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SAT Practice Test #1
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Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section
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After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph)
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©1999 by Lydia Minatoya
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Chie and her daughter Naomi are members of the
House of Fuji, a noble family
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Was
that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his
mother to speak to his father to approach a
go-between—would Chie have been more receptive?
He came on a winter’s eve
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The maid
knew better
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Then the maid brought a
calling card to the drawing room, for Chie
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She and Naomi were reading at
a low table set atop a charcoal brazier
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“Who is it at this hour, in this weather?” Chie
questioned as she picked the name card off the
maid’s lacquer tray
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Kobe Dental College,” she read
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Chie heard a soft
intake of air
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Questions 1-10 are based on the following
passage
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He was in his early
twenties, slim and serious, wearing the black
military-style uniform of a student
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In the glistening
surface of the courtyard’s rain-drenched paving
stones, she saw his reflection like a dark double
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”
His voice was soft, refined
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In the dim light his eyes shone with sincerity
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“Come inside, get out of this nasty night
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”
“I don’t want to trouble you
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I’ve an opportunity to go to America, as
dentist for Seattle’s Japanese community
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“That is an opportunity, I’m sure
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Akira’s message,
delivered like a formal speech, filled her with
maternal amusement
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65
70
75
80
85
90
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It was how she viewed Naomi
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Akira blushed
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I’ve come to ask for Naomi’s hand
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“Does Naomi know anything of your
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Please don’t judge
my candidacy by the unseemliness of this proposal
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Either method comes down to the same
thing: a matter of parental approval
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* We’ll live in the
House of Fuji
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”
Eager to make his point, he’d been looking her full
in the face
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“I see
I’ve startled you
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I’ll take no
more of your evening
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If
you don’t wish to contact me, I’ll reapproach you in
two weeks’ time
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”
He bowed and left
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“Mother?” Chie heard Naomi’s low voice and
turned from the door
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Maybe his hopes were
preposterous
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Naomi was silent
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Finally, she spoke
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”
Naomi turned to go back into the house, then
stopped
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”
“Yes?”
“I mean to have him
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1
* a man who marries a woman of higher status and takes her
family’s name
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B) One character receives a surprising request from
another character
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D) One character criticizes another character for
pursuing an unexpected course of action
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B) confidently
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D) with precision
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B) She will mistake his earnestness for immaturity
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D) She will underestimate the sincerity of his
emotions
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refined”)
B) Lines 49-51 (“You
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proposal”)
D) Lines 71-72 (“Eager
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B) objectivity but not complete impartiality
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D) respect but not utter deference
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B) criticize a tradition
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D) analyze a reaction
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B) custom
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D) nature
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B) He worries that Naomi will reject him and marry
someone else
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D) He knows that Chie is unaware of his feelings for
Naomi
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you”)
B) Lines 39-42 (“Normally
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Japan”)
D) Lines 72-73 (“I see
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Questions 11-21 are based on the following
passage and supplementary material
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Flynn and Gabrielle
S
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" ©2008 by Elsevier
Inc
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Last year, Americans
spent over $30 billion at retail stores in the month of
December alone
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This frequent experience of gift-giving can
engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers
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At the same time,
many dread the thought of buying gifts; they worry
that their purchases will disappoint rather than
delight the intended recipients
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Economists, however, offer
a less favorable view
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People buy gifts that recipients would not choose to
buy on their own, or at least not spend as much
money to purchase (a phenomenon referred to as
‘‘the deadweight loss of Christmas”)
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This ‘‘deadweight loss” suggests that gift-givers are
not very good at predicting what gifts others will
appreciate
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Research has found that people often
struggle to take account of others’ perspectives—
their insights are subject to egocentrism, social
projection, and multiple attribution errors
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In the present research, we propose a unique
psychological explanation for this overspending
problem—i
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, that gift-givers equate how much they
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Although a
link between gift price and feelings of appreciation
might seem intuitive to gift-givers, such an
assumption may be unfounded
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Why do gift-givers assume that gift price is closely
linked to gift-recipients’ feelings of appreciation?
Perhaps givers believe that bigger (i
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, more
expensive) gifts convey stronger signals of
thoughtfulness and consideration
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In this sense, gift-givers may be
motivated to spend more money on a gift in order to
send a “stronger signal” to their intended recipient
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The notion of gift-givers and gift-recipients being
unable to account for the other party’s perspective
seems puzzling because people slip in and out of
these roles every day, and, in some cases, multiple
times in the course of the same day
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g
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g
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In theoretical terms, people fail to utilize
information about their own preferences and
experiences in order to produce more efficient
outcomes in their exchange relations
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Mean appreciation
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showers”) to highlight the
A) regularity with which people shop for gifts
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C) anxiety gift shopping causes for consumers
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12
In line 10, the word “ambivalent” most nearly means
A) unrealistic
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C) apprehensive
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Givers’ Perceived and Recipients’
Actual Gift Appreciations
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B) is an inexpensive way to show appreciation
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D) can serve to strengthen a relationship
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peers”)
B) Lines 22-23 (“People
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perspectives”)
D) Lines 44-47 (“Although
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B) questionable
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D) unprecedented
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B) unreasonable
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D) substantiated
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17
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
answer to the previous question?
A) Lines 53-55 (“Perhaps
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relationship”)
C) Lines 63-65 (“As
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relations”)
18
As it is used in line 54, “convey” most nearly means
A) transport
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C) exchange
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19
The authors refer to work by Camerer and others
(line 56) in order to
A) offer an explanation
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C) question a motive
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B) the monetary value of the gift
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D) their relationship with the gift-recipients
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B) an increasingly materialistic culture
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D) a misunderstanding of intentions
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D
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H
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Crick,
“Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic
Acid
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Watson and Crick
deduced the structure of DNA using evidence from Rosalind
Franklin and R
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Gosling’s X-ray crystallography diagrams
of DNA and from Erwin Chargaff’s data on the base
composition of DNA
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The molecule is a
very long chain, the backbone of which consists of a
regular alternation of sugar and phosphate groups
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Two of the possible
bases—adenine and guanine—are purines, and the
other two—thymine and cytosine—are pyrimidines
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The monomer unit, consisting of
phosphate, sugar and base, is known as a nucleotide
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These two chains are both coiled around
a common fiber axis
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However, the density, taken with the X-ray
evidence, suggests very strongly that there are two
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This is done by hydrogen bonds between the bases
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The important point is that only
certain pairs of bases will fit into the structure
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If a pair consisted of two purines, for
example, there would not be room for it
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If this is true,
the conditions for forming hydrogen bonds are more
restrictive, and the only pairs of bases possible are:
adenine with thymine, and guanine with cytosine
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The phosphate-sugar backbone of our model is
completely regular, but any sequence of the pairs of
bases can fit into the structure
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45
50
long molecule many different permutations are
possible, and it therefore seems likely that the precise
sequence of bases is the code which carries the
genetical information
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Thus one chain
is, as it were, the complement of the other, and it is
this feature which suggests how the deoxyribonucleic
acid molecule might duplicate itself
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Base Composition of DNA
Percentage of base
in organism’s DNA
Organism
adenine guanine cytosine thymine
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
Maize
26
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8
23
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2
Octopus
33
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6
17
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6
Chicken
28
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0
21
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4
Rat
28
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4
20
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4
Human
29
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7
20
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0
Grasshopper
29
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5
20
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3
Sea urchin
32
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7
17
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1
Wheat
27
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7
22
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1
Yeast
31
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7
17
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9
E
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7
26
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7
23
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” ©2003 by Current Science Association,
Bangalore
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The authors use the word “backbone” in lines 3
and 39 to indicate that
A) only very long chains of DNA can be taken from
an organism with a spinal column
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C) a chain in a DNA molecule consists entirely of
phosphate groups or of sugars
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23
A student claims that nitrogenous bases pair
randomly with one another
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types”)
B) Lines 9-10 (“So far
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other”)
D) Lines 27-29 (“One member
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9
25
The authors’ main purpose of including the
information about X-ray evidence and density is to
A) establish that DNA is the molecule that carries
the genetic information
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C) provide support for the authors’ claim about the
number of chains in a molecule of DNA
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26
Based on the passage, the authors’ statement “If a
pair consisted of two purines, for example, there
would not be room for it” (lines 29-30) implies that a
pair
A) of purines would be larger than the space
between a sugar and a phosphate group
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C) of pyrimidines would be larger than a pair of
purines
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27
The authors’ use of the words “exact,” “specific,” and
“complement” in lines 47-49 in the final paragraph
functions mainly to
A) confirm that the nucleotide sequences are known
for most molecules of DNA
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C) support the claim that the phosphate-sugar
backbone of the authors’ model is completely
regular
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Based on the table and passage, which choice gives
the correct percentages of the purines in yeast DNA?
A) 17
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7%
B) 17
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9%
C) 18
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3%
D) 31
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9%
29
Do the data in the table support the authors’
proposed pairing of bases in DNA?
A) Yes, because for each given organism, the
percentage of adenine is closest to the percentage
of thymine, and the percentage of guanine is
closest to the percentage of cytosine
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C) No, because for each given organism, the
percentage of adenine is closest to the percentage
of thymine, and the percentage of guanine is
closest to the percentage of cytosine
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1
10
30
According to the table, which of the following pairs
of base percentages in sea urchin DNA provides
evidence in support of the answer to the previous
question?
A) 17
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7%
B) 17
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1%
C) 17
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8%
D) 17
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8%
31
Based on the table, is the percentage of adenine in
each organism’s DNA the same or does it vary, and
which statement made by the authors is most
consistent with that data?
A) The same; “Two of
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structure”
(lines 25-26)
C) It varies; “Adenine
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information”
(lines 41-45)
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This passage is adapted from Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
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Here, Woolf considers the situation
of women in English society
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The river flows beneath; barges pass, laden
with timber, bursting with corn; there on one side are
the domes and spires of the city; on the other,
Westminster and the Houses of Parliament
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But not
now
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Now we are here
to consider facts; now we must fix our eyes upon the
procession—the procession of the sons of educated
men
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It is a solemn
sight always—a procession, like a caravanserai
crossing a desert
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For there, trapesing along at the tail
end of the procession, we go ourselves
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We who have looked so long at
the pageant in books, or from a curtained window
watched educated men leaving the house at about
nine-thirty to go to an office, returning to the house
at about six-thirty from an office, need look passively
no longer
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make
money, administer justice
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Nobody will dare contradict us
then; we shall be the mouthpieces of the divine
spirit—a solemn thought, is it not? Who can say
whether, as time goes on, we may not dress in
military uniform, with gold lace on our breasts,
swords at our sides, and something like the old
family coal-scuttle on our heads, save that that
venerable object was never decorated with plumes of
white horsehair
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We have worn private clothes so
long
...
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1
11
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
talk of fashions—men’s and women’s
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And they are very important questions; and we have
very little time in which to answer them
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For we have to ask
ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that
procession, or don’t we? On what terms shall we join
that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the
procession of educated men? The moment is short; it
may last five years; ten years, or perhaps only a
matter of a few months longer
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That excuse shall not serve you, Madam
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They have thought
while they stirred the pot, while they rocked the
cradle
...
It falls to us now to go on
thinking; how are we to spend that sixpence? Think
we must
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in the
gallery of the House of Commons; in the Law Courts;
let us think at baptisms and marriages and funerals
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B) stress the urgency of an issue
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D) question the feasibility of an undertaking
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B) women can have positions of influence in
English society only if they give up some of their
traditional roles
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D) the entry of educated women into positions of
power traditionally held by men will transform
those positions
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B) advance the need for candor among a group of
people
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D) reinforce the need for respect among a group of
people
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B) provides a good view of the procession of the
sons of educated men
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D) is symbolic of the legacy of past and present sons
of educated men
...
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B) has become a celebrated feature of English public
life
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D) has become less exclusionary in its membership
in recent years
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money”)
B) Lines 17-19 (“It
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ourselves”)
D) Lines 30-34 (“We
...
men”) as both
A) controversial and threatening
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C) momentous and pressing
...
39
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
answer to the previous question?
A) Lines 46-47 (“We
...
them”)
C) Line 57 (“The moment
...
Madam”)
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1
13
40
Which choice most closely captures the
meaning of the figurative “sixpence” referred
to in lines 70 and 71?
A) Tolerance
B) Knowledge
C) Opportunity
D) Perspective
41
The range of places and occasions listed in
lines 72-76 (“Let us
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B) pervasive the need for critical reflection is
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D) enjoyable the career possibilities for women are
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Passage 2 is
from the editors of New Scientist, “Taming the Final
Frontier
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Passage 1
Line
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Follow the money and you will end up in space
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Convened in Sydney by the Australian Centre for
Space Engineering Research, the event brought
together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar
scientists, and government agencies that are all
working to make space mining a reality
...
Planetary Resources of Washington says it will
launch its first prospecting telescopes in two years,
while Deep Space Industries of Virginia hopes to be
harvesting metals from asteroids by 2020
...
Within a few decades, these firms may be
meeting earthly demands for precious metals, such as
platinum and gold, and the rare earth elements vital
for personal electronics, such as yttrium and
lanthanum
...
They also hope
to build an off-planet economy free of any bonds
with Earth, in which the materials extracted and
processed from the moon and asteroids are delivered
for space-based projects
...
“In the desert, what’s worth more: a kilogram of gold
or a kilogram of water?” asks Kris Zacny of
HoneyBee Robotics in New York
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Water will let you live
...
Splitting water into
oxygen and hydrogen makes spacecraft fuel, so
ice-rich asteroids could become interplanetary
refuelling stations
...
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1
14
45
Companies are eyeing the iron, silicon, and
aluminium in lunar soil and asteroids, which could
be used in 3D printers to make spare parts or
machinery
...
Passage 2
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
The motivation for deep-space travel is shifting
from discovery to economics
...
No doubt this will make a few
billionaires even wealthier, but we all stand to gain:
the mineral bounty and spin-off technologies could
enrich us all
...
At first glance, space
mining seems to sidestep most environmental
concerns: there is (probably!) no life on asteroids,
and thus no habitats to trash
...
Part of this is about principles
...
Others will suggest that
glutting ourselves on space’s riches is not an
acceptable alternative to developing more sustainable
ways of earthly life
...
After all, they exist in vast abundance, and even
fewer people will experience them than have walked
through Antarctica’s icy landscapes
...
The resources that are valuable in orbit and
beyond may be very different to those we prize on
Earth
...
Space miners, like their earthly counterparts, are
often reluctant to engage with such questions
...
But miners have much
to gain from a broad agreement on the for-profit
exploitation of space
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It is in all of our long-term interests to seek
one out
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B) provide evidence of the growing interest in space
mining
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D) highlight the diverse ways to carry out space
mining operations
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B) It could raise the value of some precious metals
on Earth
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D) It could change scientists’ understanding of
space resources
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lanthanum”)
B) Lines 24-28 (“They
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commodity”)
D) Lines 41-44 (“Companies
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B) claims
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D) desires
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B) It provides an unexpected answer to a question
raised in the previous paragraph
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D) It examines possible outcomes of a proposal put
forth in the previous paragraph
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B) its effects should be thoughtfully considered
before it becomes a reality
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D) experts disagree about the commercial viability
of the discoveries it could yield
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B) grip
...
D) withstand
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B) Passage 2 illustrates the phenomenon described
in more general terms in Passage 1
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D) Passage 2 expresses reservations about
developments discussed in Passage 1
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B) will be difficult to bring about in the absence of
regulations
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D) seems certain to affect Earth’s economy in a
negative way
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51
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
answer to the previous question?
A) Lines 60-63 (“Some
...
Earth”)
C) Lines 81-83 (“One
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insecure”)
52
Which point about the resources that will be highly
valued in space is implicit in Passage 1 and explicit in
Passage 2?
A) They may be different resources from those that
are valuable on Earth
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C) They are likely to be primarily precious metals
and rare earth elements
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Each passage below is accompanied by a number of questions
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For
other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in
sentence structure, usage, or punctuation
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Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage
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After reading each passage, choose the answer to each question that most effectively
improves the quality of writing in the passage or that makes the passage conform to the
conventions of standard written English
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Choose that option if you think the best choice is to leave the relevant portion of the
passage as it is
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From 2011 to 2012 alone, sales of Greek yogurt in the
US increased by 50 percent
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Fortunately, farmers and others in the
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Questions 1-11 are based on the following passage
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Given these solutions as well as the many health benefits
of the food, the advantages of Greek yogurt 1 outdo the
potential drawbacks of its production
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[2] Because it requires up to four times
more milk to make than conventional yogurt does, Greek
yogurt produces larger amounts of acid whey, which is
difficult to dispose of
...
[4] They can add it to livestock feed as a protein
2 supplement, and people can make their own
Greek-style yogurt at home by straining regular yogurt
...
[6] Yogurt manufacturers, food
4 scientists; and government officials are also
working together to develop additional solutions for
reusing whey
...
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C) supplement, while sweet whey is more desirable
as a food additive for humans
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3
A) NO CHANGE
B) can pollute waterway’s,
C) could have polluted waterways,
D) has polluted waterway’s,
’
4
A) NO CHANGE
B) scientists: and
C) scientists, and
D) scientists, and,
5
To make this paragraph most logical, sentence 5
should be placed
A) where it is now
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C) after sentence 2
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costly and time-consuming, they are well worth the
effort
...
Greek yogurt is slightly lower in sugar and carbohydrates
than conventional yogurt is
...
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Should the writer do this?
A) Yes, because it does not provide a transition
from the previous paragraph
...
C) No, because it continues the explanation of how
acid whey can be disposed of safely
...
7
A) NO CHANGE
B) as
C) like
D) for
8
A) NO CHANGE
B) containing
C) contains
D) will contain
9
A) NO CHANGE
B) In other words,
C) Therefore,
D) For instance,
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benefits have prompted Greek yogurt’s recent surge in
popularity
...
Because consumers reap the nutritional
benefits of Greek yogurt and support those who make
and sell 11 it, therefore farmers and businesses should
continue finding safe and effective methods of producing
the food
...
...
These health
2
21
10
A) NO CHANGE
B) fulfilled
C) complacent
D) sufficient
11
A) NO CHANGE
B) it, farmers
C) it, so farmers
D) it: farmers
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2
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Dark Snow
Most of Greenland’s interior is covered by a thick
layer of ice and compressed snow known as the
Greenland Ice Sheet
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12
Which choice most accurately and effectively
represents the information in the graph?
A) NO CHANGE
B) to 12 degrees Fahrenheit
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D) to 10 degrees Fahrenheit and stay there for
months
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©2014 by World Meteorological Organization
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2
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This follows several weeks of
higher temperatures
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Most scientists looking for the causes of
the Great Melt of 2012 have focused exclusively on rising
temperatures
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But Jason 15 Box, an associate
professor of geology at Ohio State believes that another
factor added to the early 16 thaw; the “dark snow”
problem
...
23
13
Which choice most effectively combines the two
sentences at the underlined portion?
A) summer, following
B) summer, and this thawing follows
C) summer, and such thawing follows
D) summer and this evidence follows
14
A) NO CHANGE
B) However,
C) As such,
D) Moreover,
15
A) NO CHANGE
B) Box an associate professor of geology at
Ohio State,
C) Box, an associate professor of geology at
Ohio State,
D) Box, an associate professor of geology, at
Ohio State
16
A) NO CHANGE
B) thaw; and it was
C) thaw:
D) thaw: being
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tundra fires in 2012 from as far away as North America
produced great amounts of soot, some 17 of it drifted
over Greenland in giant plumes of smoke and then
18 fell as particles onto the ice sheet
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As Box explains, “Soot is an extremely powerful
light absorber
...
” The result is a self-reinforcing cycle
...
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According to Box, a leading Greenland expert,
2
24
17
A) NO CHANGE
B) soot
C) of which
D) DELETE the underlined portion
...
C) begins to cool at a certain point
...
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2
2
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[2] According
to scientists, rising Arctic temperatures are making
northern latitudes greener and thus more fire prone
...
[4] Box is currently organizing an expedition
to gather this crucial information
...
[6] Members of the public will be able to track his
team’s progress—and even help fund the
expedition—through a website Box has created
...
25
21
A) NO CHANGE
B) itself,
C) itself, with damage and
D) itself possibly,
22
To make this paragraph most logical, sentence 4
should be placed
A) where it is now
...
C) after sentence 2
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Coworking: A Creative Solution
When I left my office job as a website developer at a
small company for a position that allowed me to work
full-time from home, I thought I had it made: I gleefully
traded in my suits and dress shoes for sweatpants and
slippers, my frantic early-morning bagged lunch packing
for a leisurely midday trip to my refrigerator
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Within a month, I found
myself feeling isolated despite having frequent email and
instant messaging contact with my colleagues
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It was
during this time that I read an article 25 into coworking
spaces
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26
23
A) NO CHANGE
B) was promptly worn
C) promptly wore
D) wore
24
A) NO CHANGE
B) colleagues were important for sharing ideas
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D) I missed having colleagues nearby to consult
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The spaces
are usually stocked with standard office 26 equipment,
such as photocopiers, printers, and fax machines
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28 The cost of launching a new coworking business in
the United States is estimated to be approximately
$58,000
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Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
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quotation from someone who described coworking
spaces as “melting pots of creativity
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suggest that the most valuable resources provided by
coworking spaces are actually the people 30 whom use
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Perceived Effect of Coworking on Business Skills
positive impact
negative impact
ideas relating
to business 2%
creativity
71%
3%
68%
ability to focus
completing tasks
in a given time
standard of work
74%
12%
64%
8%
62%
3%
Adapted from “The 3rd Global Coworking Survey
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Which choice most effectively completes the
sentence with relevant and accurate information
based on the graph above?
A) NO CHANGE
B) 71 percent of respondents indicated that using a
coworking space increased their creativity
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D) respondents revealed that their ability to focus
on their work improved by 12 percent in a
coworking space
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[2] Because I was
specifically interested in coworking’s reported benefits
related to creativity, I chose a facility that offered a bright,
open work area where I wouldn’t be isolated
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[4] Periods of quiet, during which everyone worked
independently, were broken up occasionally with lively
conversation
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Over time, I’ve
gotten to know several of my coworking 32 colleagues:
another website developer, a graphic designer, a freelance
writer, and several mobile app coders
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In fact, it’s the diversity
of their talents and experiences that makes my coworking
colleagues so valuable
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taking a quick tour of the facility, I took a seat at
a table and got right to work on my laptop
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broad terms, philosophy is the study of meaning and the
values underlying thought and behavior
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Because philosophy 36 teaching students not what
to think but how to think, the age-old discipline offers
consistently useful tools for academic and professional
achievement
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38 Therefore, between 1992 and
1996, more than 400 independent philosophy
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A) NO CHANGE
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D) Nevertheless,
35
A) NO CHANGE
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C) speaking in a way more pragmatically,
D) in a more pragmatic-speaking way,
36
A) NO CHANGE
B) teaches
C) to teach
D) and teaching
37
Which choice most effectively sets up the
information that follows?
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receiving an increasing number of job offers
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of study, students have resisted majoring in
philosophy
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philosophy and have markedly increased the number of
philosophy programs offered
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the number of four-year graduates in philosophy has
grown 46 percent in a decade
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measured by standardized test scores
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philosophy have no intention of becoming philosophers;
instead they plan to apply those skills to other disciplines
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39
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B) writing, and these results can be
C) writing, which can also be
D) writing when the results are
40
A) NO CHANGE
B) have scored
C) scores
D) scoring
41
A) NO CHANGE
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C) students major
D) student’s majors
42
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following sentence
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point about the employability of philosophy
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twenty-first-century students
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professional skills all argue for maintaining and
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academic institutions
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The number of phones that she has left to fix
at the end of each day can be estimated with the
equation P = 108 − 23d, where P is the number of
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m=
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⎟
⎜
⎟
⎜ 1,200 ⎟⎜
⎟⎜
⎟
⎜
⎝
⎠⎝
1,200 ⎠
N
⎛
r ⎞
⎟ −1
⎜1 +
⎟
⎜
⎟
⎜
⎝
1,200 ⎠
P
The formula above gives the monthly payment m
needed to pay off a loan of P dollars at r percent
annual interest over N months
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A) 8
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C) −1
D) −8
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11
b = 2
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40x
In the equations above, b and c represent the price
per pound, in dollars, of beef and chicken,
respectively, x weeks after July 1 during last
summer
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60
B) $2
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95
D) $3
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7
on the line?
A) (0, 7)
B) (1, 7)
C) (7, 7)
D) (14, 2)
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If x > 3, which of the following is equivalent
to
A)
B)
1
1
1
+
x+2 x+3
?
2x + 5
2
x + 5x + 6
x 2 + 5x + 6
2x + 5
C) 2x + 5
D) x 2 + 5x + 6
14
8x
If 3x − y = 12 , what is the value of y ?
2
A) 212
B) 44
C) 82
D) The value cannot be determined from the
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h
w
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h
r
w
V = wh
b
b
1
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2
a
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r
h
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s 45°
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45°
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h
w
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4
Target heart rate (beats per minute)
John runs at different speeds as part of his training
program
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interval is the target heart rate strictly increasing then
strictly decreasing?
160
120
80
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Time (minutes)
A) Between 0 and 30 minutes
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C) Between 50 and 65 minutes
D) Between 70 and 90 minutes
2
If y = kx , where k is a constant, and y = 24 when
x = 6 , what is the value of y when x = 5 ?
A)
6
B) 15
C) 20
D) 23
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t
1
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m
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lines s and t are parallel
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Based on the information given in the
box above, how many 1-milligram doses are there in
one 2-decagram container?
A)
0
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If the total
number of installations is 27,500, what is an
appropriate label for the vertical axis of the graph?
A) Number of installations (in tens)
B) Number of installations (in hundreds)
C) Number of installations (in thousands)
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8
For what value of n is n − 1 + 1 equal to 0 ?
A)
0
B)
1
C)
2
D) There is no such value of n
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The formula above shows the relationship
between a, the speed of a sound wave, in feet per second,
and t, the air temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit (°F)
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a + 1,052
B) t =
1
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D) t =
1
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11
Which of the following numbers is NOT a solution
of the inequality 3x − 5 ≥ 4x − 3 ?
A) −1
B) −2
C) −3
D) −5
12
Number of apples
a = 1,052 + 1
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What does the C-intercept represent in the graph?
A) The initial cost of renting the boat
B) The total number of boats rented
C) The total number of hours the boat is rented
D) The increase in cost to rent the boat for each
additional hour
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16
Which of the following represents the relationship
between h and C ?
A) C = 5h
B) C =
3
h+5
4
C) C = 3h + 5
D) h = 3C
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17
y
y = f(x)
1
O
1
x
The complete graph of the function f is shown in the
xy-plane above
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50 each and drinks for
$2
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The food truck’s revenue from selling a
total of 209 salads and drinks in one day was
$836
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How many salads were sold that day?
A)
77
B)
93
C)
99
D) 105
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Alma bought a laptop computer at a store that gave a
20 percent discount off its original price
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Which of the following represents the original
price of the computer in terms of p ?
A) 0
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88
C) (0
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08) p
D)
p
(0
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08)
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50
21
Dreams Recalled during One Week
None
1 to 4
5 or more
Total
Group X
15
28
57
100
Group Y
21
11
68
100
Total
36
39
125
200
The data in the table above were produced by a sleep
researcher studying the number of dreams people
recall when asked to record their dreams for one
week
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If a person
is chosen at random from those who recalled
at least 1 dream, what is the probability that the
person belonged to Group Y ?
A)
68
100
B)
79
100
C)
79
164
D)
164
200
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Questions 22 and 23 refer to the following information
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Which of the following best approximates the
average rate of change in the annual budget for
agriculture/natural resources in Kansas from 2008 to
2010 ?
A)
$50,000,000 per year
B)
$65,000,000 per year
C)
$75,000,000 per year
D) $130,000,000 per year
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23
Of the following, which program’s ratio of its
2007 budget to its 2010 budget is closest to the
human resources program’s ratio of its 2007 budget
to its 2010 budget?
A) Agriculture/natural resources
B) Education
C) Highways and transportation
D) Public safety
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4
Which of the following is an equation of a circle in
the xy-plane with center (0, 4) and a radius with
⎛4 ⎞
endpoint ⎜ , 5⎟ ?
⎜3 ⎟
⎟
⎜
⎝
⎠
A)
25
x 2 + ( y − 4)2 =
9
B)
x 2 + ( y + 4)2 =
25
9
C)
x 2 + ( y − 4)2 =
5
3
D)
x 2 + ( y + 4)2 =
3
5
25
h = − 4
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After
approximately how many seconds will the ball hit the
ground?
A) 3
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0
C) 4
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0
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26
Katarina is a botanist studying the production of
pears by two types of pear trees
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Based on Katarina’s
observation, if the Type A trees produced 144 pears,
how many pears did the Type B trees produce?
A) 115
B) 120
C) 124
D) 173
27
A square field measures 10 meters by 10 meters
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The
students count the earthworms contained in the soil
to a depth of 5 centimeters beneath the ground’s
surface in each region
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Region
A
B
C
D
E
Number of
Number of
Region
earthworms
earthworms
107
F
141
147
G
150
146
H
154
135
I
176
149
J
166
Which of the following is a reasonable
approximation of the number of earthworms to a
depth of 5 centimeters beneath the ground’s surface
in the entire field?
A)
150
B)
1,500
C)
15,000
D) 150,000
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y
II
I
x
III
IV
If the system of inequalities y ≥ 2x + 1 and
y>
1
x − 1 is graphed in the xy-plane above, which
2
quadrant contains no solutions to the system?
A) Quadrant II
B) Quadrant III
C) Quadrant IV
D) There are solutions in all four quadrants
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20
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10
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–5 – 4 –3 –2 –1 O
–5
–10
–15
– 20
y = x2 – 2x – 15
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
x
A
Which of the following is an equivalent form of the
equation of the graph shown in the xy-plane above,
from which the coordinates of vertex A can be
identified as constants in the equation?
A) y = (x + 3)(x − 5)
B) y = (x − 3)(x + 5)
C) y = x(x − 2) − 15
D) y = (x − 1)2 − 16
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The posted weight limit for a covered wooden bridge
in Pennsylvania is 6000 pounds
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weight of the empty delivery truck and its driver is
4500 pounds, what is the maximum possible value
for x that will keep the combined weight of the
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total number of 30-minute time slots the station can
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