SAT Practice Honors 11/4

Since the film requires long exposures, moving subjects blur. A shifting arm or leg might even disappear because of the lengthy exposure time required. The exposure time required explains why people in wet plate photographs often look dour...

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• An arm or a leg, shifting during the long exposure time required by wet plate photography, might even disappear.

• A wet plate photographer’s subject’s arm or leg might even disappear during this long exposure time.

• A shifting arm or leg might even disappear.

Prominent among contemporary wet plate photographers is Joni Sternbach, whose work centers, appropriately, on water and people’s relationship to it. Sternbach’s photo series Ocean Details, Sea/Sky, and SurfLand depict surging surfs, roiling waves, and the surfers who ride them. Her subjects could be nineteenth-century wave riders, if not for the modern board shorts and bikinis they wear.

The writer wants to highlight the contrast between Sternbach’s techniques and the people Sternbach photographs. Which choice most effectively accomplishes this goal?

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• The subjects of her photos could be ordinary people,

• It would be hard to tell her subjects are surfers,

• They would appear to come from all walks of life,

Digging Up Cities

In 2010, as a construction crew began to tear up sidewalks in New York City’s South Street Seaport to replace a water pipe, Alyssa Loorya and her team watched eagerly, picks and brushes in hand. Loorya, an urban archaeologist, studies the history of cities. Any New York City construction project using municipal funds are required to consider whether historical artifacts will be affected during construction, and if that possibility exists or is possible, an urban archaeologist must be consulted.

The writer is considering revising the underlined portion to the following.

cities by excavating artifacts that have accumulated over centuries of land development.

Should the writer make this revision here?

• Yes, because it helps set up the rest of the passage by explaining what urban archaeologists do.

• Yes, because it identifies the characteristics that make particular cities worthy of archaeological study

• No, because it does not give enough detail about the kinds of artifacts that urban archaeologists typically find.

• No, because it does not explain how excavation benefits the study of a city’s history.