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Question ID 333b2b65 1.1 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 333b2b65 While one requires oxygen and one does ______ and anaerobic respiration are both forms of cellular respiration— that is, they are processes by which cells break down glucose to use as energy. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. not aerobic B. not. Aerobic C. not, aerobic D. not; aerobic Question ID 148be4da 1.2 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 148be4da Human-made (synthetic) fibers used in clothes and many other consumer products are more durable than most natural plant ______ the manufacture of synthetic fibers requires toxic chemical solvents that can pollute air and water. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. fibers, B. fibers but C. fibers D. fibers, but Question ID 6fece68e 1.3 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 6fece68e Emperor Ashoka ruled the Maurya Empire in South Asia from roughly 270 to 232 BCE. He is known for enforcing a moral code called the Law of Piety, which established the sanctity of animal ______ the just treatment of the elderly, and the abolition of the slave trade. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. life B. life; C. life: D. life, Question ID 1724dac2 1.4 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 1724dac2 A subseasonal weather forecast attempts to predict weather conditions three to four weeks in ______ its predictions are therefore more short-term than those of the seasonal forecast, which attempts to predict the weather more than a month in advance. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. advance, B. advance C. advance; D. advance and Question ID a1e0c981 1.5 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: a1e0c981 In her book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, author Maxine Hong Kingston examines themes ______ childhood, womanhood, and Chinese American identity by intertwining autobiography and mythology. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. of: B. of C. of— D. of, Question ID b35cefb7 1.6 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: b35cefb7 The fine, powdery substance that covers the Moon’s surface is called regolith. Because regolith is both readily available and high in oxygen ______ scientists have wondered whether it could be used as a potential source of oxygen for future lunar settlements. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. content and B. content, C. content D. content, and Question ID aab78b25 1.7 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: aab78b25 Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz was hired by a soda company to determine how much artificial sweetener ______ After conducting consumer taste tests, he found that no such ideal existed: participants expressed a wide range of preferences for different blends of sweetener, carbonization, and flavoring. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. do most people prefer in a diet drink? B. do most people prefer in a diet drink. C. most people prefer in a diet drink? D. most people prefer in a diet drink. Question ID 26c8c88c 1.8 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 26c8c88c About 70,000 meteorites have been found on Earth. Although most meteorites are fragments of ______ hundred have been identified as being from the Moon or Mars. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. asteroids. Several B. asteroids, several C. asteroids; several D. asteroids: several Question ID 89ab0d46 1.9 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 89ab0d46 After the printing press was introduced in 1440, handwritten manuscripts from Europe’s medieval period were often destroyed and the paper used for other purposes. In one instance, pages ______ a collection of Norse tales dating to 1270 were discovered lining a bishop’s miter (hat). Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. from: B. from, C. from D. from— Question ID ea8f4658 1.10 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: ea8f4658 When particles are suspended in liquid (like pollen in a water glass), they will zigzag randomly through the liquid and collide with one another in perpetuity. This type of random, continuous ______ is known as Brownian motion, can be observed throughout the natural world. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. movement: which B. movement, which C. movement which D. movement. Which Question ID c21df211 1.11 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: c21df211 In 1959, the film industry debuted Smell-O-Vision. Theaters were fitted with specialized vents that emitted odors at specific points in a ______ as the scent of roses when roses appeared in a scene. Smell-O-Vision failed to impress, however, with one reviewer declaring it “briefly weird and not very interesting.” Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. movie such B. movie; such C. movie. Such D. movie, such Question ID 577b09fa 1.12 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 577b09fa Robin Wall Kimmerer of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a bryologist, a plant scientist who specializes in mosses. To Kimmerer, mosses are Earth’s most adaptable plants: they can clone ______ enter a dormant state in times of drought, and grow in areas that don’t have soil. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. themselves; B. themselves, C. themselves. And D. themselves Question ID a466679a 1.13 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: a466679a In 1976, the Inuit rock group Sikumiut recorded the album People of the Ice. Though only their first record, it shows a band already skilled at the difficult task of making music that sounds easy and fun. On songs like “Utirumavunga,” Lucassie Koperqualuk’s guitar riffs effortlessly ______ Charlie Adams’s delightfully catchy vocal melodies. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. blend, with B. blend. With C. blend; with D. blend with Question ID 7b950fc2 1.14 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 7b950fc2 In 2000, Nora de Hoyos Comstock, herself an owner of a successful consulting firm, sought to increase Latina representation in corporate ______ founded Las Comadres para las Americas, an international community that for over two decades has served as a resource and information network for Latina business professionals. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. settings she B. settings, she C. settings and she D. settings. She Question ID 96499989 1.15 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 96499989 Fans of science fiction will ______ multiple references to classic sci-fi stories in Janelle Monáe’s song lyrics, including her recurring nods to the plot of the 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. appreciate the B. appreciate. The C. appreciate, the D. appreciate: the Question ID b1e8b87f 1.16 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: b1e8b87f Winding through the ice atop Norway’s Jotunheim Mountains is the Lendbreen pass, an ancient route that was used by hunters, farmers, traders, and travelers in the Middle Ages before eventually falling into disuse. Recently, archeologists have ______ knives, horseshoes, wool tunics, and thousands of other artifacts from the icy pass. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. unearthed: B. unearthed, C. unearthed— D. unearthed Question ID 603755a5 1.17 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 603755a5 In 1959, marine biologist Dr. Albert Jones founded the Underwater Adventure Seekers, a scuba diving ______ that is the oldest club for Black divers in the United States and that has helped thousands of diving enthusiasts become certified in the field. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. club B. club, C. club— D. club, and Question ID 1f39ab8b 1.18 Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Conventions ID: 1f39ab8b In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a leader of Umuofia (a fictional Nigerian clan) and takes pride in his culture’s traditions. However, when the arrival of European missionaries brings changes to Umuofia, the novel asks a central question: How ______ Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A. Umuofia’s traditions will be affected. B. will Umuofia’s traditions be affected. C. Umuofia’s traditions will be affected? D. will Umuofia’s traditions be affected?