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The SAT Practice Test

• The practice test is an effective way to prepare for the SAT, and it's recommended to take the practice test and score it at sat.org/digital-practice.

Reading and Writing

• The reading and writing section assesses various skills, including reading passages and answering multiple-choice questions based on the passages.
• Each question has a single correct answer.

Ellen Ochoa and Space Exploration

• Ellen Ochoa, a former astronaut, believes that humans will eventually need to live in environments other than those found on Earth.
• This idea influences her interest in future research missions to the moon.

Annie Dodge Wauneka and Public Health

• Annie Dodge Wauneka, a Navajo Nation legislator, worked to promote public health in the 1950s.
• Her efforts involved traveling throughout the Navajo homeland and creating a medical dictionary for the Navajo language, Diné bizaad.

Community-Based Participatory Research

• Tribal nations and research institutions collaborate as equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations.
• An example of this partnership is the collaboration between the Crow Tribe and Montana State University, where tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and collect data.

Binary Star Systems and Planetary Formation

• The conditions in binary star systems make planetary formation difficult to explain.
• Researchers Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee have shed light on this topic by determining the complex factors that support planetary development in such systems.

Dodder Plant and Host Plants

• The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as its host plant.
• The dodder plant achieves this synchronization by absorbing and utilizing a protein produced by the host plant.

Sterlin Harjo and Representation in Television

• Sterlin Harjo, a Seminole/Muscogee director, rejects the tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past.
• His series Reservation Dogs features teenagers in contemporary clothing and dialogue with current slang.

Luis von Ahn and Digital Books

• Computer scientist Luis von Ahn worked on converting printed books into a digital format in 2007.
• He discovered that some words were distorted, but humans could easily recognize them, leading to the development of a security test to prevent automated "bots" from accessing websites.

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

• The text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, where Lily Bart and a companion walk through a park.
• Lily Bart has a passion for the appropriate and is sensitive to her surroundings, which reflect her own sensations.### reCAPTCHA
• The first version of reCAPTCHA asked users to type one known word and one unrecognized word, which helped to digitize books.
• Correct answers proved the user was human and added data to the book-digitizing project.

Sunshine and Work Behavior

• A study found that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior.
• The study analyzed 29,000 annual earnings forecasts from 1994 to 2010.
• The study found that managers who were exposed to more sunshine before submitting earnings forecasts tended to be overly optimistic.

Poem Analysis

• The poem "Poet of Our Race" by Maggie Pogue Johnson addresses Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author.
• The poem praises Dunbar's work, saying he has told stories of joy and mirth, and has read the hearts and souls of men.

Mother's Role

• Mother in the novel The Railway Children was always available to play with and read to her children.
• She also helped them with their homework and wrote stories for them while they were at school.

Notable Figures

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

• Walt Whitman wrote the poem "To You" in 1856, which suggests that readers have not fully understood themselves.### Chambi's Photographs

• Chambi's photographs have considerable ethnographic value, capturing diverse elements of Peruvian society and representing his subjects with dignity and authenticity.

• His work includes commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, as well as hundreds of images documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.

Indigenous Actors and Filmmakers

• Researchers have turned their attention to the early days of cinema, particularly the 1910s and 1920s, when people like James Young Deer, Dark Cloud, Edwin Carewe, and Lillian St.Cyr (Red Wing) were involved in numerous films.
• The credited film output of these individuals includes James Young Deer (33 films as actor, 35 as director, 10 as writer), Dark Cloud (35 films as actor, 1 as writer), Edwin Carewe (47 films as actor, 58 as director, 20 as producer, 4 as writer), and Lillian St.Cyr (66 films as actor).

Juvenile Plants

• Researchers Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Isabelle Storer, and Rocío Perez-Barrales examined plots within a diverse plant community in southeast Spain and found that if individual plants were randomly distributed, only about 15% would be with other plants in patches of vegetation.
• The researchers counted the number of juvenile plants of five species growing in patches of vegetation and the number growing alone on bare ground, and compared those numbers to what would be expected if the plants were randomly distributed.
• The results show that 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.

Barbacenia Plants

• Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha, two plants in the Velloziaceae family, can establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock in the mountains of Brazil.
• The roots of these plants have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip, which 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 such massive sizes to increased plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era.
• However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution.