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What should you do when you begin the SAT Reading section on the first passage?
Circle and read the excerpt or blurp before the beginning of the passage! Gain as much information as possible!!
What are two things you must remember to take with you the day of the test?
admission ticket, ID ( calculator-on a saturday)
Every day, millions of shoppers hit the stores in full force—both online and on foot—searching frantically for the perfect gift. Last year, Americans spent over $30 billion at retail stores in the month of December alone. Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers. This frequent experience of gift-giving can engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers. Many relish the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds with one’s closest peers. At the same time, many dread the thought of buying gifts; they worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended recipients.
11) The authors most likely use the examples in lines 1-9
of the passage (“Every . . . showers”) to highlight the
A) regularity with which people shop for gifts.
B) recent increase in the amount of money spent on
gifts.
C) anxiety gift shopping causes for consumers.
D) number of special occasions involving
gift-giving.
Choice A is the best answer. Lines 1-9 include examples of how many people shop (“millions of shoppers”), how much money they spend (“over $30 billion at retail stores in the month of December alone”), and the many occasions that lead to shopping for gifts (“including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers.”). Combined, these examples show how frequently people in the US shop for gifts.
Choice B is incorrect because even though the authors mention that “$30 billion” had been spent in retail stores in one month, that figure is never discussed as an increase (or a decrease). Choice C is incorrect because lines 1-9 provide a context for the amount of shopping that occurs in the US, but the anxiety (or “dread”) it might cause is not introduced until later in the passage. Choice D is incorrect because lines 1-9 do more than highlight the number of different occasions that lead to gift-giving.
Geoffrey’s historical treatment of the legend is often 3 [sited] as evidence that the queen of Camelot existed, as the book chronicles the lives of a number of historical rulers.
In brackets:
A. No change
B. insighted
C. cited
D. incited
C. cited
According to Box, a leading Greenland expert, tundra fires in 2012 from as far away as North America produced great amounts of soot, some of it drifted over Greenland in giant planes of smoke and then fell as particles onto the ice sheet.
A. No Change
B. soot
C. of which
D. DELETE the underlined portion
C. of which
"This passage is from Lydia Minatoya, The Strangeness of Beauty. ©1999 by Lydia Minatoya. The setting is Japan in 1920. Chie and her daughter Naomi are members of the House of Fuji, a noble family."
What type of reading will this article be?
Literal fiction or Just a good old story
A semi colon is comparable to...
a period
For these questions, you will consider how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas or to correct the errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation.
Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of the passage or a location in the passage. Others will ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
Many questions include a “NO CHANGE” option. Choose that option if you think the best choice is to leave the relevant portion of the passage as it is.
Read the following:
Stories of kings and queens have captivated readers for centuries, and arguably, the tales of King Arthur and Guinevere are among the most enchanting. Arthur ruled the kingdom of Camelot, and Guinevere was his queen. But were they real people or fictional characters? The debate has continued for centuries. Though many scholars have found evidence that the legendary Arthur was, at the very least, based on a real person who lived in Britain roughly between 450 and (1) [500 CE. They continue] to search for the historical identity of Guinevere.
In brackets:
A. No change
B. 500 CE. Continuing
C. 500 CE, continuing
D. 500 CE, they continue
D. 500 CE, they continue
In this version, Guinevere possesses little if any agency of her own. 4 In this second version, Guinevere is an active participant in court politics; her partnership with Arthur is characterized by mutual respect, and he accepts her advice on important issues.
Which choice most effectively sets up the portrayal of Guinevere discussed in the rest of the paragraph?
A. However, Chretien de Troyes, a French poet and contemporary of Geoffrey, painted a very different version of the queen.
B. Chretien de Troyes was a French poet who lived in the same century; he wrote many beautiful and moving poems that involved the knights of King Arthur.
C. Many historians believe that the French poet Chretien de Troyes was the original writer to introduce Lancelot's character into the romance of Arthur and Guinevere.
D. In his poem Eric and Enide, the French poet Chretien de Troyes depicts the romance of two lesser known characters in the Arthurian tradition.
A. However, Chretien de Troyes, a French poet and contemporary of Geoffrey, painted a very different version of the queen.
The spaces are usually stocked with standard office equipment, such as photocopiers, printers, and fax machines.
A. NO CHANGE
B. equipment, such as:
C. equipment such as:
D. equipment, such as,
A. NO CHANGE
What should you do after reading the excerpt or blurp before the passage?
Read the questions and draw brackets by the evidence based questions that go together.
(Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?)
You will always read this before you begin to read the passage
what is the excerpt or blurb at the beginning?
5 December alone. Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers. This frequent experience of gift-giving can engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers. Many relish the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds with one’s closest peers. At the same time,many dread the thought of buying gifts; they worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended recipients.
*In line 10, the word “ambivalent” most nearly means
A) unrealistic.
B) conflicted.
C) apprehensive.
D) supportive.
Choice B is the best answer. Lines 9-10 state “This frequent experience f gift-giving can engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers.” In the subsequent entences, those “ambivalent” feelings are further exemplified as onflicted feelings, as shopping is said to be something that “[m]any relish” lines 10-11) and “many dread” (line
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in this context, “ambivalent” doesnot mean feelings that are unrealistic, apprehensive, or supportive.
Yet regardless of whether Guinevere was real or fictional, her story 5 [had endured] for centuries—and through each retelling, she continues to live on in the imaginations of people around the world.
In brackets:
A. NO change
B. was enduring
C. would have endured
D. has endured
Yet regardless of whether Guinevere was real or fictional, her story 5 [had endured] for centuries—and through each retelling, she continues to live on in the imaginations of people around the world.
In brackets:
A. NO change
B. was enduring
C. would have endured
D. has endured
What are the two reasons to use an apostrophe?
Possession and contraction
Read Passage 1:
Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the _bonds_ of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any, that are not of it. This any number of men may do, because it injures not the freedom of the rest; they are left as they were in the liberty of the state of nature. When any number of men have so consented to make one community or government, they are thereby presently incorporated, and make one body politic, wherein the majority have a right to act and conclude the rest.
For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority: for that which acts any community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way; it is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it, which is the _consent of the majority_: or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body, one community, which the consent of every individual that united into it, agreed that it should; and so every one is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority.
The main idea of Passage 1 is that
A. It is safer for people to live in a state of nature than to consent to live in a community.
B. People who choose to become part of a community are subject to the will of the majority.
C. . People were not wanting to be part of the society.
D. It is unrealistic to expect people to surrender their natural liberties when joining a community.
B. People who choose to become part of a community are subject to the will of the majority.
The 4 types of passages in the Reading section are..
Science, Social Science, Literal Fiction, Humanities/history
Guinevere first appeared as King Arthur’s queen in one of the most widely-studied works of Arthurian literature, 2 [The History of the Kings of Britain. This book] was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth around 1135 CE.
Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the bracket portion?
A. The History of the Kings of Britain, and this book
B. The History of the Kings of Britain, which
C. a book called The History of the Kings of Britain, as this
D. a book called The History of the Kings of Britain, and this
B. The History of the Kings of Britain, which
3 words for Tone
What is
Tone, attitude, overall feelings, the point of view, best characterized as, mood, best described as, perspective, behavior
The giraffes neck is really long.
A)No change
B)Giraffes'
C)Giraffe's
D)Giraffe
C - Giraffe's
Read Passage 2:
The Social Contract is the supreme act by which each citizen pledges to the association his love, his intelligence, his work, his services, his goods, in return for the affection, ideas, labor, products, services and goods of his fellows; the measure of the right of each being determined by the importance of his contributions, and the recovery that can be demanded in proportion to his deliveries.
Thus the social contract should include all citizens, with their interests and relations. — If a single man were excluded from the contract, if a single one of the interests upon which the members of the nation, intelligent, industrious, and sensible beings, are called upon to bargain, were omitted, the contract would be more or less relative or special, it would not be social.
The social contract should increase the well-being and liberty of every citizen. — If any one-sided conditions should slip in; if one part of the citizens should find themselves, by the contract, subordinated and exploited by the others, it would no longer be a contract; it would be a fraud, against which annulment might at any time be invoked justly.
Which statement best reflects the perspective of the author of Passage 2 on the dissolution of the social contract?
A. The contract should never be dissolved under any circumstances.
B. The contract should only be dissolved if every person is in favor of it.
C. The contract should be dissolved if any people are being oppressed.
D. The contract should be dissolved if a majority of the population agrees that it is the best course of action.
C. The contract should be dissolved if any people are being oppressed.
True or False: You should always leave questions blank that you don't know and then return to them after you have completed the ENTIRE reading portion.
False, you should guess before you continue to the next passage. (The same letter is suggested if you must guess)
Akira came directly, breaking all tradition. Was that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his mother to speak to his father to approach a go-between—would Chie have been more receptive? He came on a winter’s eve. He pounded on the door while a cold rain beat on the shuttered veranda, so at first Chie thought him only the wind. The maid knew better. Chie heard her soft scuttling footsteps, the creak of the door. Then the maid brought a calling card to the drawing room, for Chie.
8 As used in line 2, “form” most nearly means
A) appearance.
B) custom.
C) structure.
D) nature
Choice B is the best answer.
In line 1, the narrator suggests that Akira’s direct approach broke “all tradition.” The narrator then wonders if Akira had “followed form,” or the tradition expected of him, would Chie have been more receptive to his proposal. In this context, following “form” thus means following a certain tradition or custom.
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in this context “form” does not mean the way something looks (appearance), the way it is built (structure), or its essence (nature).
Words for Citing Textual Evidence
What is the best evidence?
The students behavior was unacceptable.
A) No change
B) Student's
C) students’
D) Students's
C) students’