SAT Practice Test 6 Module 2_15-22

To test whether a medication is effective, scientists compare outcomes

for patients taking it and patients taking a placebo (a medically inactive

substance). Patients normally aren’t told they’re receiving a placebo,

but a research team conducted a study to see if there might be a medical

benefit to telling them. The team used various measures to evaluate

participants, with higher ratings indicating greater well-being in each

measure. Compared to the mean ratings after 21 days for participants

in the control group, the mean ratings for participants who were aware

of taking a placebo _______

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

• ranged from 5.0 to 92.00, indicating that well-being varied widely from participant to participant.

• were lower for two measures, with the rating for only one measure indicating greater well-being for these participants.

• ranged from 3.9 to 46.00, with no rating indicating greater well-being in any measure for these participants.

• were higher for all three measures, indicating greater overall well-being for these participants.

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As media consumption has become increasingly

multiplatform and socially mediated, active news

acquisition has diminished in favor of an attitude

known as “news finds me” (NFM), in which people

passively rely on their social networks and ambient

media environments for information about current

events. Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Trevor Diehl

examined data on a representative group of adults in

the United States to determine participants’ strength

of NFM attitude, political knowledge, and political

interest. Although no major election took place

sufficiently near the study for Gil de Zúñiga and

Diehl to identify causality between NFM and voting

behavior, they did posit that NFM may reduce voting

probability through an indirect effect.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support

the idea advanced by Gil de Zúñiga and Diehl?

• NFM attitude tends to increase in strength as major elections approach, and people are significantly more likely to vote in major elections than in minor elections.

• NFM attitude has a strong negative effect on political knowledge and interest, and there is known to be a strong positive correlation between political knowledge and interest and the likelihood of voting.

• Political interest is known to have a strong positive effect on likelihood of voting but shows only a weak positive effect on political knowledge, and NFM attitude shows little correlation with either political knowledge or political interest.

• The likelihood of voting increases as political knowledge increases, and the relationship between NFM attitude and political knowledge tends to strengthen as the size of people’s social networks increases.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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The practice of logging (cutting down trees for

commercial and other uses) is often thought to be

at odds with forest conservation (the work of

preserving forests). However, a massive study in

forest management and preservation spanning

700,000 hectares in Oregon’s Malheur National

Forest calls that view into question. So far, results

of the study suggest that forest plots that have

undergone limited logging (the careful removal of a

controlled number of trees) may be more robust than

plots that haven’t been logged at all. These results, in

turn, suggest that _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• logging may be useful for maintaining healthy forests, provided it is limited.

• other forest management strategies are more effective than limited logging.

• as time passes, it will be difficult to know whether limited logging has any benefits.

• the best way to support forest health may be to leave large forests entirely untouched.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Even with the widespread adoption of personal computers, many authors still choose to write and revise their novels by hand and only then transcribe the final version on a computer. It may be tempting to speculate about how a novel written this way would be affected if it had been exclusively typed instead, but each novel is a unique entity resulting from a specific set of circumstances. Therefore, _______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• in order to increase their efficiency, authors who currently write their novels largely by hand should instead work only on a computer.

• authors who do most of their drafting and revising by hand likely have more success than those who work entirely on a computer.

• novels written by hand take less time to produce, on average, than novels written on a computer do.

• there is no way to reasonably evaluate how a work would be different if it had been written by other means.

In forecasting weather events, meteorologists sometimes discuss the role of atmospheric rivers. What are atmospheric rivers, and how _______ Part of the water cycle, atmospheric rivers are narrow channels of moisture moving through the atmosphere. In certain conditions, these “rivers” can release some of their moisture as precipitation.

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

• do they affect our weather.

• they do affect our weather.

• do they affect our weather?

• they do affect our weather?

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One of the few African American global explorers during the turn of the 20th century, _______

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

• Matthew Henson made several treks across Greenland between 1891 and 1909.

• 1891 and 1909 were the years between which Matthew Henson made several treks across Greenland.

• Greenland was where Matthew Henson made several treks between 1891 and 1909.

• several treks across Greenland were made by Matthew Henson between 1891 and 1909.

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Woven from recycled yarn and hand tufted using a carpet weaving technique passed down by the artist’s Turkish grandmother, _______ so lush and tactilely inviting that you are tempted to reach out and touch them.

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

• the topological tapestries of Argentine textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou are

• the Argentine textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou creates topological tapestries that are

• when she creates her topological tapestries, Argentine textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou makes them

• Alexandra Kehayoglou is an Argentine textile artist whose topological tapestries are

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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CCSS.RI.6.5

Physical materials can be classified by how much light passes through them. Clear glass, which is classified as transparent, allows all (or almost all) light to pass ________ wax paper, which is classified as translucent, allows only some light to pass through.

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

• through,

• through

• through;

• through and

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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