Somewhat proficient

D) Very limited

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21) The following is a portion of an address given by Senator Herbert H. Lehman at the annual membership meeting of the Urban League of Greater New York in June of 1956, as reported in the Arizona Sun.

The Urban League has furnished a framework within which men of good will of all races could work together to achieve steady advances toward the goal of adjustment, focusing their efforts on the neighborhood and the community. This organization has helped to show how vast are the ramifications of inter-group and inter-racial adjustment, what concrete and specific evils flow from discrimination and segregation, and what must and can be done about it. Some people, including some of the leaders of our government, act as though civil rights were a brand-new problem, which has just arisen and needs nothing so much as to be studied. And they indicate that just as soon as they finish studying it, they will probably do something about it. And, of course, that may take a long time.

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

A) To show how those who oppose the advancement of civil rights will inevitably resort to personal attacks

B) To emphasize the need for increased funding for socially active causes

C) To assert that opponents of civil rights progress will likely use excessive delay to achieve their aims

D) To argue that the goal of public policy is to promote social justice

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22) The following text is from Georgia Douglas Johnson’s 1920 poem “Calling Dreams.”

The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life;
Nor shall fate’s deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around;
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

A) To express the inevitable frustration that comes when you cannot accomplish a goal

B) To show a more contemplative attitude towards acceptance of your fate

C) To present a personal narrative about the importance of travel to a richer life

D) To emphasize the need to not let anything stand in the way of achieving your dreams

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23) One key reason C. lecturlarius (bedbugs) can be so difficult to remove is their physical properties. They are tiny brown bugs that live solely on the blood of other animals, so edible poison traps won’t work the way they do for ants. In addition, they can live months without food, which makes starving them out nearly impossible, and they lay eggs that are _________ to regular pest control methods and stick in unreachable nooks and crannies.

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

A) susceptible

B) prone

C) impervious

D) vulnerable

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24) Making something that is truly delicious for one’s friends and family can be a formative experience that leads one to pursue a career as a chef. While not everybody can be a celebrity chef with millions of television fans, there are many _________ to a fulfilling career in the food services industry.

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

A) boulevards

B) promenades

C) thoroughfares

D) avenues

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25) While there certainly are many potential careers that students may find rewarding, students with a math and science _________ should give engineering serious consideration.

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

A) aptitude

B) warmth

C) hankering

D) frenzy

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26) One of the most common ways that people can amass wealth is through _________ equity in their homes.

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

A) assembling

B) manufacturing

C) building

D) fabricating

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27) Modern day graffiti creates the same questions. Most people would agree that a quickly spray-painted tag is not art, but some graffiti is very elaborate, well planned, and objectively beautiful. Some graffiti _________ the value of an area by making it appear abandoned and unkempt.

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

A) quiets

B) recedes

C) lowers

D) muffles

Your score is

Reading and Writing Module 2

SAT Section 1, Module 2: Reading and Writing

SAT Section 1, Module 2: Reading and Writing

32 MINUTES, 27 QUESTIONS

DIRECTIONS

You will be tested on a variety of important reading and writing skills. Each question has one or more passages, possibly including a graph or table. Carefully read each passage and question and choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).

Every question in this section is multiple-choice, with four possible answers. Each question has only one best answer

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1) The vacation had the opposite effect on Jim. He despised the upcoming days and was depressed at the thought of his recent break-up. Although he marched into work 15 minutes early on Monday morning, he was feeling very ___________.

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

A) energetic

B) dispirited

C) invigorated

D) rejuvenated

Your score is