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DIGITAL
SAT
EXAM
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Reading and Writing
54 QUESTIONS
DIRECTIONS
The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each question includes one or more
passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to
the question based on the passage(s). All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question
has a single best answer.
1- It's likely that Web browsing strengthens brain 2- Planned obsolescence, a practice whereby
functions related to fast-paced problem solving, products are designed to have a limited period of
particularly when it requires spotting patterns in usefulness, has been a cornerstone of
a(n) _ of data. A British study of the way manufacturing strategy for the past 80 years. This
women search for medical information online approach increases sales, but it also stands in
indicated that an experienced Internet user can, at contrast to a time when goods were
least in some cases, assess the trustworthiness and produced to be durable. Planned obsolescence
probable value of a Web page in a matter of wastes materials as well as energy in making and
seconds. The more we practice surfing and shipping new products; it also reinforces the belief
scanning, the more adept our brain becomes at that it is easier to replace goods than to mend them.
those tasks.
Which choice completes the text with the most
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) austere
B) egregious
A) queue C) unmitigated
D) stark
B) welter
C) order
D) array
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3- MIT business scholars Erik Brynjolfsson and 6- Scientist James Clark and graduate student
Andrew McAfee have argued that impressive Jason McLachlan of Duke University conducted a
advances in computer technology-from improved study to address a central scientific problem in
industrial robotics to automated translation explaining the diversity of tree species in a forest.
services -are largely behind the sluggish "In the mathematical models ecologists use to
employment growth of the last 10 to 15 years. describe how different species compete for
resources such as light, moisture and nutrients, it
Even more ominous for workers, they foresee
can be difficult to get species to coexist," he said.
_ prospects for many industries once
"In models, slight advantages allow one species to
considered safe, such as law, financial services, 'out-compete' the other, leading to extinction, that
education, and medicine. is, loss of biodiversity. And so, ecologists have put
a lot of effort into trying to understand the
differences among species that allow one species
Which choice completes the text with the most
to coexist with another species." Explaining such
logical and precise word or phrase? coexistence that occurs routinely in real life is
A) gruesome critical, if ecologists are to truly understand forest
biodiversity and the forces that sustain or reduce
B) monotonous it.
C) ordinary
According to the text, why does Clark feel that
D) dismal mathematical models are insufficient to study
biodiversity?
4- The impact of the poor economy is reflected in
the of families able to afford a vacation
A) They do not account for changes that take
this year.
place over the course of centuries.
A) dearth B) Their results do not accurately reflect
B) glut observations in the natural world.
A) perfunctory
B) consummate
C) illustrious
D) nuanced
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7- Astronomers found a large body orbiting close
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In Caddo, a language from what is now the US
to the star Upsilon Andromedae. The standard Southeast, vocabulary pertaining to corn
theory of planet formation holds that no planet that cultivation resembles equivalent vocabulary in the
large could be formed so close to a star, leading to Totozoquean language family in Mexico. This
the suggestion that the body is a companion star. resemblance is perhaps attributable to cultural
A subsequent discovery puts that suggestion in contact: such words could have entered Caddo
doubt: two other large bodies were found orbiting through the intermediary of the neighboring but
close to Upsilon Andromedae, and the standard unrelated Chitimacha language, concurrent with
theory of companion stars allows for at most one the dissemination of corn itself from Mexico into
companion star. the Southeast after 700 CE. That the vocabulary
pertaining to domestic crops accompanies them as
Which of the following, if true, most helps to they diffuse into new regions is an established
resolve the status of the orbiting body without phenomenon globally. Crops may also be
casting doubt on the two standard theories decoupled from vocabulary altogether: corn
mentioned? cultivation became ubiquitous among the
Southeastern tribes, yet
A) The smaller a planet orbiting a star is, and the
farther away it is from the star, the less likely it is Which choice most effectively uses data from the
to be discovered. table to complete the statement?
B) If a planet’s orbit is disturbed, the planet can A) the origins of vocabulary pertaining to the crop
be drawn by gravity toward the star it is orbiting. vary across languages in the region, with the words
C) It is likely that there are many stars, in for corn in Cherokee and the Muskogean
addition to Upsilon Andromedae and the Sun, that languages showing no demonstrable relationship
are orbited by more than one smaller body. to Totozoquean vocabulary.
D) In most cases of companion stars, the smaller B) words for corn in the languages of the
companion is much fainter than the larger star Muskogean family evolved from a common root,
with the Muscogee word having lost certain
consonant sounds still present in the Chickasaw
8- and Choctaw words.
C) corn-related vocabulary underwent changes
when entering other, unrelated languages, as can
be seen by the divergence of the Caddo word from
the Chitimacha word it originated in.
D) the region is linguistically diverse, being home
not only to Chitimacha and Caddo, but also to the
Muskogean language family (including
Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Muscogee) and to one
Iroquoian language (Cherokee).
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9- Urbanization, industrialization, and the
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A) Under both temperature conditions, less than
warming climate create thermal pollution (excess 10% of sites were in the up-to-25% group, but at
heat) in the shallow subsurface soil. Susanne A. the maximum plausible surface temperature,
Benz and colleagues analyzed thousands of sites almost 80% of sites could have all their local
on three continents under one scenario in which heating needs met by thermal pollution.
surface temperature remains at the current level
and under another in which the surface reaches the B) At current surface temperatures, more than 80%
maximum plausible temperature. They then of the sites have no need for supplemental local
categorized each site according to the percentage home heating from subsurface thermal pollution,
of local home heating needs that could be met but at the maximum plausible surface temperature,
using this excess subsurface heat. The team more than 70% of sites exhibit significantly
greater home heating needs.
C) At current surface temperatures, more than 80%
of sites can meet, at most, 25% of local home
heating needs with subsurface thermal pollution,
but at the maximum plausible surface temperature,
more than 80% of sites can meet greater than 25%
of local home heating needs.
D) At current surface temperatures, more than
80% of the sites cannot use subsurface thermal
pollution to meet any portion of local home
heating needs, but at the maximum plausible
surface temperature, that percentage drops below
20%.
What is the main purpose of the text? What is the function of the image of a sea in the
overall structure of the text?
A) To describe the working conditions suffered by
miners A) It shows the difficulties of expressing love.
B) To encourage miners to avoid making
compromises B) It refers to the person that the author loves.
C) To convince the government to change C) It represents the depth of the author's love.
conditions of miners
D) To initiate negotiations with the guards at the D) It indicates that the course of love is
mines complicated.
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16- In 1964, renowned physicist Richard Feynman
Text 1 was appointed to the government panel tasked
with investigating the cause of the Challenger
The Guinea worm is a parasite contracted disaster. Feynman's expertise went beyond just
primarily by drinking unpurified water. It lives in as he was also a pioneering contributor
the digestive tract for about a year, where it can to the field of quantum mechanics.
grow to about a meter long. There is no vaccine
and no treatment for the pain when the adult Which choice completes the text so that it
parasite moves towards the skin, forms a blister, conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
and finally erupts. Often victims suffer from
debilitating secondary infections, but fortunately A) investigating, though:
this condition is almost eradicated: there were only
15 reported cases in 2021. B) investigating, though,
C) investigating. Though,
Text 2
D) investigating though
About forty percent of the known species in the
world are parasitic. Parasites are organisms that
17- In 2007, two highly successful full-time
survive to the detriment of others, and range from
engineers at a US car company faced the same
microbes to plants to insects and worms. However,
dilemma. Both Julie Levine and Julie Rocco desire
parasites often have a very limited habitat that is
a healthier work/life balance, but they were
restricted by the host, but they play multiple
hesitant to give up their managerial roles
essential roles in the ecosystem such as
overseeing the production of new vehicles. In
maintaining populations. Therefore, it is important
order to retain these top engineers, the company
to study and preserve them.
proposed a creative __ sharing.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely
Which choice completes the text so that it
respond to the last sentence in Text 1?
conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) With understanding, because some parasites are
A) solution; job
too dangerous to survive
B) solution. Job
B) With sadness, because the worm does not really
cause people injury C) solution job
C) With trepidation, because there could be D) solution: job
unforeseen repercussions
18- The opening of the Empire State building
D) With appreciation, because a painful parasite is coincided with the start of the Great Depression.
almost gone As a result, much of the new _ _ office
space remained empty for months.
A) skyscrapers’
B) skyscraper’s
C) skyscrapers
D) skyscrapers’s
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19- Invented in 1851, wet plate photography
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21- When scientists cracked open the Murchison
produces images that are marvelously fine-grained meteorite, which fell in Australia in
and detailed, and they seem to glow with an discovered that it was chock-full of carbon and
ethereal silvery light. One misstep or a speck of organic materials. It also had an odd smell,
dust on the glass plate, though, and flaws appear. reminiscent of the New York City subway—
Smudges resembling oyster shells _ metallic, with musty and bitter hints.
around the photo’s edges. Since the film requires
long exposures, moving subjects blur. A) 1969, and scraped the material on the inside,
they
Which choice completes the text so that it
conforms to the conventions of Standard English? B) 1969 and scraped the material on the inside they
C) 1969, scraped the material on the inside, they
A) swirl
D) 1969, and scraped the material on the inside—
B) will have swirled they
C) have swirled
D) swirled 22- It wasn’t that long ago that putting food in
liquid nitrogen was something you’d only see in a
high school science class, but it’s also becoming a
20- As the United States stood on the brink of a mainstay of modernist cooking. It’s odorless,
Second World War, the push for aeronautical it’s so cold (–320.44°F to be exact), it
advancement grew ever greater, spurring an boils at room temperature and evaporates out of
insatiable demand for mathematicians. Ushered your food as it rapidly chills it.
into the Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory in 1935 to shoulder the burden of A) tasteless, and harmless because
number crunching, .
B) tasteless, and harmless, and because
A) engineers were freed from hand calculations in C) tasteless and harmless, because
the decades before the digital age by dozens of
women acting as human “computers.” D) tasteless, harmless and because,
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1- The idea that the schematic figures of medieval
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3- The following text is from William Beckford's
art represent a haphazard "loss" of realistic 1786 novel Vathek, An Arabian Tale. It was not
techniques in anatomic modeling and long before Vathek discovered abundant reason to
representation of perspective has been by art regret his precipitation; for, though he could not
historians who specialize in the Middle Ages. decipher the characters himself, yet, by constantly
Such figures, these specialists argue, achieve new poring upon them, he plainly perceived that they
expressive and decorative potential through every day changed; and, unfortunately, no other
intentional departures from realism. candidate offered to explain them. This perplexing
occupation inflamed his blood, dazzled his sight,
Which choice completes the text with the most
and brought on such a giddiness and debility that
logical and precise word or phrase?
he could hardly support himself.
A) Disputed
B) Corroborated
C) Expounded As used in the text, what does the word
D) Hyperbolized "occupation" most nearly mean?
Which choice best describes the function of the 19- It turns out that 21.6 percent of the population
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
in the United States is bilingual and can speak a
language other than English in their homes.
A) To remark upon an exception to the previous
that may seem like a large percentage, it
sentence's criticisms
B) To introduce a premise for the test outlined in is far lower than the worldwide average of 43
the subsequent sentence percent of the population speaking at least two
C) To balance the satire in the subsequent sentence
languages.
with a more objective depiction
D) To suggest a solution to the problem noted in
the previous sentence
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?
A) Although
B) Because
C) Despite
D) Since
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2 Often misunderstood by novice
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22- People often join martial arts such as karate,
photographers, megapixels indicate a judo, and taekwondo in order to increase their
image quality. The quality of an image is amount of weekly exercise in an interesting way.
actually determined by factors such as lens Those who participate for extended periods,
though, typically cite the development of personal
quality, sensor size, and ISO sensitivity.
qualities-particularly _ the reason they continue.
A) he
B) that A) associates
B) associates-
C) whom C) associates,
D) associates:
D)who
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24- Not long after the Pinkertons surrendered,
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26- While researching a topic, a student has taken
Pennsylvania governor Robert Pattison authorized the following notes:
the militia to advance and placed the town of
Homestead under martial law. In the days that • Honore de Balzac was a French novelist who is
regarded as one of the founders of realism in
followed, steel production at the plant resumed, European literature.
with strikebreakers living on the too dangerous • Balzac is renowned for his complex narratives
for them to cross the picket. and morally gray characters.
• From 1829-1848, Balzac published a series of
novels titled La Comedic humaine.
• La Comedic humaine consists of multiple
Which choice completes the text so that it comprehensive narratives depicting various facets
conforms to the conventions of Standard English? of post-Napoleonic French society.
• Balzac's anthology provides an unadulterated
criticism of class structure, material wealth, and
A) mills grounds: it was political corruption.
B) mills' grounds-it was still
C) mill's grounds, it was
D) mill's grounds; it was still The student wants to introduce La Comedic
humaine to an audience unfamiliar with the
anthology and its author. Which choice most
25- A 2017 study of sign language learners effectively uses relevant information from the
tested the role of iconicity-the similarity of a notes to accomplish this goal?
sign to the thing it represents-in language
acquisition. The study found that the greater the A) True to his realist style, French novelist Honore
iconicity of a sign, the more likely it was to have de Balzac lambasted what he deemed to be a
dishonorable society in his anthology La Comedic
been learned. _the correlation between
humaine.
acquisition and iconicity was lower than that
B) French novelist Honore de Balzac is considered
between acquisition and another factor studied: by many to be one of the founders of European
sign frequency. literary realism.
C) Honore de Balzac, who wrote La Comedic
humaine, was a French novelist who is known for
Which choice completes the text with the most creating intricate storylines and morally vague
logical transition? characters.
D) A commentary on post-Napoleonic French
A) In fact, society, La Comedic humaine was written by
B) In other words, Honore de Balzac, a French novelist who is
C) Granted considered to be one of the founders of European
D) As a result, literary realism.