Final Test SAT Reasoning ( Gr 1(LVL 1))

1. The following text is from the 1913 story “The King’s Coin” by Emily Pauline Johnson, a Kanienkahagen (Mohawk) writer also known as Tekahionwake. Fox-Foot, a young Ojibwe man, is guiding a group of fur traders who are traveling by canoe and suspects that they are being followed. At supper time, Fox-Foot would allow no fire to be built, no landing to be made, no trace of their passing to be left. They ate canned meat and marmalade, drank again of the stream and pushed on, until just at dusk they reached the edge of a long, still lake, with shores of granite and dense fir forest.

As used in the text, what does the word “trace” most nearly mean?

• A) Evidence

• B) Blemish

• C) Amount

• D) Sketch

2. Many ancient sculptures of people’s heads are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most _______ part of a sculpture of a person’s head. It is delicate and sticks out from the rest of the sculpture, making it especially easy to break.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• A) recognizable

• B) fragile

• C) common

• D) sophisticated  

3. Lê Lươ ng Minh became the thirteenth secretary-general of

the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January 2013, making _______ the first time the organization would appoint a Vietnamese leader. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms

to the conventions of Standard English?

• these

• B) those

• C) this

• D) some

4. In 1929, Edwin Herbert Land invented a polarizing filter that was featured in a number of products, from sunglasses to 3D movies. A decade later, Land _______ his technology to invent the world’s first instant camera, the Polaroid Land camera.

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

• A) used

• B) to have used

• C) to use

• D) using

5. Historians agree that the jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton was exaggerating when he claimed to have invented jazz music. No one can deny, _______ that Morton’s innovative compositions and remarkable improvisational skills helped shape jazz as a genre during its early years.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• A) therefore,

• B) in the second place,

• C) in other words,

• D) though,

• A) (6, 3)

• B) (3, 6)

• C) (3, 27)

• D) (27, 3)

7.  If 4x − 28 = −24, what is the value of x − 7?

• A) −24

• B) −22

• C) −6

• D) −1

8.  For a snowstorm in a certain town, the minimum rate of snowfall recorded was 0.6 inches per hour, and the maximum rate of snowfall recorded was 1.8 inches per hour. Which inequality is true for all values of s, where s represents a rate of snowfall, in inches per hour, recorded for this snowstorm?

• A) s ≥ 2.4

• B) s ≥ 1.8

• C) 0 ≤ s ≤ 0.6

• D) 0.6 ≤ s ≤ 1.8

9. Line r in the xy-plane has a slope of 4 and passes through the point

(0, 6). Which equation defines line r?

• A) y = −6x + 4

• B) y = 6x + 4

• C) y = 4x – 6

• D) y = 4x + 6

10. A veterinarian recommends that each day a certain rabbit should eat 25 calories per pound of the rabbit’s weight, plus an additional 11 calories. Which equation represents this situation, where c is the total number of calories the veterinarian recommends the rabbit should eat each day if the rabbit’s weight is x pounds?

• A) c = 25x

• B) c = 36x

• C) c = 11x + 25

• D) c = 25x + 11