Joe biden's evil frankstein

sat reading

100

“Matter, sir? O what could be the matter in your service. I’ve eaten your salt for all my years. But sir, on the bicycle now, with my old legs, and with the 60 many injuries I’ve received when heavy machinery fell on me—I cannot any longer bicycle about like a bridegroom from farm to farm, as I could when I first had the good fortune to enter your employment. I beg you, sir, let me go.”

Nawab uses the word “bridegroom” (line 62) mainly to emphasize that he’s no longer

A) in love. B) naive. C) busy. D) young.

D) young.

200

The recovery of southern sea otters appears to have taken an upturn, according to results from the annual California sea otter survey released by the U.S. Geological Survey. Yet despite an overall increase in sea otter abundance, sharks have been “taking a bite” out of the portion of the population that could fuel expansion into new areas.

“There’s much more to the story here than the main finding would suggest,” said Dr. Tim Tinker, a research ecologist who leads the USGS sea otter research program. “We are looking into various factors that may be affecting the survey results, including a boom in urchin abundance from Big Sur to Monterey that may explain the uptick in numbers in the range center, and high levels of shark bite mortality that are likely responsible for continued declines at the north and south ends of the range.”

As used at the end of the first paragraph, “fuel” most nearly means

A)stimulate

B)reinforce

C)support

D)provide

A)stimulate

300

The recovery of southern sea otters appears to have taken an upturn, according to results from the annual California sea otter survey released by the U.S. Geological Survey. Yet despite an overall increase in sea otter abundance, sharks have been “taking a bite” out of the portion of the population that could fuel expansion into new areas.

“There’s much more to the story here than the main finding would suggest,” said Dr. Tim Tinker, a research ecologist who leads the USGS sea otter research program. “We are looking into various factors that may be affecting the survey results, including a boom in urchin abundance from Big Sur to Monterey that may explain the uptick in numbers in the range center, and high levels of shark bite mortality that are likely responsible for continued declines at the north and south ends of the range.”

This year’s survey results suggest an increasing trend over the last five years of almost 2 percent per year and the population index, a statistical representation of the entire population calculated as the three-year running average of census counts, has climbed to 3,054 from 2,711 in 2010. The growth is accounted for by an unexpected jump in numbers in the center of the sea otter’s range, an area that spans from Monterey south to Cambria.

The passage characterizes the main finding of the 2015 sea otter survey conducted by the US Geological Survey as

A)initially promising, because it shows that the southern sea otter will not become an endangered species.

B)very significant, because it validates the recent efforts of sea otter conservation groups working along the California coast.

C)ultimately inconclusive, because it does not incorporate data from sea otter population surveys conducted before 2010.

D)somewhat misleading, because it does not make it clear that the southern sea otter population trends varied throughout the range.

D)somewhat misleading, because it does not make it clear that the southern sea otter population trends varied throughout the range.

400

The recovery of southern sea otters appears to have taken an upturn, according to results from the annual California sea otter survey released by the U.S. Geological Survey. Yet despite an overall increase in sea otter abundance, sharks have been “taking a bite” out of the portion of the population that could fuel expansion into new areas.

“There’s much more to the story here than the main finding would suggest,” said Dr. Tim Tinker, a research ecologist who leads the USGS sea otter research program. “We are looking into various factors that may be affecting the survey results, including a boom in urchin abundance from Big Sur to Monterey that may explain the uptick in numbers in the range center, and high levels of shark bite mortality that are likely responsible for continued declines at the north and south ends of the range.”

This year’s survey results suggest an increasing trend over the last five years of almost 2 percent per year and the population index, a statistical representation of the entire population calculated as the three-year running average of census counts, has climbed to 3,054 from 2,711 in 2010. The growth is accounted for by an unexpected jump in numbers in the center of the sea otter’s range, an area that spans from Monterey south to Cambria.

While the population index continues to trend upward, the northern and southern subsets of the population continue a five-year decline, dropping 2 percent and 3.4 percent per year, respectively, numbers consistent with increased shark bite induced mortality in these same areas.

Since the 1980s, USGS scientists have computed the annual population index and evaluated trends in the southern sea otter, “Enhydra lutris nereis,” a federally listed threatened species found in California. For southern sea otters to be considered for removal from threatened species listing under the Endangered Species Act, the population index would have to exceed 3,090 for three consecutive years.

The lines on the graph represent the 3-year running average of the southern sea otter population in the north, central, and south coastal regions.

Based on the passage and the graph, what can reasonably be inferred about predatory shark activity in the south region?

A)It steadily decreased between 2000 and 2003.

B)It affected otters at a consistent rate between 2003 and 2006.

C)It was more of a threat to sea otters in 2003 than in 2009.

D)It was at its highest level in 2009

C)It was more of a threat to sea otters in 2003 than in 2009.

500

DOUBLE POINT question

The news is a form of public knowledge. Unlike personal or private knowledge (such as the health of one’s friends and family; the conduct of a Line private hobby; a secret liaison), public knowledge 5 increases in value as it is shared by more people. The date of an election and the claims of rival candidates; the causes and consequences of an environmental disaster; a debate about how to frame a particular law; the latest reports from a war zone—these are all 10 examples of public knowledge that people are generally expected to know in order to be considered informed citizens. Thus, in contrast to personal or private knowledge, which is generally left to individuals to pursue or ignore, public knowledge is 15 promoted even to those who might not think it matters to them. In short, the circulation of public knowledge, including the news, is generally regarded as a public good which cannot be solely demand-driven. 20 The production, circulation, and reception of public knowledge is a complex process. It is generally accepted that public knowledge should be authoritative, but there is not always common agreement about what the public needs to 25 know, who is best placed to relate and explain it, and how authoritative reputations should be determined and evaluated. Historically, newspapers such as The Times and broadcasters such as the BBC were widely regarded as the trusted shapers of authoritative 30 agendas and conventional wisdom. They embodied the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of authority as the “power over, or title to influence, the opinions of others.” As part of the general process of the transformation of authority whereby there has 35 been a reluctance to uncritically accept traditional sources of public knowledge, the demand has been for all authority to make explicit the frames of value which determine their decisions. Centres of news production, as our focus groups show, have not been 40 exempt from this process. Not surprisingly perhaps some news journalists feel uneasy about this renegotiation of their authority: .

 Editors are increasingly casting a glance at the “most read” lists on their own and other websites to work out which stories matter to readers and viewers. And now the audience—which used to know its place—is being asked to act as a kind of journalistic ombudsman, ruling on our credibility (broadcast journalist, 2008). The result of democratising access to TV news could be political disengagement by the majority and a dumbing down through a popularity contest of stories (online news editor, 2007). Despite the rhetorical bluster of these statements, they amount to more than straightforward professional defensiveness. In their reference to an audience “which used to know its place” and conflation between democratisation and “dumbing down,” they are seeking to argue for a particular mode of public knowledge: one which is shaped by experts, immune from populist pressures; and disseminated to attentive, but mainly passive recipients. It is a view of citizenship that closes down opportunities for popular involvement in the making of public knowledge by reinforcing the professional claims of experts. The journalists quoted above are right to feel uneasy, for there is, at almost every institutional level in contemporary society, scepticism towards the epistemological authority of expert elites. There is a growing feeling, as expressed by several of our focus group participants, that the news media should be “informative rather than authoritative”; the job of journalists should be to “give the news as raw as it is, without putting their slant on it”; and people should be given “sufficient information” from which “we would be able to form opinions of our own.” At stake here are two distinct conceptions of authority. The journalists we have quoted are resistant to the democratisation of news: the supremacy of the clickstream (according to which editors raise or lower the profile of stories according to the number of readers clicking on them online); the parity of popular culture with “serious” news; the demands of some audience members for raw news rather than constructed narratives.

The authors indicate that the public is coming to believe that journalists’ reports should avoid

A) personal judgments about the events reported.

B) more information than is absolutely necessary.

C) quotations from authorities on the subject matter.

D) details that the subjects of news reports wish to keep private.

A) personal judgments about the events reported.

sat writing

100

The History of Blue Laws

 1  The first occurrence of the phrase “blue law” is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of “our Connecticut’s old Blue Laws”. In his 1781 book General History of  2  Connecticut — the Reverend Samuel Peters used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth century that prohibited various  3  activities, recreational, as well as commercial, on Sunday. Sometimes the sale of certain types of merchandise was prohibited, and in some cases all retail and business activity.

 4  Not all Americans greeted these developments with enthusiasm; numerous shopkeepers and tavern-owners blatantly stayed open on Sundays and ignored the blue laws. Rather, the word blue was used in the seventeenth century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them. This is also the origin of the word, “blue-stocking,” meaning an individual with a strict personal code.  5  

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late nineteenth  6  century. Laws targeted numerous  7  groups including saloon owners, Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, as well as non-religious people. These laws enacted at the state and local levels  8  would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance. Numerous people were arrested for playing cards, baseball, and even fixing wagon wheels on Sunday. In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court  9  have held blue laws as constitutional numerous times due to secular rationales, even though the original rationales for the blue laws were religious in nature. The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland (1961), that Maryland’s blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It approved the state’s blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended “to serve as a uniform day of rest for all citizens” on a secular  10  basis and promoting the secular values of “health, safety, recreation, and general well-being” through a common day of rest.  11

3  

A)NO CHANGE

B)activities, recreational as well as commercial,

C)activities: recreational as well as commercial

D)activities—recreational as well as commercial,

 

B)activities, recreational as well as commercial,

200

The History of Blue Laws

 1  The first occurrence of the phrase “blue law” is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of “our Connecticut’s old Blue Laws”. In his 1781 book General History of  2  Connecticut — the Reverend Samuel Peters used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth century that prohibited various  3  activities, recreational, as well as commercial, on Sunday. Sometimes the sale of certain types of merchandise was prohibited, and in some cases all retail and business activity.

 4  Not all Americans greeted these developments with enthusiasm; numerous shopkeepers and tavern-owners blatantly stayed open on Sundays and ignored the blue laws. Rather, the word blue was used in the seventeenth century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them. This is also the origin of the word, “blue-stocking,” meaning an individual with a strict personal code.  5  

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late nineteenth  6  century. Laws targeted numerous  7  groups including saloon owners, Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, as well as non-religious people. These laws enacted at the state and local levels  8  would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance. Numerous people were arrested for playing cards, baseball, and even fixing wagon wheels on Sunday. In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court  9  have held blue laws as constitutional numerous times due to secular rationales, even though the original rationales for the blue laws were religious in nature. The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland (1961), that Maryland’s blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It approved the state’s blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended “to serve as a uniform day of rest for all citizens” on a secular  10  basis and promoting the secular values of “health, safety, recreation, and general well-being” through a common day of rest.  11

2  

A)NO CHANGE

B)Connecticut the

C)Connecticut; the

D)Connecticut, the

 

D)Connecticut, the

300

A subway system is expanded to provide service to a growing suburb. A bike-sharing program is adopted to encourage nonmotorized transportation. Highlight start. To alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area, stoplight timing is coordinated. Highlight end.To alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area, stoplight timing is coordinated. When any one of these changes occur, it is likely the result of careful analysis conducted by transportation planners.

Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?

A)No change

B)Coordinating stoplight timing can help alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area.

C)Stoplight timing is coordinated to alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area.

D)In a congested downtown area, stoplight timing is coordinated to alleviate rush hour traffic jams.

C)Stoplight timing is coordinated to alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area.

400

The History of Blue Laws

 1  The first occurrence of the phrase “blue law” is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of “our Connecticut’s old Blue Laws”. In his 1781 book General History of  2  Connecticut — the Reverend Samuel Peters used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth century that prohibited various  3  activities, recreational, as well as commercial, on Sunday. Sometimes the sale of certain types of merchandise was prohibited, and in some cases all retail and business activity.

 4  Not all Americans greeted these developments with enthusiasm; numerous shopkeepers and tavern-owners blatantly stayed open on Sundays and ignored the blue laws. Rather, the word blue was used in the seventeenth century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them. This is also the origin of the word, “blue-stocking,” meaning an individual with a strict personal code.  5  

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late nineteenth  6  century. Laws targeted numerous  7  groups including saloon owners, Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, as well as non-religious people. These laws enacted at the state and local levels  8  would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance. Numerous people were arrested for playing cards, baseball, and even fixing wagon wheels on Sunday. In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court  9  have held blue laws as constitutional numerous times due to secular rationales, even though the original rationales for the blue laws were religious in nature. The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland (1961), that Maryland’s blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It approved the state’s blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended “to serve as a uniform day of rest for all citizens” on a secular  10  basis and promoting the secular values of “health, safety, recreation, and general well-being” through a common day of rest.  11

4  Which of the following sentences would most effectively establish the main topic of the paragraph?

A)NO CHANGE, leave the sentence as it is

B)Blue laws contributed to the emergence of an American political tradition—minority-rights politics—which forces Americans to consider whether the majority should always rule.

C)Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.

D)Some individuals claimed that blue laws violated the protections of religious liberty enshrined in state and national constitutions.

  

C)Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.

500

DOUBLE POINT question

The History of Blue Laws

 1  The first occurrence of the phrase “blue law” is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of “our Connecticut’s old Blue Laws”. In his 1781 book General History of  2  Connecticut — the Reverend Samuel Peters used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth century that prohibited various  3  activities, recreational, as well as commercial, on Sunday. Sometimes the sale of certain types of merchandise was prohibited, and in some cases all retail and business activity.

 4  Not all Americans greeted these developments with enthusiasm; numerous shopkeepers and tavern-owners blatantly stayed open on Sundays and ignored the blue laws. Rather, the word blue was used in the seventeenth century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them. This is also the origin of the word, “blue-stocking,” meaning an individual with a strict personal code.  5  

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late nineteenth  6  century. Laws targeted numerous  7  groups including saloon owners, Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, as well as non-religious people. These laws enacted at the state and local levels  8  would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance. Numerous people were arrested for playing cards, baseball, and even fixing wagon wheels on Sunday. In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court  9  have held blue laws as constitutional numerous times due to secular rationales, even though the original rationales for the blue laws were religious in nature. The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland (1961), that Maryland’s blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It approved the state’s blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended “to serve as a uniform day of rest for all citizens” on a secular  10  basis and promoting the secular values of “health, safety, recreation, and general well-being” through a common day of rest.  11

5  The writer wants to add a sentence with additional information on the origin of the word “blue” to this paragraph. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?

A)Blue laws continued to be popular well into the 20th century.

B)Rooted in the basic Christian tenet that Sunday is to be reserved as “the Lord’s day,” blue laws were originally enacted across the United States to encourage church attendance.

C)The first blue law, although not called that at the time, was enacted in colonial Virginia in 1610.

D)Another etymological possibility is the similarly called “Bloody Laws” of medieval England.

 

D)Another etymological possibility is the similarly called “Bloody Laws” of medieval England.

sat math no

100

What is the sum of the complex numbers 2+3i and 4+8i, where i = Square root of−1 ?

A) 17

B) 17i

C) 6 + 11i

D) 8 + 24i

C) 6 + 11i

200

2x^2 - 4x = t 

In the equation above, t is a constant. If the equation has no real solutions, which of the following could be the value of t?

A) −3

B) −1

C) 1

D) 3

A) −3

300

(2/3)t = 5/2

What value of t is the solution of the equation above?

15/4, 3.75

400

How many liters of a 25% saline solution must be added to 3 liters of a 10% saline solution to obtain a 15% saline solution?

1.5

500

Double point question

Points A and B lie on a circle with radius 1, and arc AB has length pi/3 . What fraction of the circumference of the circle is the length of arc AB ?

1/6, .166, or .167

sat math cal

100

What is the sum of the solutions to (x-6)(x+0.7) = 0 

A) −6.7 B) −5.3 C) 5.3 D) 6.7

C) 5.3

200

A customer’s monthly water bill was $75.74. Due to a rate increase, her monthly bill is now $79.86. To the nearest tenth of a percent, by what percent did the amount of the customer’s water bill increase?

A) 4.1% B) 5.1% C) 5.2% D) 5.4%

D 5.4%

300

A laboratory supply company produces graduated cylinders, each with an internal radius of 2 inches and an internal height between 7.75 inches and 8 inches. What is one possible volume, rounded to the nearest cubic inch, of a graduated cylinder produced by this company?

97, 98, 99, 100, and 101

400

DOUBLE point question

In the xy-plane, the graph of y = 3x^2-14 intersects the graph of y = x at the points (0, 0) and (a,a). What is the value of a ?

5 

The intersection points of the graphs of y = 3x 2 − 14x and y = x can be found by solving the system consisting of these two equations. To solve the system, substitute x for y in the first equation. This gives x = 3x 2 − 14x. Subtracting x from both sides of the equation gives 0 = 3x 2 − 15x. Factoring 3x out of each term on the left-hand side of the equation gives 0 = 3x(x − 5). Therefore, the possible values for x are 0 and 5. Since y = x, the two intersection points are (0, 0) and (5, 5). Therefore, a = 5.

500

A school district is forming a committee to discuss plans for the construction of a new high school. Of those invited to join the committee, 15% are parents of students, 45% are teachers from the current high school, 25% are school and district administrators, and the remaining 6 individuals are students. How many more teachers were invited to join the committee than school and district administrators?

8

act

100

DOUBLE POINT QUESTION

A Microscope in the Kitchen

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative. Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

1. NO CHANGE

2. As my mother’s interest is science, she is

3. My mother’s occupation is that of

4. My mother is

D) My mother is

200

Ms. Hernandez began her math class by saying:

I’m thinking of 5 numbers such that their mean is equal to their median. If 4 of the numbers are 14, 8, 16, and 14, what is the 5th number?

What is the 5th number Ms. Hernandez is thinking of?

1. 13

2. 14

3. 15

4. 16

5. 18

   
   

   
   

The correct answer is E. Since there will be an odd number of terms, the median will have to be the middle number. Write out the numbers in the original set in numerical order. You will see no matter where you place the 5th term, the median will be 14. Ms. Hernandez said that the mean is equal to the median, so the mean is also going to be 14. If x = the 5th number, then the mean is 14 = . So, 14(5) = 52 + x, or x = 18.

300

A Microscope in the Kitchen

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative. Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

I have great respect for my mother. I learned early that the moon affected the tides. Mom was always waiting for a full or new moon, when low tide would be lower than average and high tide higher than average. The moon being aligned with Earth and the sun when full or new, so its gravity combines with the sun’s gravity to create an even stronger gravitational pull. I knew that it took about eight hours for the tides to change from high to low, sixteen hours for a complete cycle of tides. I didn’t have to wait to learn these things in school. In our house they were everyday knowledge.

Which choice most effectively signals the shift from the preceding paragraph to this paragraph?

5. NO CHANGE

6. Our lives were likewise affected by the phases of the moon.

7. A relationship exists between the moon and the tides.

8. The moon is a mysterious orb afloat in the sky.

F. Our lives were likewise affected by the phases of the moon.

400

A Microscope in the Kitchen

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative. Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

Which choice would most effectively introduce the rest of this paragraph?

5. NO CHANGE

6. There seemed to be no explanation for why Mom ran our household the way she did.

7. Our household didn’t run according to a typical schedule.

8. Mom ran our household in a most spectacular manner.

G) Our household didn’t run according to a typical schedule.

500

A cube with edges ½ inch long is shown below. What is the length, in inches, of a diagonal that runs from one corner of the cube to the opposite corner?

A. 1/4

B. 3/4

C. 3/2

D. √2 /2

E.  √3 / 2