PSAT Practice Test #2 (23-33)

#23

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

• have been powering

• power

• powers

• are powering

#24

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

• spectrum

• spectrum:

• spectrum while

• spectrum, while

#25

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

• functions

• functions,

• functions and,

• functions:

#26

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• Ultimately,

• In other words,

• Secondly,

• In addition,

#27

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• Lastly,

• Then,

• Similarly,

• For example,

#28

As carbon levels increase, the audio is correspondingly distorted; ________ listeners can “hear” the changes in the carbon levels. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• furthermore,

• by comparison,

• for instance,

• thus,

#29

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• In other words,

• For this reason,

• Alternatively,

• Nevertheless,

#30

The student wants to emphasize how many islands in Komodo National Park have Komodo dragons living on them. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards, live on islands in Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

• The largest lizards in the world are found in Komodo National Park.

• Only four of the twenty-nine islands in Komodo National Park have Komodo dragons living on them.

• There are twenty-nine islands in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park.

#31

The student wants to provide a quotation from Acquah that explains why she used pointillism in “Exquisite.” Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• In painting “Exquisite,” Acquah applied pointillism to create what she called an “illusion of movement” within the painting’s five dancing women and their twirling skirts.

• Pointillism, the technique used in Acquah’s “Exquisite,” involves the application of small, distinct dots of color.

• In “Exquisite,” Acquah uses a technique that she says involves “extending dabs of color in the subject matter into the background and vice-versa.”

• “Exquisite” portrays Acquah’s fellow Ghanaian women as she sees them: the “unsung heroes of the Ghanaian Republic.”

#32

The student wants to emphasize whose point of view the novel is told from. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• From the point of view of The Ramayana, the character Kaikeyi is often a villain.

• Vaishnavi Patel often portrays the character as heroic.

• Kaikeyi is a retelling of The Ramayana from the character Kaikeyi’s point of view.

• The Ramayana is an epic poem that features the character Kaikeyi.