SAT Practice

Select the correct sentence.

• The dinosaur fossils found at Wyoming's Como Bluff in 1877 weren't the first remains discovered in the U.S. but they were remarkable enough to spark a national fascination with Dinosaurs.

• The dinosaur fossils found at Wyoming's Como Bluff in 1877 weren't the first remains discovered in the U.S., but they were remarkable enough to spark a national fascination with Dinosaurs.

• The dinosaur fossils, found at Wyoming's Como Bluff in 1877, weren't the first remains discovered in the U.S. but they were remarkable enough to spark a national fascination with Dinosaurs.

• The dinosaur fossils found at Wyoming's Como Bluff in 1877 weren't the first remains discovered in the U.S. but, they were remarkable enough to spark a national fascination with Dinosaurs.

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• No change

• in addition.

• likewise.

• Delete the underlined portion, and ends a sentence with a period.

While ___ for service, patrons can enjoy coffee and snacks and mingle with their neighbors in need.

• they await

• awaiting

• they waited

• waiting

Her goals were ___ reduce waste, maintain and perpetuate knowledge and skills, and strengthen community.

• straightforward, however:

• straightforward:

• straightforward, nonetheless:

• straightforward, therefore:

More like a fair ___ an actual Cafe, the first repair Cafe took place in Amsterdam oh, the Netherlands.

• then

• than

Where is the most logical place in this paragraph to add the following sentence?

What Wilmers and Estes discovered in their study, therefore, surprise them.

• After sentence one

• After sentence 3

• After sentence 4

• After sentence 5

But they suggest that the presence of otters provided a good model of how carbon can be sequestered, ___ the atmosphere through the management of animal populations.

• or removed; from

• or removed from,

• or, removed from,

• or removed, from

At the point in the paragraph where you see **, the writer is considering adding the following information:

since the start of the Industrial Revolution, resulting in a rise of global temperatures

• Yes, because it establishes the relationship between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global warming.

• Yes, because it explains the key role sea otters, sea urchins, and kelp forests play in combating global warming.

A recent study by two professors at University of California, Santa Cruz, Chris wilmers and James Estes, ___ kelp forest protected by sea otters can absorb as much as twelve times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as those we are sea urchins are allowed to devour the kelp.

• suggest, that

• suggest - that

• suggest, "that

• suggest that

A recent study by two professors at University of California, Santa Cruz, Chris wilmers and James Estes, suggest, that kelp forest protected by sea otters can absorb as much as twelve times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as those we are sea urchins are allowed to ___ the kelp.

• devour

• overindulge on

• disposed of

• dispatch