Practice Tests For The SAT

Dr. Aimee L. Weinstein, D.A.
Author of Bestselling title, "Winning Strategies

for ACT Essay Writing: With 15 Sample
Prompts" & Term Assistant Professor and
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George Mason University
Nina Guise-Gerrity
Private Tutor with over 27 years of SAT, ACT,
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TEST PREP SERIES
PRACTICE TESTS
FOR THE
First Edition
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Structure of SAT
Time Allotted Number of

Component
(minutes) Questions / Tasks
Reading 65 52
Writing & Language 35 44
Math 80 58
Essay (Optional) 50 1
Total 180 (230 with Essay) 154 (155 with Essay)
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4 single passages plus 1 pair of passages; 500 to 750 words each,

Reading
a total of 3,250 words; 10 to 11 questions per passage
Writing & 4 passages, 400 to 450 words each, a total of 1,700 words;
Language 11 questions per passage
1 No-Calculator Section: 25 mins - 20 questions

15 MCQ, 5 Grid-in
Math
1 Calculator Section: 55 mins - 38 questions
30 MCQ, 8 Grid-in
Essay (Optional) Analyze an argument (a passage of 650-750 words)
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Test #1 Reading Test Section #1
Reading Test
65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section
DIRECTIONS
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passage. 30 sigh and each escaping tear of loss and regret even
as my desire for freedom grew. No, if that were all,
I should have submitted to Fate’s dictates, bowing
to the will of her twin handmaidens, Duty and
It took me no more than a month to realise Humility; I should have cherished my dreams as
that I had made a grave error in both my choice 35 JNQPTTJCMFĘJHIUTPGGBODZGSPNXIJDINZOJHIUT
of employment and my employer. In truth, in released me from the drudgery of the day. But
Line such times as those, it was less a choice of which my aversion to Mrs. Van Doran and her clear
5 employer to work for than it was a choice of IPTUJMJUZUPXBSENF FWJEFOUGSPNNZĕSTUIPVS
whether to work at all. Mrs. Van Doren had had began to grow, pressing me down into that well
vacancies and that was all there had been to it. 40 called Despair. Each morning its weight pushed me
At the time it did not occur to me why that was further and further into the poisonous slurry and
always the case. Nobody likes to admit their own solitary darkness that lay at its bottom.
10 GPPMJTIOFTT CVU MPPLJOHCBDL GSPNUIFĕSTU I cannot adequately express the woman’s
day in Tenton I found my work an irritation. antipathy toward me, for it surrounded her
ć FKPCJUTFMGTUJUDIJOHQMBJO XPSLBEBZESFTTFT 45 like a miasma. From the very moment of our
from coarse broadcloth in colours as drab as my acquaintance it seemed prompted by my merest
TVSSPVOEJOHTXBTOPUEJď DVMU CVU PI UIF glance or gesture. It grew with each dress I
15 tedium! Each garment was so alike that even when QSFTFOUFEUPIFSXJUIXIJDITIFXBTVOBCMFUPĕOE
assigned a new model, the design lacked such fault, no matter how hard she tried. She sneered at
imagination as to be virtually indistinguishable 50 my cultured tones and tutored bearing, and became
from the last; even a double hem or an extra row irritated by my skilled workmanship, her mouth
of pin-tucking could have alleviated the boredom a thin, hard line and her small, close-set eyes no
20 for an hour or so, but even that was denied me. I warmer than the polished jet beads she wore around
am not wholly impatient, and realise that in order IFSDPSQVMFOUOFDLć PVHI*IBEEPOFMJUUMFUP
to make my own way in the world (as I had vowed 55 deserve it, I knew the source of her dislike—a small,
I would do) and espouse the role of seamstress I ugly, green-eyed creature—for in no case could
XPVMEOFFEUPGVSUIFSNZDSBę,OPXJOHUIBU * she call herself my superior, save in years. I had
25 could have borne the stagnation of my creative skills equal to her own, and believe she suspected
faculties; my imagination would not have begun that I had a mental store that far surpassed hers.
to scream in the prison of my mind that there was 60 I tried to keep it hidden, and, of a certainty, if she
more to this than the work that progressed beneath
could have found fault, ridiculed me in front of 1

the other women, held up my work as an example
of inadequacy, she probably would have hated me Which choice best summarizes the passage?
less. Her malignity stalked my every move, but I
65 gathered my honor guard of Humility, Watchfulness
A) A young woman’s experience of life begins in
and Patience and never once did her arrows of spite hope but ends in despair.
strike home. #
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small envelope containing my precious wages,
70 startled by the joy it gave me. Not for itself, though $
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it would pay for my lodgings and provide enough supervisor become increasingly bitter.
sustenance to keep me on the mortal plane (though
little more), but the sheer glee of knowing Mrs Van
D) A character regrets a choice but determines to
Doren begrudged every cent of it, but was powerless stand by her decision.
75 to prevent my having it. As I walked to my lodging
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that my evening meal would be spent alone, my
footsteps hammered out two incessant thoughts on
the cold, hard stone. “Dorothea, this torment must
80 end,” said one. “How?” demanded the other. I pulled 2
out my latchkey, noting that no cheery glow greeted
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me, and I resolved at that moment that every ounce
of my not inconsiderable will should be bent on primarily serve to
answering that question. How? A) establish a chronology for the events that
follow.
B) suggest a foundation for Van Doren’s position.
C) indicate the narrator’s reason for repentance.
D) contextualize the narrator’s current emotions.

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A) her dissatisfaction with her present position A) exasperation with Dorothea’s lack of skill.
to a resolution that it must change.
B) envy of Dorothea’s poise and ability.
B) anticipatory delight at making an
C) contempt for Dorothea’s aspirations.
independent living, to regret at her choice of
career. D) impatience with Dorothea’s complaints.
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the reasons she displeases Van Doren.
D) a discussion of her work and its repetitiveness
to the discomfort of her home and its
loneliness. 6
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answer to the previous question?
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B) Lines 47-49 (“It grew … tried”)

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C) Lines 49-51 (“She … workmanship”)
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“solitary darkness” (lines 41-42) are intended to D) Lines 55-57 (“I knew… superior”)
A) encapsulate the narrator’s fear of being

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B) reveal the narrator’s increasing sense of
isolation.
C) emphasize the narrator’s utter dismay at her
plight.
D) indicate that the employer had sinister
intentions.
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At the end of the second paragraph, the author’s Which choice provides the best evidence for the
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A) emphasizing the narrator’s need to escape A) Lines 9-11 (“Nobody … irritation”)
from an intolerable situation.
B) Lines 34-36 (“I should… day”)
B) contrasting the behavior of Van Doren with
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that of the narrator.
D) Lines 82-84 (“I resolved … question”)
C) suggesting that Van Doren was capable of
physically harming Dorothea.
D) illustrating the superior position Van Doren
holds over her workforce.
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receives her pay packet, she is pleased primarily
because
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A) she will have enough to pay for a few small
Based on the passage, Dorothea is best
luxuries.
characterized as
B) her supervisor could not prevent her from
A) quietly determined.
receiving it.
B) foolishly optimistic.
C) she knows her work was good and she
C) subtly aggressive. deserves it.
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board.

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45 so long as they are taught that their condition is
ordained: they have the power to block the wheels
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of woman, in the training of her faculties to
As civilization advances, there is a continual independent thought and logical reasoning, lies the
change in the standard of human rights. In 50 hope of the future. Education frees the mind from
barbarous ages, the right of the strongest was the the bondage of authority and makes the individual
Line only one recognized; but as mankind progressed self-asserting.
5 in the arts and sciences, intellect began to triumph
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over brute force. Change is a law of life and the
rebellion of the ages—was based upon the inherent
development of society a natural growth. Although
55 rights of the individual. Perhaps in none but
to this law we owe the discoveries of unknown
English Colonies could such a revolution have
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10 of travel, and clearer ideas as to the value of human
monarchs and wrested from them many civil rights,
life and thought, yet each successive change has met
which protected women as well as men. At its
with the most determined opposition.
60 outset, women were as active, earnest, determined,
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the lesson of both Church and State, throttling MPęZBQBUSJPUJTNBTNBO BOEGVMMZVOEFSTUPPEUIF
15 science, checking invention, crushing free thought, principles upon which the struggle was based.
persecuting and torturing those who have dared
Among the women who manifested deep
to speak or act outside of established authority.
65 political insight, was Abigail Smith Adams, wife
So entirely has the human will been enslaved that
of John Adams. She early protested against the
monarchs have humbled themselves to popes,
formation of a new government in which women
20 nations have knelt at the feet of monarchs, and
should be unrecognized, demanding a voice and
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representation. In 1776, she wrote to her husband,
freedom—has been lost. Obedience and self-
70 then in the Continental Congress, “In the new code
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of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you
classes, and which naturally grow out of their
to make, I desire you would remember the ladies,
25 condition—are alike opposed to the theory of
and be more generous and favorable to them than
individual rights and self-government.
your ancestors. We will not obey any laws in which
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woman; more sensitive, helpless, and imaginative,
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freighted with the protests of the Revolutionary
30 man did one. Society, including our systems of
Mothers against being ruled without their consent.
jurisprudence, civil and political theories, trade,
From that hour to the present, women have been
commerce, education, religion, friendships, and
80 continually raising their voices against political
family life, have all been framed on the sole idea of
tyranny, and demanding for themselves equality
man’s rights and it is man who takes upon himself
of opportunity in every department of life: Harriet
35 the responsibility of directing and controlling the
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powers of woman.
Rosa Bonheur, and Harriet Hosmer, in art; Mary
ć FQFPQMFXIPEFNBOEBVUIPSJUZGPSFWFSZ 85 Somerville, in science; Dorothea Dix, in prison
thought and action, who look to others for wisdom reform; Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton
and protection, are those who perpetuate tyranny. in the camp. All are part of the great uprising
40 ć FUIJOLFSTBOEBDUPSTXIPĕOEUIFJSBVUIPSJUZ of women out of the lethargy of the past, and
within, are those who inaugurate freedom. throughout global society there are similar minds
Obedience to outside authority to which woman 90 alive to the aggregated wrongs of centuries and
has everywhere been trained, has not only dwarfed inciting their overthrow.
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civilizations develop systems of law and answer to the previous question?
government,
A) Lines 2-6 (“In barbarous… brute force”)
A) free-thinking has been discouraged by both
B) Lines 13-17 (“Subjection… authority”)
Church and State.
C) Lines 30-34 (“Society… man's rights”)
B) revolution and the desire for self-
determination is inevitable. D) Lines 79-82 (“From that… life”)
C) both men and women must have an equal

stake in their formulation.
D) the tyranny of one group requires the
subjugation of others. 14
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education primarily because it
A) prevents a mindset amongst men likely to
12 retard civilization.
According to the authors, a fundamental B) inaugurates freedom of thought and allows

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is that C) teaches Church and State that individual self-
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to authority resulted in persecution, whereas
D) endows women with the patriotism capable of
it is now applauded as progress.
overthrowing tyranny.
B) in the past, systems of government were
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C) in the past, woman failed to protest their
inequality or imprisonment of mind, but now 15
they are unafraid to speak out. As used in line 17, “established” most nearly
D) in the past, physical strength imbued the means
holder with power, whereas the capacity to A) customary
think and reason now holds sway.
B) recognized
C) traditional
D) formal

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protests of the Revolutionary Mothers” (lines 77- TVČSBHFJTQBSUJDVMBSUP"NFSJDB8IJDIPG
78) in order to suggest that the following statements in the passage best
contradicts the student’s claim?
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B) women are holding back the progress of

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dissent. D) Lines 89-91 (“throughout… overthrow”)

D) revolution is as unstoppable as a freight train.
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ĕHVSFJOIJTUPSZ the mechanisms of government and trade.
B) foreshadow the listing of eminent women in C) the subjugation by the powers that be of the
history in the following paragraph. rights of people to how women have been
even more subjugated than men.
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paragraph. D) the struggle for self-determination in the past
to the struggle for self-determination now.
D) provide historical context to the discussion of
the roles and rights of women.
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statements would the author most likely agree?
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education.
C) Women should never risk civil disobedience
for their rights.
D) Only those who assume the burden of
government should receive its privileges.
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One study, for example, looked at an infestation of
yellow star-thistle in the rocky canyons of Idaho.
Nearly half of the plants on America’s Allowing goats to graze the area seemed the only
“endangered” list are under threat from alien 50 available choice as the land was too rocky and
invasive species. Some can be so vigorous that they remote to allow for herbicide spraying or cutting.
Line cover thousands of acres of land. Various measures
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5 have been tried to eradicate them, with varying
the unwanted plant, but had to be quickly removed
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55 well; goats lack discrimination. Another study
removal is expensive because it means digging up
every last piece of the plant with heavy equipment. looking at the eradication of spotted knapweed in
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Cutting creates tonnes of biomass that has to be but before it set seeds, that growth the following
removed or burned, and burning itself is both 60 ZFBSJTTJHOJĕDBOUMZSFEVDFEć FNPUJWBUJPOGPS
polluting and dangerous. Yet there may be a novel, the experiment was to use a natural means of
(yet paradoxically traditional) solution: goats. eradication; the process took just half a day.
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when he grew too fond of them to take them to enormous appetites. Each animal needs 2-4 pounds
65 of biomass per day, and the more nutritionally
the slaughterhouse, he set them to work on some
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the results and began asking if they could borrow Chewing up phragmites, a grass-like invasive reed,
20 UIFĘPDLUPSFNPWFQMBOUTMJLFQPJTPOJWZBOE takes more energy and produces fewer calories
bittersweet. Knox has been successfully destroying UIBOBOJDFDMVNQPGOVUSJFOUSJDIBMGBMGBć BU
70 means that using peripatetic livestock—primarily
non-native species by hiring out his goats for years
now, and claims the goats enjoy the variety.“ć FZ sheep and goats, although cattle and geese are
like the magic of getting on the trailer when all contenders—may not be the panacea that these
25 the food has gone and when the door opens again success stories suggest.
there’s a whole new smorgasbord to eat.” Research has also not investigated whether
Brian Cash runs a company that hires out a 75 UIFSFOUBĘPDLNFUIPEJTGFBTJCMFJOUFSNTPG
mixed herd in Georgia to clear infestations like management. It has been working in Europe for
UIFLVE[VWJOFGSPNQFPQMFTQSPQFSUJFTć FWJOF some time, but farmers in Europe get payments for
30 is a problem in the warm, damp climate of the
eradicating invasive species, along with help toward
southeastern region of the United States. Other the cost of transporting livestock. Andrew Jenner,
80 writing in the Modern Farmer, is clear that this
invasive species like English ivy stop the animals’
diet from becoming monotonous. Cash’s customers model would not work in the U.S.A. What would
ĕOEUIFFYQFSJFODFGBTDJOBUJOHBOEXBUDIXJUI work, he claims, is hard cash when the customer is
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a municipality or the land involved is something the
level in a matter of hours. To make sure vines size of a large back yard, and a barter system when a
85 Texas-sized ranch is concerned. Cattlemen can’t pay
are not tempted to grow back, Cash chops the
roots with a chainsaw and uses a harmless growth the thousands of dollars it costs to clear multiple
JOIJCJUPSPOXIBUTMFę)FTBZTIFQSFGFSTUPNJY acres over two or three visits, but they can provide
40 sheep and goats because while the goats are more winter fodder for goats in exchange for control of
gastrically tolerant, the sheep are better behaved. invasive species. It is an idea worth consideration,
90 especially since some invasive species, like tansy
ć FDPODFQUPGUVSOJOHCBDLUPMJWFTUPDLHSB[JOH ragwort, are poisonous to cattle, but mere hors
as a means of controlling plant growth is now being d’oeuvres to rampageous goats.

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A) optimism that a solution to the issue of
invasive plants has been found, to caution that
it may not be as useful as expected.
B) concern over the threat to America’s native
species to relief that a natural solution to the
problem has been found.
C) interest in the problem of controlling invasive
species to appreciation of the utility of goats
Figure 2 as a natural means of control.
D) admiring the enterprise of Brian Knox
and Brian Cash to skepticism over the
value of academic studies into
single species control.
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lines 23-26 in order to
A) ridicule the solution described.

B) cite a representative viewpoint.
C) present the issue from another perspective.
D) suggest an expert opinion on the matter.
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TQFDJFTEJČFSTGSPN#SJBO,OPYTJOUIBU that current research into the control of invasive
species by goats is
A) the former stumbled on the idea of using
livestock for plant control whereas the latter A) inconclusive because of the volume of
made a deliberate choice. nutritional food the goats need to eat.
B) the former used additional means to ensure B) unlikely to solve the issue of invasive species
plants were eradicated, while the latter used because its focus is too narrow.
only livestock.
C) limited by the need to protect other plants in
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species of plants, while the latter generally
D) impractical because farmers in America are
dealt with a single species.
unable to pay for large scale eradications.
D) the former used only goats to control pest
species whereas the latter used both sheep and
goats.
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removal, but the costs are greater than all the
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63-73) is to growth rates are higher than for goats because
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natural alien invasive species removal.
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D) Lines 79-81 (“Andrew… U.S.A. ”)
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represents the spread of which invasive species?
A) Yellow star-thistle
B) Poison ivy
C) Kudzu vine
D) Spotted knapweed
Questions 32-42 are based on the following Zircon, which contains tiny amounts of cerium
passages. (Ce), was produced by volcanic activity when the
Earth was new, so samples from the Earth’s crust
are almost as old as the Earth itself. Cerium has two
45 GPSNT$FƯ+ and CeƮ+. Under oxidizing conditions
the cerium releases cerium dioxide (CeOǠ), but
under reducing conditions the mineral is stable
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A century ago, two scientists, one from Russia 50 own zircon in the lab, adjusting the composition
and the other from Britain, both working alone, until the chemical signature matched that of ancient
came up with the theory of chemical evolution. samples.What they found was that it contained the
Line Alexander Oparin and John Haldane suggested that highly oxygenated form of cerium, suggesting that
5 a reducing atmosphere could spontaneously create the atmosphere on Earth when life began was rich
the building blocks of life on Earth: amino acids 55 in oxygen, far removed from the noxious quagmire
and sugars. It was a radical notion since a reducing previous studies suggested.
atmosphere lacks oxygen. How could life exist
without it?
10 ć JSUZZFBSTMBUFSBU$IJDBHP6OJWFSTJUZJO Passage 2
America, Stanley Miller, a graduate student, and According to geologists, terrestrial planets
Harold Urey, his supervisor, began experimenting generally have a primary atmosphere formed
with methane, ammonia and hydrogen, the gases by the accretion of light gases, similar to that
believed to have comprised the Earth’s atmosphere. 60 BSPVOE+VQJUFSć FZBSFNPTUMZIZESPHFO BMJUUMF
15 ć FZQVUUIFTFJOBUBOLXJUIUXPFMFDUSPEFT helium and mere traces of everything else. Earth’s
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XBUFSXBTIFBUFEVOUJMWBQPVSĘPXFEJOUPUIF large mass and is close to the sun, giving it pulling
chemical tank, and the current switched on to create power in terms of gravity. Because light gases like
sparks between the electrodes, simulating lightning. 65 helium (He) and hydrogen (H) have a small atomic
20 Essentially, they were recreating in miniature the mass, when they warm up, their velocity increases
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pink-coloured mixture to cool. On testing, it was of rocky materials like iron (Fe) and icy ones like
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25 other combinations of molecules used in building to form the mantle and crust. As the icy materials
proteins. warmed up, their gases were released to form a
ć FTJNQMFFYQFSJNFOUIBTCFDPNFUIFDMBTTJD secondary, reducing atmosphere of 58% water
in terms of abiogenesis, or the production of organic vapor, 23% carbon dioxide, 13% sulfur dioxide, 5%
life forms from inorganic materials, and began a 75 OJUSPHFOEJPYJEF BOEPUIFSHBTFTć BUXBUFS
30 branch of science called prebiotic chemistry. Other vapor condensed into oceans, which dissolved the
experiments followed, with energy sources such carbon-dioxide-forming carbonate rocks.
as thermal energy, and including nitrogen and Proving that was what happened on Earth
hydrogen sulphide, as many scientists believed billions of years ago has not been easy, but now
life on Earth was kick-started by volcanic activity. 80 two scientists at the University of Washington,
35 However, the underlying assumption of a reducing Bruce Fegley, a professor, and Laura Schaefer, his
atmosphere remained unchallenged. assistant, have done just that. Most icy materials
Until, that is, 2011, when Dustin Trail, remain in the outer solar system, but some reached
Bruce Watson and Nicholas Tailby at Rensselaer Earth in the form of small rocky meteorites that
85 retain their chemical composition as they hurtle
Polytechnic Institute began conducting experiments
40 VTJOH[JSDPO ;S4J0ǀ
ć FTFUPMEBEJČFSFOUTUPSZ through space. Fegley and Schaefer examined

masses of these chondrites—the small, icy, rocky 34

meteorites that traveled to Earth from space—from
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combination would have produced as the mini-
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95 organic life just as Miller and Urey had claimed. C) Lines 30-34 (“Other experiments… activity”)
D) Lines 52-56 (“What they… suggested”)
32
As used in line 7, “radical” most nearly means 35

A) thorough Trail, Watson, and Tailby’s conclusions were based
B) belonging to the root of a word on the fact that
C) revolutionary A) their samples of zircon were almost the same

age as the Earth itself.
D) fundamental
B) zircon is produced by volcanic activity.
C) they could produce multiple samples with
WBSZJOH$FƯ+:CeƮ+ in the laboratory.
D) cerium will not dissolve in water in an
33
atmosphere lacking oxygen.
According to Passage 1, the theory that life on
Earth developed from inorganic materials
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at Chicago University.
B) was accepted, although the conditions under 36
which it took place were disputed. According to Passage 2, Earth’s atmosphere lacks
C) relied on experiments producing amino acids large quantities of light gases because
under laboratory conditions. A) their atomic weights are too small to be
%
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experiments with cerium.
B) they accrete into primary atmospheres around
planets like Jupiter.
C) they became trapped in chondrites in the
earth’s crust.
D) its proximity to the sun means they reach
escape velocity.
37 40
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question is the two passages?
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A) Lines 57-60 (“According… Jupiter”)
Passage 1.
B) Lines 64-68 (“Because… pull”)
B) Passage 2 presents support for a unpopular
C) Lines 71-75 (“As the… gases”) theory presented in Passage 1.
D) Lines 89-92 (“Using computer… other”) C) Passage 2 questions the experiments
explained in Passage 1.
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38
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41
A) begin to break down in the Earth’s crust.
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B) are a rare occurrence on Earth.
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C) are classed as icy materials. the author of Passage 1 as
D) contain methane and ammonia. A) an evolutionary condition.
B) a primary atmosphere.
C) a toxic swamp.
D) an assumption.
39
As used in line 94, “emergence” primarily means
A) materialization
42
B) hatching
Oparin and Haldane would likely have responded
C) coming into existence to the Fegler and Schaefer’s results with
D) surfacing A) dismay, because they contradict evidence
produced by Trail, Watson and Tailby.
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a reducing atmosphere.
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began without oxygen.
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experiments were based on chemistry, not
biology.

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