The Revolution in SAT
The Revolution in SAT
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happen,she that humans will someday need legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka
to be able to live in other environments than continuously worked to promote public
those foundon Earth. This conjecture informs her health; this effort
interest in future research missions to the moon. involved traveling throughout the vast
Navajo homeland and writing a medical
Which choice completes the text with the most dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad,
logical and precise word or phrase? the Navajo language.
A) demands Which choice completes the text with the
B) speculates most logical and precise word or phrase?
C) doubts A) impartial
D) establishes B) offhand
C) persistent
D) mandatory
3- Following the principles of community-based 4- The parasitic dodder plant increases its
participatory research, tribal nations and reproductive success by flowering at the same
research institutions are equal partners in health time as the host plant it has latched onto. In
studies conducted on reservations. A 2020, Jianqiang Wu andhis colleagues
collaboration between the Crow Tribe and determined that the tiny dodder achieves this
Montana State University this model: with its host by
tribal citizens worked alongsidescientists to absorbing andutilizing a protein the host
design the methodology and continue to assist in produces when it is aboutto flower.
data collection. Which choice completes the text with the
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
most logical and precise word or phrase? A) synchronization
A) circumvents B) hibernation
B) eclipses C) prediction
C) fabricates D) moderation
D) exemplifies
5- Given that the conditions in binary star 6- Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo
systems should make planetary formation television’s tendency to
nearly impossible, it’s not surprising that the situate Native characters in the distant past: this
existence of planets in such systems has lacked rejection is evidentin his series Reservation Dogs,
________ explanation. which revolves aroundteenagers who dress in
Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced
on the subject when they used modeling to with current slang.
determinea complex set of factors that could Which choice completes the text with
support planets’ development. the mostlogical and precise word or
phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the A) repudiates
mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
B) proclaims
A) a discernible C) foretells
B) a straightforward D) recants
C) an inconclusive
D) an unbiased
7- For painter Jacob Lawrence, being was an 8- Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at
important part of the artistic process. Because he Brazil’s Butantan Institute are
paid close attention to all the details of his studying the freshwater stingray
Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork
species Potamotrygon rex to
captured nuancesin the beauty and vitality of the
determine whether biological
Black experience during the Harlem Renaissance
characteristics such as the rays’age
and the Great Migration.
and sex have effect on the toxicity
Which choice completes the text with the of their venom—that is, to see if
mostlogical and precise word or phrase? differences in these traits are
associated with considerable
A) skeptical
variations invenom potency.
B) observant
Which choice completes the text with
C) critical the mostlogical and precise word or
D) confident phrase?
A) a disconcerting
B) an acceptable
C) an imperceptible
D) a substantial
9- Researchers have struggled to pinpoint 10- Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion
specific causes for hiccups, which happen rarely
when a person’s diaphragm contracts . in a world where artists create
However, neuroscientist Kimberley timeless works for exhibition and designers
Whitehead has found that these periodically produce new styles for the public
uncontrollable contractions may play an to buy. Luiseño/ Shoshone-Bannock beadwork
important role in helping infants regulate artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges this
theirbreathing. view: her work can beseen in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and purchased through her
Which choice completes the text with the most
online boutique.
logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the
a. involuntarily mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
b. beneficially
A) prevail
c. strenuously
B) succumb
d. smoothly
C) diverge
D) intersect
13- The province of Xoconochco was situated on the 14- As Mexico’s first president from an Indigenous
Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast community, Benito Juarez became one of the most
ofTenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. figures in his country’s history:
Because Xoconochco’s location within the among the many significant accomplishments of
his long tenure
empire was so , cacao and other trade
in office (1858–1872), Juarez consolidated the
goods produced there could reach the capital
authority of the national government and advanced the
only after along overland journey. rights of Indigenous peoples.
Which choice completes the text with the most Which choice completes the text with the most logical
logical and precise word or phrase? and precise word or phrase?
A) unobtrusive A) unpredictable
B) concealed B) important
C) approximate C) secretive
D) peripheral D) ordinary
15- Due to their often strange images, highly 16- The Cambrian explosion gets its name from the
experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, sudden appearance and rapid diversification of
many of John Ashbery’s poems can be quite animal remains in the fossil record about 541
difficult to and thus are the object of heated million years ago, during the Cambrian period.
debate among scholars. Some scientists argue that this change in the
Which choice completes the text with the most fossil record might be because of a shift in many
logical and precise word or phrase? organisms to body types that were more likely to be
preserved.
A) delegate
Which choice completes the text with the most
B) compose logical and precise word or phrase?
C) interpret
A) catastrophic
D) renounce
B) elusive
C) abrupt
D) imminent
17- During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, 18- Within baleen whale species, some individuals
Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the develop an accessory spleen—a seemingly
skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early functionless formation of splenetic tissue outside
Bronze Age society, buried with valuable the normal spleen. Given the formation’s greater
objects signaling a high position of power. This prevalence among whales known to make deeper
finding may persuade researchers who have dives, some researchers hypothesize that its role
argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by isn’t. ; rather, the accessory spleen may
men to that women may have also held actively support diving mechanisms.
leadership roles.
Which choice completes the text with the
Which choice completes the text with the most most logical and precise word or phrase?
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) replicable
A) waive B) predetermined
B) concede C) operative
C) refute D) latent
D) require
19- According to a US tax policy expert, state taxes 20- The author’s claim about the relationship between
are other factors when considering an Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is , as it fails
interstate move. Even significant differences in to account for several recent archaeological
state taxation have almost no effect on most discoveries. To be convincing, his argument
people’s decisions, while differences in would need to address recent finds of additional
employment opportunities, housing availability, hominid fossils, such as the latest Denisovan
and climate are strong influences. specimens and Homo longi.
Which choice completes the text with the Which choice completes the text with the most
most logical and precise word or phrase? logical and precise word or phrase?
A) consistent with A) disorienting
B) representative of B) tenuous
C) overshadowed by C) nuanced
D) irrelevant to D) unoriginal
23- Interruptions in the supply chain for microchips 24- For her 2021 art installation Anthem, Wu Tsang
used in personal electronics have challenged an joined forces with singer and composer Beverly
economist’s assertion that retailers can expect Glenn-Copeland to produce a piece that critics
robust growth in sales of those devices in the found truly : they praised Tsang for
coming months. The delays are unlikely to creatively transforming a museum rotunda into a
_______her projection entirely but will almost dynamic exhibit by projecting filmed images of
certainly extend its time frame.
Glenn-Copeland onto a massive 84-foot curtain
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and and filling the space with the sounds of his and
precise word or phrase? other voices singing.
A) dispute Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
B) withdraw precise word or phrase?
C) underscore A) restrained
D) invalidate B) inventive
C) inexplicable
D) mystifying
Figures Questions
Some researchers studying Indigenous actors and filmmakers in the United States have turned their attention to the early
days of cinema, particularly the 1910s and 1920s, when people like James Young Deer,Dark Cloud, Edwin Carewe, and
Lillian St. Cyr (known professionallyas Red Wing) were involved in one way or another with numerous films. In fact, so
many films and associated records for this era have been lost that counts of those four figures’ output should be taken as
bare minimums rather than totals; it’s entirely possible, for example, that
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to
complete theexample?
A) Dark Cloud acted in significantly fewer films than did
Lillian St.Cyr, who is credited with 66 performances.
B) Edwin Carewe’s 47 credited acting roles includes only films
madeafter 1934.
C) Lillian St. Cyr acted in far more than 66 films and Edwin
Carewedirected more than 58.
D) James Young Deer actually directed 33 films and acted in only 10.
Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Isabelle Storer, and Rocío Perez-Barrales recently examined several plots within a diverse plant
community in southeast Spain. The researchers calculated that if individual plants were randomly distributed on this
particular landscape, only about 15%would be with other plants in patches of vegetation. They counted the number of
juvenile plants of five species growing in patches of vegetation and the number growing alone on bare ground and
compared those numbers to what would be expected if the plants were randomly distributed. Based on these results, they
claim that plants of these species that grow in close proximity to other plants gain an advantage at an early developmental
stage.
Which choice best describes data from the table that support the
researchers’ claim?
A) For all five species, less than 75% of juvenile plants were
growing inpatches of vegetation.
B) The species with the greatest number of juvenile plants
growing inpatches of vegetation was H. stoechas.
C) For T. libanitis and T. moroderi, the percentage of juvenile
plantsgrowing in patches of vegetation was less than
what would be expected if plants were randomly
distributed.
D) For each species, the percentage of juvenile plants
growing in patches of vegetation was substantially higher
than what would beexpected if plants were randomly
distributed.
Over the past two hundred years, the percentage of the population employed in the agricultural sector has declined in both France
and the United States, while employment in the service sector (which includes jobs in retail, consulting, real estate, etc.) has risen.
However, this transition happened at very different rates in the two countries. This can be seen most clearly by comparing the
employment by sector in both countries in
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to
complete the statement?
A) 1900 with the employment by sector in 1950.
B) 1800 with the employment by sector in 2012.
C) 1900 with the employment by sector in 2012.
D) 1800 with the employment by sector in 1900.
5- Considering a large sample of companies, economics experts Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf, and Raghuram Rajan assessed
the number of managers
and leaders from different departments who reported directly to a chief executive officer (CEO). According to the researchers,
the findings suggest that across the years analyzed, there was a growing interest among CEOs in connecting with more
departments in their companies.
Which choice best describes data from the graph that support the researchers’ conclusion?
a. The average numbers of managers and department leaders reporting directly to their CEO didn’t
fluctuate from the 1991–1995 periodto the 2001–2008 period.
b. The average number of managers reportingdirectly to their CEO was highest in the 1996–2001
period.
c. The average number of department leaders reporting directly to their CEO was greater thanthe average
number of managers reporting directly to their CEO in each of the three periodsstudied.
d. The average number of department leaders reporting directly to their CEO rose over thethree periods
studied.
6- Economists Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens Jr. investigated a variety of factors that influence voter turnout in the
United States. Using survey data that revealed whether respondents voted in national elections and how knowledgeable respondents
are about politics, Charles and Stephens claim that the likelihood of voting is driven in part by potential voters’ confidence in their
assessments of candidates—essentially, the more informed voters are about politics, the more confident they are at evaluating
whether candidates share their views, and thus the more likely they are to vote.
Which choice best describes data in the graph that support Charles and Stephens’s claim?
A) At each point on the political orientation scale, high-information voters were more likely than low-
information voters to vote.
B) Only low-information voters who identify as independents had a voting probability below 50%.
C) The closer that low-information voters are to the ends of the political orientation scale, the more likely
they were to vote.
D) High-information voters were more likely to identify as strong Democrats or strong Republicans than low-
information voters were.
7- To investigate the effect of lizard predation on spider populations, a student in a biology class placed spiders in
two enclosures, one with lizards and one without, and tracked the number of spiders in the enclosures for 30
days. The student concluded that the reduction in the spider population count in the enclosure with lizards by day
30 was entirely attributable to the presence of the lizards.
Which choice best describes data from the graph that weaken the student’s conclusion?
A) The spider population count was the same inboth enclosures on day 1.
B) The spider population count also substantiallydeclined by day 30 in the enclosure without lizards.
C) The largest decline in spider population count inthe enclosure with lizards occurred from day 1 today 10.
D) The spider population count on day 30 was lower in the enclosure with lizards than in theenclosure
without lizards.
8- Perovskite solar cells convert light into electricity more efficiently than earlier kinds of solar cells, and manufacturing
advances have recently made them commercially attractive. One limitation of the cells, however, has to do with their electron
transport layer (ETL), through which absorbed electrons must pass. Often the ETL is applied through a process called spin
coating, but such ETLs are fairly inefficient
at converting input power to output power. André Taylor and colleagues tested a novel spray coating method for applying the
ETL. The team produced ETLs of various thicknesses and concluded that spray coating holds promise for improving the
power conversion efficiency of ETLs in perovskite solar cells.
Which choice best describes data from the graph that support Taylor and colleagues’ conclusion?
A) Both the ETL applied through spin coating and the ETL applied through spray coating showed a
power conversion efficiency greater than 10% at their lowest performing thickness.
B) The lowest performing ETL applied through spray coating had a higher power conversion efficiency
than the highest performing ETL applied through spin coating.
C) The highest performing ETL applied through spray coating showed a power conversion efficiency of
approximately 13%, while the highest performing ETL applied through spin coating showed a power
conversion efficiency of approximately 11%.
D) There was a substantial difference in power conversion efficiency between the lowest and highest
performing ETLs applied through spray coating.