SAT · Reading and Writing · Standard English Conventions

Form, Structure, and Sense

63 questions from the official practice tests. Page 1 of 3.

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19 — 19 Literary agents estimate that more than half of all nonfiction books credited to a celebrity or other public figure are in fact written by ghostwriters, professional authors who are paid to write other blank but…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20 — 20 Like other amphibians, the wood frog (Rana sylvatica) is unable to generate its own heat, so during periods of subfreezing temperatures, it blank by producing large amounts of glucose, a sugar that helps prevent…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 22

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 22 — 22 In many of her landscape paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, Lebanese American artist Etel Adnan worked to capture the essence of California’s fog-shrouded Mount Tamalpais region through abstraction, using splotches…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 24

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 24 — 24 African American Percy Julian was a scientist and entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to see. Named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years, blank led…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 19

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 19 — 19 In his groundbreaking book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald uses newspaper articles, census records, ships’ logs, and memoirs to tell the blank who made New York City their…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 24

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 24 — 24 Working from an earlier discovery of Charpentier’s, chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna—winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—re-created and then reprogrammed the so-called “genetic scissors”…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 25

Practice test 4Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 25 — 25 In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By reducing the runoff flowing into city…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20 — 20 Lê Lươ ng Minh became the thirteenth secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January 2013, making blank the first time the organization would appoint a Vietnamese leader. Which…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21 — 21 In 1929, Edwin Herbert Land invented a polarizing filter that was featured in a number of products, from sunglasses to 3D movies. A decade later, Land blank his technology to invent the world’s first instant camera,…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 22

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 22 — - - - - 22 An online content creator who uses copyrighted songs without permission risks being demonetized (prohibited from including paid advertisements in content). The best way to avoid demonetization is to choose…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23 — 23 What makes the theremin a unique musical instrument? You play it without touching it. When you place your blank the pitch will shift as your hands move through the air. Which choice completes the text with the most…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 24

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 24 — - - - - 24 In the music video for the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, the singer lists 118 political and cultural references. Such iconic references, cited in rapid and frenetic procession by the…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 18

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 18 — - ~ - - - - - - 18 How did whales, once no bigger than seals, evolve to become the largest animals on Earth? Brazilian biologist Mariana Nery believes the answer might be found in whales’ DNA. In January 2023, Nery and…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20 — - - - - - - - - 20 When they were first introduced to western Europe from Byzantium in the eleventh century, table forks were met with much resistance. The Bishop of Ostia, St. Peter Damian, condemned the eating…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 24

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 24 — - - - - 24 In her 1983 book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild first explored at length her conception of a “sociology of emotions”—the idea that the various…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 25

Practice test 5Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 25 — - - - - 25 American abstract artist Richard blank his installations to make passersby keenly aware of how one’s movements are affected by the physical features of one’s environment, assembles large-scale steel plates…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19 — - - - - 19 The Boston Saloon was one of the most popular African American–owned establishments in nineteenth-century Nevada. blank by businessman William A.G. Brown, the saloon was known to offer elegant accommodations…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21 — - - - - 21 “He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man.” This line is from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). It’s an example of…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23 — 23 In a painting titled “The Milkmaid” by Johannes Vermeer, the artist prominently features a bread basket, milk pitcher, and bowl. Such quotidian objects, depicted in exquisite detail by Vermeer, a painter celebrated…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20 — - - - - 20 One of the few African American global explorers during the turn of the 20th century, blank Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A) Matthew Henson made…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 21

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 21 — - - - - 21 Woven from recycled yarn and hand tufted using a carpet weaving technique passed down by the artist’s Turkish grandmother, blank so lush and tactilely inviting that you are tempted to reach out and touch…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 26

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 26 — 26 A species of Byropsis algae produces toxins to avoid being eaten by predators. However, in some cases, the toxins the organism uses to protect itself from predation actually blank its attractiveness to predators. The…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 19 — 19 One of the earliest known maps is a Babylonian clay tablet thought to be almost 4,500 years old. The map blank the area of a plot of land, shows a river valley, and includes the cardinal directions. Which choice…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 20 — 20 Eighteen letters written by Louisa May Alcott, author of the popular novel Little Women (1868), can be found at the New York Historical Society. blank letters demonstrate Alcott’s keen business sense in her…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 21 — 21 The Dust Bowl was a period of severe drought that plagued the Great Plains of the US during the 1930s. During this time, dust storms blank over 100 million acres of land. They even reached as far east as New York…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 23 — 23 Featuring jagged peaks of black ink surrounded by hazy swirls of blue and green paint, Zhang Daqian’s 1983 painting Panorama of Mount Lu is inspired by the tradition of qinglü shanshui, a type of Chinese landscape…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 25

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 25 — 25 Wanting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska Purchase, blank up with a motto that best captured the state’s unique character. The commission selected “North to the Future,” submitted by Juneau journalist…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 19

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 19 — 19 Nowadays, tug-of-war is usually seen as an informal game one might play at a picnic or in gym class. Surprisingly, the Olympic committee once decided _______ tug-of-war as an official Olympic event! Nations competed…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 20 — 20 The Globe Theatre in London is a reconstruction of the famed venue where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed. In 1613, a prop cannon blank during a performance and ignited the Globe’s thatched roof. No…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 22

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 22 — 22 When a given industry—water and electricity are two well-known examples—carries high infrastructural start-up costs and other barriers that discourage competition, blank of just one or two suppliers per municipality.…

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