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Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, she _______ that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions to the moon. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  • speculates (correct)
  • doubts
  • demands
  • establishes
  • Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between _______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  • planets’ development
  • theoretical understanding
  • the Crow Tribe and Montana State University (correct)
  • Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee
  • Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

  • To explain how digital scanners work
  • To discuss von Ahn’s invention of reCAPTCHA
  • To call attention to von Ahn’s book-digitizing project (correct)
  • Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

    <p>It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

    <p>To explore the impact of sunlight on manager behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this _______ with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower.

    <p>synchronization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. This rejection is evident in his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around teenagers who dress in contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced with current slang.

    <p>repudiates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is legal.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Computer scientist Luis von Ahn invented a simple security test to keep automated 'bots' out of websites, known as _______.

    <p>reCAPTCHA</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is true about Mother?

    <p>She creates stories and poems for her children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, _______

    <p>You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim about Martín Chambi's photographs?

    <p>Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the example?

    <p>Dark Cloud acted in significantly fewer films than did Lillian St.Cyr, who is credited with 66 performances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ claim?

    <p>For each species, the percentage of juvenile plants growing in patches of vegetation was substantially higher than what would be expected if plants were randomly distributed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?

    <p>The roots of B.tomentosa and B.macrantha cracks in the surface are readily available.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as 'the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the _______ that all life’s virtues derived from this absence.'

    <p>mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

    <p>food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Some historians _______ that this 'tulip mania' was the first historical instance of an asset bubble.

    <p>claim</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

    <p>itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What classic children's board game is a version of an ancient Nepalese game, Paramapada Sopanapata?

    <p>Chutes and Ladders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice most logically completes the text? A) soul,” positing could therefore _______ B) soul”: positing C) soul”; positing D) soul.” Positing

    <p>bring judicial opinions in line with views that are broadly held among philosophers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English in the sentence: Public-awareness campaigns about the need to researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether _______ wanted a bag.

    <p>they</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A) they B) one C) you D) it

    <p>They’re</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the sentence: In 1937, Chinese American screen actor Anna May Wong, who had portrayed numerous villains and secondary characters but never a heroine, finally got a starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter of Shanghai, a film that _______ 'expanded the range of possibilities for Asian images on screen.'

    <p>expanded</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    The SAT Practice Test

    • The SAT Practice Test is a helpful way to prepare for the SAT, and it's recommended to take the test and score it immediately at sat.org/digital-practice.
    • This practice test is for students taking the digital SAT in a non-digital format.

    Reading and Writing Section

    • The reading and writing section has 33 questions, each with one or more passages, which may include a table or graph.
    • Each question has a single best answer, and all questions are multiple-choice with four answer choices.

    Passage 1: Ellen Ochoa and Annie Dodge Wauneka

    • Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa believes that humans will eventually need to live in other environments than those found on Earth.
    • This idea informs her interest in future research missions to the moon.
    • Annie Dodge Wauneka, a Navajo Nation legislator, worked to promote public health in the Navajo homeland, including writing a medical dictionary for speakers of the Navajo language, Diné bizaad.

    Passage 2: Community-Based Research and Binary Star Systems

    • Tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations.
    • The Crow Tribe and Montana State University collaborated on a research project, with tribal citizens designing the methodology and assisting in data collection.
    • Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee used modeling to determine a complex set of factors that could support planetary development in binary star systems.

    Passage 3: Dodder Plant and Seminole/Muscogee Director Sterlin Harjo

    • The parasitic dodder plant flowers at the same time as its host plant, increasing its reproductive success.
    • Jianqiang Wu and colleagues discovered that the dodder plant achieves this synchronization by absorbing and utilizing a protein produced by the host plant.
    • Sterlin Harjo, a Seminole/Muscogee director, rejects the tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past in his TV series Reservation Dogs, which features contemporary teenagers.

    Passage 4: Luis von Ahn and Edith Wharton

    • Computer scientist Luis von Ahn invented a security test to keep automated "bots" out of websites, based on his finding that some words were distorted enough to be unrecognizable by digital scanners but easily readable by humans.
    • Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth features a character, Lily Bart, who has a passion for the appropriate and is sensitive to her surroundings.### The First Version of reCAPTCHA
    • The first version of the reCAPTCHA test asked users to type one known word and one unknown word that scanners couldn't recognize.
    • Correct answers proved the user was human and added data to the book-digitizing project.

    The Function of the Underlined Sentence

    • The underlined sentence creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene.
    • It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict.

    The Study on Sunshine and Optimism

    • A study by finance professor Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior.
    • The team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to actual earnings later reported by companies.
    • The study found that greater exposure to sunshine at work led to more optimistic forecasts.

    The Poem "Poet of Our Race"

    • The poem is from Maggie Pogue Johnson's 1910 poem "Poet of Our Race".
    • The speaker addresses Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author.
    • The poem praises Dunbar for being perceptive regarding people and nature.

    The Main Purpose of the Text

    • The main purpose of the text is to praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature.

    Mother's Characteristics in The Railway Children

    • Mother is always available to play with her children, read to them, and help them with their home-lessons.
    • She writes stories for her children while they are at school and reads them aloud after tea.
    • She creates funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and other special occasions.

    The Poem "To You" by Walt Whitman

    • The poem "To You" is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman.
    • Whitman suggests that readers have not fully understood themselves.

    Martín Chambi

    • Martín Chambi was born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

    • He is considered one of the most renowned figures of Latin American photography.### Chambi's Photographs

    • Chambi's photographs have considerable ethnographic value, capturing diverse elements of Peruvian society.

    • His photographs represent his subjects with dignity and authenticity.

    Art History

    • The poem "To You" does not directly relate to Chambi's photographs.

    Indigenous Actors and Filmmakers

    • Researchers have turned their attention to the early days of cinema, particularly the 1910s and 1920s.
    • People like James Young Deer, Dark Cloud, Edwin Carewe, and Lillian St.Cyr (Red Wing) were involved in numerous films.
    • Counts of their output should be taken as bare minimums, as many films and records from this era have been lost.

    Juvenile Plants

    • Researchers examined plots within a diverse plant community in southeast Spain.
    • They calculated that if individual plants were randomly distributed, only about 15% would be in patches of vegetation.
    • Plants of five species growing in close proximity to other plants gain an advantage at an early developmental stage.
    • The percentage of juvenile plants growing in patches of vegetation was substantially higher than expected if plants were randomly distributed.

    Plant Ecology

    • Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock.
    • The roots of these plants have clusters of fine hairs that secrete both malic and citric acids.

    Sauropod Dinosaurs

    • Herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs could grow more than 100 feet long and weigh up to 80 tons.
    • Some researchers have attributed the evolution of sauropods to increased plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era.
    • There is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution.

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