SAT Practice Test 4 - Reading and Writing Module 1

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx successfully ______ a sample from the asteroid Bennu despite encountering an unexpectedly boulder-filled surface.

Planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic's research suggests the Moon's surface may not accurately ______ early asteroid impact events due to its softer, formative state.

In animals, handedness is less ______ than in humans; therefore, animal-behavior researchers employ specialized tasks to determine individual animal preferences for a certain hand or paw.

While Ali Banisadr cites Hieronymus Bosch as an inspiration, some scholars suggest the ancient Mesopotamian poem Epic of Gilgamesh may have had a far greater, but by no means ______, influence on Banisadr's work.

What is the main focus of the excerpt from Susan Glaspell's short story 'Out There,' featuring an elderly shop owner and a new picture?

Which statement accurately describes the structure of Angelina Weld Grimké's poem 'Black Finger'?

What is the overall structure of Walt Whitman's poem 'Calamus 24'?

What is the function of the third sentence in the context of the overall structure of the text?

How would Graeber and Wengrow (Text 2) most likely respond to the 'conventional wisdom' presented in Text 1?

Which choice best conveys the narrator's perspective on Mary's feelings from "The Secret Garden"?

Based on the text, in what way is the human mind like a flower?

Which of the following statements best summarizes the main point of the excerpt from Jack London's The Call of the Wild?

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the text?

Which of the following, if true, would provide the most direct support to the hypothesis proposed by Valentina Gómez-Bahamón and her team?

Which choice best completes the example to align with the data in the passage?

Which quotation from the interviews best exemplifies the journalist's claim about challenges in art collectives?

Which choice most effectively utilizes the data from the table to complete the statement?

Given the information, which choice most logically concludes the text about artwork at Pompeii and Venus?

Based on the text, which of the following choices completes the text so that it adheres to standard English conventions?

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

Wilma Rudolph demonstrated great tenacity in that she _____ to win three gold medals.

Which one of the following choices completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Which is the correct choice that completes the text to conform with appropriate English grammar?

What transitional word best fits this sentence: He teamed with Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, and they resubmitted the bill every session for the next fifteen years. ______, in 1983, the bill passed.

Which of the following creates flow in the text: The child of a West African father and an English mother, Coleridge-Taylor emphasized his mixed-race ancestry. For example, he referred to himself as Anglo-African. ______ he incorporated the sounds of traditional African music into his classical music compositions.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition? The researchers, knowing that dishes were sometimes named after their intended effects, theorized that the dish's name, 'unwinding,' referred to its function: to help ancient diners relax. ______ , the researcher Patricia Jurado Gonzalez and food historian Nawal Nasrallah prepared a stew from a 4,000-year-old recipe found on a Mesopotamian clay tablet.

What information most effectively communicates "Unwoven Light" into the text?

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal? Tan photographed Angkor Wat's plaster walls ____

The fashion resale market's ______ growth meant that revenues would double in 2028.

The scientists believed they could ______ past biomolecule problems by transmitting them through carbon nanotubes.

Particle physicists like Ayana Holloway Arce and Aida El-Khadra spend much of their time ______ what is invisible to the naked eye: using sophisticated technology, they closely examine the behavior of subatomic particles, the smallest detectable parts of matter.

In Samuel R. Delany's 1966 novel Babel-17, the occupation is ______, so nearly a dozen of the people are characterized as poets or fiction writers.

For the 2020 exhibition, photographer and neurobiologist Okunola Jeyifous ______ a series of new images based on a series of alphabet posters from the 1970s known as the 'Black ABCs,' which featured Black children from Chicago.

Francis Cecil Sumner was a ______ of increasing the opportunity for Black students to study psychology, helping to found the psychology department at Howard University, a historically Black university, in 1930.

Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Hugh Capet or Henry I was historically consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory was shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore cannot be understood without a corollary understanding of the factors that allowed the monarch to ______ his right to hold the throne.

Instead, adult females lay their eggs in other nests, ______ to another bird species' own eggs.

They watched how each cat moved its ears and head, to determine ______.?

Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the student's hypothesis? The choy sum planted in the soil ______

“The Young Girl” is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. Which quotation from "The Young Girl" most effectively ______ the claim?

High levels of public uncertainty about which economic policies a country will adopt can make planning difficult for businesses, but measures of such uncertainty have not tended to be very detailed. ______ of her work is that a general measure may not fully reflect uncertainty about specific areas of policy, as in the case of the United Kingdom, where general economic policy uncertainty.

Which finding from would most strongly support Tannen's hypothesis, On average, participants perceived _____.

What would support, King Lear is a circa 1606 play by William Shakespeare. In the play, the character of King Lear attempts to test his three daughters' devotion to him. He later expresses regret for his actions, as is evident when he ______