23 - ] Model SAT Tests - Test Twenty Three

23 - ] Model SAT Tests

Test Twenty Three

Some or all the parts of the following sentences are underlined . The first answer choice , (A) , simply repeats the underlined part of the sentence . The other four choices present four alternative ways to phrase the underlined part . Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence , one that is clear and exact , and blacken the appropriate space on your answer sheet . In selecting your choice , be sure that it is standard written English , and that it expresses the meaning of the original sentence .

Example

The first biography of author Eudora Welty came out in 1998 and she was 89 years old at the time .

 (A) and she was 89 years old at the time

(B) at the time when she was 89

(C) upon becoming an 89 year old

(D) when she was 89

(E) at the age of 89 years old

(A)  (B) (C) (D) (E)

1 . By the time we arrive in Italy , we have traveled through four countries .

(A) we have traveled through four countries

(B) we had traveled through four countries

(C) we will have traveled through four countries

(D) four countries will have been  traveled through

(E) we through four countries shall have traveled

2 . To say “My lunch was satisfactory” is complimentary , to say “My lunch was adequate” is not .  

(A) complimentary , to say

(B) complementary , to say

(C) complementary , however , to say

(D) complimentary , but to say

(E) complementary to saying

3.When one debates the merits of the proposed reduction in our tax base , you should take into consideration the effect  it will have on the schools and the other public services.

(A) you should consideration the effect

(B) you should consider the effect

(C) one should take the affect

(D) one takes into consideration the affect

(E) one should take into consideration the effect

4 . We were afraid of the teacher’s wrath , due to his statement that he would penalize anyone who failed to hand in his term paper on time .

(A) wrath , due to his statement that

(B) wrath  due to his statement that

(C) wrath inasmuch as his statement that

(D) wrath because of  his statement that

(E) wrath and his statement that

5 . Although the doctors had put the patient through a series of tests , including X-rays and cytoscopy , they have found no explanation of her mysterious ailment .

(A) they have found no explanation of her mysterious ailment

(B) no explanation of her mysterious ailment has been found

(C) no explanation was found of her mysterious ailment

(D) they did not explain her mysterious ailment

(E) they found no explanation of her mysterious ailment

6.  Originally referring to an excess of patriotic fervor , the term “chauvinism” has come to signify devotion to the theory of masculine superiority .

(A) Originally referring to an excess of patriotic fervor .

(B) In its original reference  to an excess of patriotic fervor .

(C) Originally it referred to an excess of patriotic fervor .

(D) Originally it was referring to an excessive patriotic fervor.

(E) An excess of patriotic fervor being originally referred to .

7 . Exercise offers both physical and emotional benefits : a sense of control over one’s body , a feeling of accomplishment and it is a release of pent-up frustrations .

(A) and it is a release of pent-up frustrations

(B) and it releases pent-up frustrations

(C) by releasing pent-up frustrations

(D) and a release of pent-up frustrations

(E) and a release from pent-up frustrations

8. Because the sports industry has become so popular is the reason that some universities have created new courses in sports marketing and event planning .

(A) popular is the reason that some universities have created new courses in sports marketing and event planning .

(B) popular , some universities have created new courses in sports marketing and event planning .

(C) popular , there have been new courses in sports marketing and event planning created by some universities.

(D) popular is the reason that new courses in sports marketing and event planning have been created by some universities

(E) popular they have created new courses in sports marketing and event planning at some universities

9 . I have discovered that the subways in New York are as clean as any other city I have visited .

(A) as clean as any other city I have visited

(B) as clean as those in any other city I have visited

(C) as clean as those in any other city I visited

(D) cleaner than any city I visited

(E) cleaner than any other city I have visited

10 . Inflation in the United States has not and , we hope , never will reach a rate of 20 percent a year .

(A) has not and , we hope , never will reach

(B) has not reached and , we hope , never will

(C) has not and hopefully never will reach

(D) has not reached and , we hope , never will

(E) has not reached  and hopefully never will

11 . Godard is part biography , part cultural analysis , and it partly pays tribute to an artist who , the author believes , is one of the most influential of his time .

(A) analysis , and it partly pays tribute to an artist

(B) analysis , and part tribute to an artist

(C) analysis , and partly a payment of tribute to an artist

(D) analysis , also it partly pays tribute to an artist

(E) analysis , but there is a part that is a tribute to an artist

12 . Embarrassment over the discovery of element 118 . announced with great fanfare and then retracted amid accusations of scientific fraud , has left the nuclear physics community feeling bruised .

(A) element 118 , announced with great fanfare and then retracted amid accusations of scientific fraud , has left

(B) element 118 , which was announced with great fanfare and afterwards which was retracted amid accusations of scientific fraud , has left

(C) element 118 . announced with great fanfare and then retracted amid accusations of scientific fraud, have left

(D) element 118 was announced with great fanfare and then was retracted amid accusations of scientific fraud , it has left

(E) element 118 . it having been announced with great fanfare and then retracted amidst accusations of scientific fraud , has left

13 . Life on Earth has taken a tremendous range of forms , but all species arise from the same molecular ingredients , these ingredients limit the chemical reactions that can occur within cells and so constrain what life can do . 

(A) ingredients , these ingredients limit the chemical reactions that can occur within cells (B) ingredients , these are ingredients that limit the chemical reactions that can occur within cells

(C) ingredients , these ingredients limit the chemical reactions that  could occur within cells

 (D) ingredients which limit the chemical reactions that can occur within cells

E) ingredients ; but these ingredients limit the chemical reactions that can occur within cells 

22 - ] Model SAT Tests - Test Twenty Two

22 - ] Model SAT Tests

Test Twenty Two

Select the best answer to each of the following questions ; then blacken the appropriate space on your answer sheet . 

The sentences in this section may contain errors in grammar , usage , choice of words , or idioms . Either there is just one error in a sentence or the sentence is correct . Some words or phrases are underlined and lettered ; if the sentence is correct , select No error . Then blacken the appropriate space on your answer sheet .

Example

The region has a climate so severe that plants growing there rarely had been more

                                                 A                                 B                               C

than twelve inches high . No error

                                  D         E   

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

1 .
The lieutenant reminded his men that the only information to be given to the captors

                                      A                                                                          B

was each individual’s name , rank , and what his serial number  was  . No error

           C                                                                          D                                   E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

2 . When the teacher ordered the student to go to the dean’s office as a result of the class

          A                                                               B                                           C      

disruption , she surprised us because she usually will handle her own discipline problems .

                                                                                             D

No error

      E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

3 . He was the author whom I believed was most likely to receive the coveted award .

                                         A           B                       C                                     D

No error

      E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

4 . Please give this scholarship to whoever in the graduating class has done the most to

                                                              A                                                 B

promote  goodwill in the community . No error

     C             D                                               E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

5 . The two lawyers interpreted the statute differently , and they needed a judge to settle its

                                          A                                     B           C                                                     D

 dispute . No error 

                      E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

6 . All of the team members , except him , has anticipated interest from the national leagues

                                                                A      B                                C    

 , and now practice twice as long . No error

                                                D            E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

7 . Everybody but him has paid their dues ; we must seek ways to make him understand the

                           A                           B                            C

 need for prompt payment . No error

      D                                             E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

8 . In order to be sure that the mattress was firm before placing an order , the man gingerly

             A                         B

sat down and laid back . No error

       C                     D               E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

9. Since she found the climate of Arizona very healthy , she decided to move to Phoenix as

       A                                                                       B                                       C

soon as  possible . No error

      D                           E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

10 . The data that  he presented was not pertinent to the matter under discussion . No error

                           A                            B               C                                          D                        E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

11 . In order for she and I to be able to attend , we will need to receive tickets within the

               A              B                                   C                      D

week . No error

              E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12 . I feel badly  about the present conflict because I do not know how to resolve it without

                A                                                          B

hurting  either you or him . No error

      C                                D          E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

13 . A new production of the opera Aida has just been announced ; it will be sung on an

                                                                              A                                 B           C

outdoor stage with live animals . No error

                           D                                 E

 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

14 . Unless two or more members object to him joining the club , we shall have to accept his

            A                                                                    B                                                        C

 application for membership . No error

                       D                               E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

15 . Thurgood Marshall made history by becoming the first black Supreme Court Justice

                                                      A                    B

when he was appointed of this position by President Lyndon Johnson . No error

    C                           D                                                                                          E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

16 . When she spoke with the police , she reported her loss , stating that a large quantity of

          A                                                                                                                                B

 clothing and of valuable jewelry were missing . No error

                                C                             D                 E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

17 . When Freud introduced the notion that most mental possesses that  determine our

                                                                                                                     A 

everyday thoughts , feelings , and what we wish  occur unconsciously , his contemporaries

                                                                    B                                 C

rejected it as impossible . No error 

                D                                E            

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

18 . Artesian water comes from an artesian well , a well that taps  a water-bearing layer of

                                           A                                                        B

rock or sand , in which the water level stands above  the top of the aquifer . No error

                                 C                                        D                                                          E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

19 During the Cultural Revolution in China , Li Huayi has labored as a “worker-artist” .

           A                                                                                         B

painting government propaganda posters , while in private he developed his own  artistic

                                                                              C                                                 D            

style . No error

                 E

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

21 - ] Model SAT Tests - Test Twenty One

21 - ] Model SAT Tests

Test Twenty One

The questions that follow the two passages relate to the content of both , and to their relationship . The correct response may be stated outright in the passage or merely suggested .

Questions 1 - 13are based on the following passages .

The following passages are taken from memoirs by two young American writers , each of whom records his reaction to the prospect of visiting his ancestral homeland .

Passage 1

            Thomas Wolfe said that going home again is like stepping into a river . You cannot step into the same river twice ; you cannot go home again . After a very long time away , you will not find the same home you left behind . It will be different , and so will you . It is quite possible that home will not be home at all , meaningless except for its sentimental place in your heart . At best it will point the long way back to where you started , its value lying in how it helped to shape you and in the part of home you have carried away .

         Alex Haley went to Africa in the mid-sixties . Somehow he had managed to trace his roots back to a little village called Juffure , upriver from Banjul in the forests of The Gambia . It was the same village from which his ancestors had been stolen and forced into slavery . In some way Haley must have felt he was returning home : a flood of emotions , an awakening of the memoirs hidden in his genes .

            Those were the two extremes between which I was trapped . I could not go home again , yet here I was . Africa was so long ago the land of my ancestors that it held for me only a symbolic significance . Yet there was enough to remind me that what I carry as a human being has come in part from Africa . I did not feel Africa , but was beginning to feel not wholly American anymore either . I felt like an orphan , a waif without a home .

            I was not trying to find the village that had once been home to my people , not would I stand and talk to people who could claim to be my relatives , as Haley had done . The thought of running into someone who looked like a relative terrified me , for that would have been too concrete , too much proof . My Africanism was abstract and I wanted it to remain so . I did not need to hear the names of my ancient ancestors or know what they looked like . I had seen the ways they loved their children in the love of my father . I would see their faces and their smiles one day in the eyes of my children .

            Haley found what he was seeking . I hardly knew what I was looking for , except perhaps to know where home once was , to know how much of me is really me ,how much of being black has been carried out of Africa .

Passage 2

            I am a Sansei , a third-generation Japanese-American . In 1984 , through luck and through some skills as a poet . I traveled to Japan . My reasons for going were not very clear .

            At the time , I’d been working as an arts administrator in the Writers-in-the-Schools program , sending other writers to grade schools and high schools throughout Minnesota .It wasn’t taxing , but it didn’t provide the long stretches needed to plunge into my own work . I had applied for a U.S. / Japan Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship mainly because I wanted time to write .

            Japan ? That was where my grandparents came from ; it didn’t have much to do with my present life .

            For me Japan was cheap baseballs , Godzilla , weird sci-fi movies like Star Man , where you could see the string that pulled him above his enemies , flying in front of a backdrop so poorly made even I , at eight , was conscious of the fakery . Then there were the endless hordes storming GI’s in war movies . Before the television set , wearing my ever-present Cubs cap . I crouched near the sofa , saw the enemy surrounding me . I shouted to my men , hurled a grenade . I fired my gun . And the Japanese soldiers fell before me , one by one .

            So , when I did win the fellowship , I felt I was going not as an ardent pilgrim , longing to return to the land of his grandparents , but more like a contestant on a quiz show who finds himself winning a trip to Bali or the Bahamas . Of course , I was pleased about the stipend , the plane fare for me and my wife , and the payments for Japanese lessons , both before the trip and during my stay . I was also excited that I had beat out several hundred candidates in literature and other fields for one of the six spots . But part of me wished the prize was Paris , not Tokyo . I would have preferred French bread and Brie over sashimi and rice , Baudelaire and Proust over Basho and Kawabata and Barthes over Zen and D.T. Suzuki .

            This contradiction remained . Much of my life I had insisted on my Americanness , had shunned most connections with Japan and felt proud I knew no Japanese ; yet I was going to Japan as a poet , and my Japanese ancestry was there in my poems - my grandfather, the relocation camps , the hibakusha ( victims of the atomic bomb ) , a picnic of Nisei ( second-generation Japanese-Americans ) , my uncle who fought in the 442^nd . True , the poems were written in blank verse , rather than haika , tanka . or haibun  . But perhaps it’s a bit disingenuous to say that I had no longing to go to Japan ; it was obvious my imagination had been traveling there for years , unconsciously swimming the Pacific , against the tide of my Tamily’s emigration , my parents’ desire , after the internment camps , to forget the past .

1 . Wolfe’s comment referred to 1 - 4 represents

(A) a digression from the author’s thesis

(B) an understatement of the situation

(C) a refutation of the author’s central argument

(D) a figurative expression of the author’s point

(E) an example of the scientific method

2. according to the lines at the end of the first paragraph , the most positive outcome of attempting to go home again would be for you to           

(A) find the one place you genuinely belong

(B) recognize the impossibility of the task

(C) grasp how your origins have formed you

(D) reenter the world of your ancestors

(E) decide to stay away for shorte5r periods of time

3 . Throughout Passage 1 , the author seeks primarily to convey           

(A) his resemblance to his ancestors

(B) his ambivalence about his journey

(C) the difficulties of traveling in a foreign country

(D) his need to deny his American origins

(E) the depth of his desire to track down his roots

4 . The underlined statement “I could not go home again , yet here I was represents           

(A) a paradox (B) a prevarication (C) an interruption (D) an analogy (E) a fallacy

5 . The underlined word “held” in paragraph 3 Passage 1 means            

(A) grasped (B) believed (C) absorbed (D) accommodated (E) possessed

6 . By “my own work” Passage 2 paragraph 2 , the author refers to            

(A) seeking his ancestral roots

(B) teaching in high school

(C) writing a travel narrative

(D) creating poetry

(E) directing art programs

7 . The underlined word “taxing” Passage 2 , paragraph 2 means         

(A) imposing (B) obliging (C) demanding (D) accusatory (E) costly

8 . The author’s purpose in describing the war movie incident Passage 2 , at the end of paragraph 3 most likely is to            

(A) indicate the depth of his hatred for the Japanese

(B) show the extent of his self-identification as an American

(C) demonstrate the superiority of American films to their Japanese counterparts

(D) explore the range of his interest in contemporary art forms

(E) explain why he had a particular urge to travel to Japan

9 . By “a trip to Bali or the Bahamas” paragraph 5 Passage 2 the author wishes to convey           

(A) his love for these particular vacation sites

(B) the impression that he has traveled to these places before

(C) his preference for any destination other than Japan

(D) his sense of Japan as just another exotic destination

(E) the unlikelihood of his ever winning a second trip

10 . The author’s attitude toward winning the fellowship can best be described as one of           

(A) graceful acquiescence

(B) wholehearted enthusiasm

(C) unfeigned gratitude

(D) frank dismay

(E) marked ambivalence

11 . The author concludes Passage 2 with          

(A) a rhetorical question

(B) a eulogy

(C) an epitaph

(D) an extended metaphor

(E) a literary allusion

12 . Both passages are concerned primarily with the subject of            

(A) ethnic identity

(B) individual autonomy

(C) ancestor worship

(D) racial purity

(E) genealogical research

13 . For which of the following statements or phrases from Passage 1 is a parallel idea not conveyed in Passage 2 ?          

(A) Africa “held for me only a symbolic significance”

(B) “I did not feel African”

(C) “I felt like an orphan , a waif without a home”

(D) “I hardly knew what I was looking for”

(E) “An awakening of the memories hidden in his genes”