SAT Practise Test 2

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Practice Test
2
Section 1
20 Questions j Time—25 Minutes
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itself. In some cases, you will be asked to read two related passages and answer questions about
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their relationship to one another. Mark the letter of your choice on your answer sheet.
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A bill is the form used for most legislation in 1. From the passage, it can be inferred that a 7
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1 the United State Congress. Only constitutional bill that is designated as H.R. 1 is the
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House and Senate are adopted by a resolution, 7
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is passed in the House of Representatives Native American views of nature, which 7
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that it might be sent to which of the of the
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following scenarios most accords
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following two places? with a Native American view? 7
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(A) Senate, conference committee (A) Studying a microorganism removed
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(C) Senate, President (B) Studying Earth through satellite
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stances with spiritual symbolism. 7
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Through traditional customs and symbols like (E) Studying a habitat as a whole. 7
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the medicine wheel, a circular arrangement of 7
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stones often interpreted as representing the 7
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relationship between Earth, air, water, and fire, 7
1 Native Americans have long recognized and passage. 7
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This passage is about Aaron Copland, one of the 7
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celebrated the connectedness among all natural 7
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most celebrated American composers. 7
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things. Indeed, the Native American view of the 7
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world has always been consistent with that of Line Copland’s music of the late 1920s 7
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Earth ecology—that Earth is a single system of culminates in two key works, both
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interconnected parts. uncompromising in their modernism: the 7
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3. The symbol of the medicine wheel is given (5) Variations of 1930. The fate of these 7
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as a(n) compositions contrasts sharply. While the
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Piano Variations is not often performed 7
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view the Earth as an interconnected 7
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because, although it does contain 7
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system. 7
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(B) example of the Native American
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understanding of the four elements.
modest ability can “play at” the work in 7
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(C) example of the interrelatedness of the
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century continuation of the great 7
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four basic elements. 7
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tradition of keyboard variations—the 7
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(15) tradition that produced such works as 7
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understandings of the Earth. 7
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the Bach Goldberg Variations, and 7
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(20) intense symphonic movement, it was
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the Ode is seldom played. It is Copland’s Americas as a whole. His own use of 7
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(35) minutes for three movements and the six land’s music? 7
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only nineteen minutes. Yet, in fact, these (A) Strident skepticism 7
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in particular, the wiry, agile rhythms of (C) Respectful description 7
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friendship with Carlos Chávez that drew (D) abstruse.
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him to Mexico. Copland first visited (E) publicized.
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country is related in his letter of January
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in Mexico is also reflected in his music, 7
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American interest. A 1941 trip to
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South America for the State Department.
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acclaim, while the other, a more Sinfónica de México.
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popular in the United States. Copland’s music.
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corpus of beloved works. 7
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of a(n) paragraph], the author suggests that
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Copland’s work, but nonetheless weren’t melodic enough to engage 7
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perform. (B) the Statements were too brief to
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perform his less popular works. (C) even those who admired Copland’s
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(D) musician who appreciated Copland’s determined which performers were
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work but was unable to play it. truly excellent and which were 7
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following must be a true statement?
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of m switch places. If RT 5 18, what is the area of the 7
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Directions: Mark the letter of your choice on the answer sheet that best corresponds to the 7
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1. The following questions test your knowledge of the rules of English grammar, as well as 7
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word usage, word choice, and idioms.
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testimonials about the defendant.
Bautista Rael, an Hispanic-American scholar. It 7
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married Quirina Espinoza of Antonito, in Mexico, and his study, The Sources
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of Dr. Rael. (B) was suffering severe economic
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color of night. Before his premature work clearly rises to the auspicious status
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completed more than seventy paintings in point out that this method of determining
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(10) king Henry I established the length of the
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(15) But not all ancient units of measure have manageable size, it was defined as one 7
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such arbitrary origins. The mile is a good one-forty-millionth of the Earth’s 7
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example of this. Though the mile is today circumference.
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counted as part of the English system of meter to harken back to the ancient 7
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measurement, the unit dates back to (60) Greek word metron, meaning measure.
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(20) ancient Rome. The English word mile The rest of the metric system is even 7
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derives from the Latin term mille, which less arbitrary in origin. The other metric
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means one thousand. For the Romans, units of length were generated by either
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the mille was one thousand paces. A pace multiplying or dividing the meter by a 7
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was two steps, or five feet roughly. This (65) factor of ten. Thus a kilometer is 1000
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(25) meant the mille was 5,000 feet. In meters, and a centimeter is one one- 7
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medieval Europe, however, the 220-yard hundredths of a meter. It is the great asset
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tists, that units for measuring weight and 7
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ment used. To reconcile the two measure-
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ments, the mile was lengthened to be (70) energy are also derived from the basic 7
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(30) eight furlongs. This made the mile 5,280 unit of the meter. For instance, weight is
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1 feet. A sixteenth-century act of Parlia- measured in grams, which are determined 7
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measurement, the system that includes (75)
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is part and parcel of the tradition that (80) with great advances in science. By 1900,
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(45) tions during the French Revolution, the
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scientific system that would replace 7
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date. The distance that light travels in a 7
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traditional ways of ordering society. The 7
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(50) coincidence that length was meted in
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(55) ence of the Earth. For the meter to be a 7
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(C) reveal how far back in time the (C) stretches back further than reliable
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the arbitrariness of the English (E) was adopted wholesale.
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of the French Revolution. is a more manageable length.
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1 The answer is (C).
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connectedness of the four basic elements. So (A) is the best choice.
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Native American view because they recognize the connectedness of an
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that quality in the passage. That eliminates all but (C), which is the
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difficulty of playing the Symphonic Ode. The passage tells you that
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works deal in shorter units of time.” So the author thinks that the pieces 9
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vocabulary question, asking you to define “agile.”
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Americas and music? It says that Copland, “envisioned ‘American 9
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music’ as being music of the Americas.” In other words, he thought
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1 they were related, or should be. (A), (B), and (E) run contrary to this 9
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meaning. (D) is irrelevant. The answer is (C).
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daily activities. (E) is also too specific. (A) is really off in emphasis; the
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trajectory of the Space Station. The answer is (C). It’s also a good 9
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seeing just a limited part of it. But the emphasis is on seeing the whole
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numbers, and throws them around as though they were quite easy. (D)
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4. A The first thing to notice is that this triangle is a 30-60-90 triangle, one
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something most people can do easily, but for a calculator, it’s a cinch.
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y-intercept, b, can be read off.
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you’ve flipped the first and last digits. Flipping 19 makes 91, which is 9
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quite a difference, and it’s highly unlikely that 192
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reversing the digits does not change the value of the number. That is a 9
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good suspicion, and if you see it, you can easily read off that (A) is the
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answer. If you did not have that suspicion, just dive into the problem
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numbers to try to make the smallest difference
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15. C There’s no answer choice that says, “It cannot be determined,” so you 9
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have to realize that there is a way to determine the area of the circle. 9
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a way to find the radius of the circle, which in this case is line 9
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segment RS.
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need. If “line q is tangent to circle R,” then angle RST is a right angle.
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problem gives you the length of RT as 18. For line segment RS, the
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radius will be 6, since 5 6. If you place this value of the radius into 9
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the first step in this problem is to figure out what these values are. In the 9
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table, August has two squares (1,000 each) and three triangles (50 9
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returns each), so total August sales are: 9
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1 2(1,000) 2 3(50)5 2000 2 150 5 1,850
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September total sales were 1950. Therefore,
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monthly sales is 100 (1950 2 1850), so what percent of 1,850 is 100?
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were 5.4 percent greater than August total sales. (E) says the same and
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17. C You cannot solve this problem unless you do some creative line 9
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To find the unknown lengths, you have to subtract known values of 9
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opposites. Take the top and bottom sides, for instance. The larger top 9
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side is 8, and the lower part is 5, so the difference must be 3. A dashed 9
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line shows this value. Subtracting the right side (length 2) from the left 9
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1 side (length 6), you find another dashed line that has a value of 4. 9
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1 and so is equal to 5. This means the perimeter is 26, (C).
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18. A Unpack the tangle of terms, and you’ll find the answer. You are looking 9
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for two prime numbers that:
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1. When you subtract them you get 21. 9
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2. When you multiply them you get one of the answer choices.
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None of the answer choices are very great,
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numbers must be less than ten. If the two primes were greater, their 9
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product would not be as small as the answer choices. The difference 9
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numbers must be small. Good candidates for the lesser prime are 2, 3, 9
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or 5. 9
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Prime numbers starting in the 20s are 23, 29, 31, and 37. Use a little 9
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trial and error, and you’ll realize that the difference between 23 and 2 is 9
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21. Those are the two primes. What is 2 times 23? The answer is 46,
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choice (A). 9
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19. B First, it always helps to draw a quick sketch of the scenario to get a
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hypotenuse from the origin to the midpoint
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latter is an example of the former. The answer is (E).
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without being wordy as in (C) and (D). The answer is (E).
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changes the sense. Which of the answers simplifies and clarifies the
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someone who does not consume alcohol. A gourmand, (C), is someone 9
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who indulges a great deal in fine food. Neither (A) nor (E) have 9
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tic, or unreceptive, certainly not passive or defeatist. The answer is (B).
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pair, so start with it. Which of the second answer choices goes with
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although (A) has more subspecies than (B) . . . ). The although is the key
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the defendant. (A) and (B) fit this (motley doesn’t; even though it has a 9
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that the blank is very positive. Only (B) fits this, and it fits well. If you 9
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response that might fit better. Bane could work in terms of meaning, 9
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leaves (B), (C), and (E). Of the three, (C) is the best since self-centered 9
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both words. You might be tempted to go with (B) because you don’t
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15. B What is a good pre-guess for the blank? Really hectic (that is, opposite
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of alleviating demands upon our time). Only (B) matches this pre-guess, 9
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can engage a person’s work without being positive about that work.
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(A) is the best choice.
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17. C Again this is a global question. To rephrase the question, what is the 9
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passage about? It tells the story of Dr. Rael’s life with specific emphasis
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on his professional career. Choice (C) captures this. You might have 9
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been attracted by (E), but remember the passage only discusses the Rael 9
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foresight to recognize the changes that were coming with the increasing
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of English. . . would be necessary.” Choices (B) and (D) seem to echo 9
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this sentence. But the passage does not
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suggests that Rael was successful in
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overall view of the passage should convey that the folklore was precious
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that Rael was relieved to give up his family duties. Eliminate (D). There is 9
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no mention of sibling rivalry, so you can eliminate (A). The passage doesn’t
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say if the family was wealthy or simply OK, so (B) is out. It certainly 9
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question. The basic gist of the passage is that Rael’s work was 9
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important. He collected Spanish-language folklore and studied the 9
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number of variants of a particular story. That eliminates (C) and (E).
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negative.
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7. A Careful here. The problem asks for the value of the exponent, not the 9
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measures of the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180), but there are 9
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two variables and only one equation: 2x 1 y 1 3x 2 y 5 90 (They
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is to brain freeze students who look at it and say, “There are two
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variables and only one equation. It can’t be solved!” If you just write 9
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out the equation, you can avoid this type of paralysis. Writing down
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(C) is the answer.
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distance from Easton to Bethsaida via
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is x 2 7. Traveling both routes is 31 miles, which translates to: 9
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1 and not the surface street distance. Choice (E) is the answer. 9
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it could be undefined is if the denominator is zero.
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When is the denominator zero? Solve it like a quadratic to see: 9
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11. D The graph is a parabola, so it will have an x term in it. Sometimes that 9
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The parabola is facing downwards, so the x2 term must have a negative 9
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in front of it. If you don’t see why, plug some numbers into 2x . That 2
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eliminates (A) and (B).
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x equals zero on the graph, the value of f(x is 22. So you are looking 9
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the smallest side of the triangle on the left). This means y 5 5 3
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13. A Plug in the answer choices and see which ones make the equation true.
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this doesn’t take as long as you might think. 1 works, but 21 doesn’t. If
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48. 54 is the next item, but it’s too great, so there are eight members of
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S and G, and S is between G and T, then they are 14 away from each
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sculpture.” (lines 5–9) So the passage links Remington’s concentration 9
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upon painting and sculpture as key for his maturation. Eliminate (A).
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(A). The author is also not neutral toward it (he argues that it is part of
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8. E Go back to the phrase in the passage. It talks about one system 9
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system? No. (B) is out. Settling the public’s disagreement? Possibly.
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1500s, you still know it’s before 1840. So the history is factually 9
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shorter. That makes the answer (A). 9
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accomplishment of the French Revolution was the metric system.
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1 metric system wasn’t adopted in France until 1840, but it doesn’t say it
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sounds like a reasonable, noncommittal paraphrase. Eliminate (D).
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(E) overstates how favorable—the words in the passage are warm but
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13. E Refined in the passage is synonymous with recalculated. The passage 9
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calculations of the Earth’s circumference or new ways to calculate 9
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agree with but does not explicitly state? Which is most plausible?
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evidence for it when the author says It is the great asset of the metric
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1 system, at least for scientists, that units for measuring weight and
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adoption of the metric system, also known as the international system,
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