SAT Prep

If it is improperly introduced into the environment, acid-whey runoff can pollute waterways, depleting the oxygen content of streams and rivers as it decomposes.

• NO CHANGE

• can pollute waterway s,

• could have polluted waterways,

• has polluted waterway’s,

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CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Circadian rhythms, which are controlled by the bodies biological clocks, influence body temperature, hormone release, cycles of sleep and wakefulness, and other bodily function. Disruptions of circadian rhythms

• NO CHANGE

• bodies’ biological clocks’,

• body’s biological clocks,

• body’s biological clock’s,

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CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.3

In the initial stages of learning a new language we learn more through listening and attempting to copy speech patterns and not through reading grammar books.

• and attempting to copy speech patterns and not through reading grammar books.

• and attempting to copy speech patterns than through reading grammar books.

• and attempts to copy speech patterns than through reading grammar books.

• and attempts at copying speech patterns than through reading grammar books.

• and attempts at copying speech patterns and not grammar books.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3

Which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?

But now that the family encyclopedia is likely to have been replaced by a CD-ROM it is possible that the book might be reduced to an item of decoration rather than information and entertainment.

• might be reduced to an item of decoration rather than information

• might be reduced to an item of decoration rather than a source of information

• will be reduced to an item of decoration rather than information

• will be reduced to an item of decoration rather than a source of information

• could be reduced to an item of decoration rather than information

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Sometimes, on such occasions, the thought has suddenly occurred to me—’If they could see me now!’ meaning, of course, my friends at home; and the idea of how they would pity me has made me pity myself—so greatly that I have had the utmost difficulty to restrain my tears: but I have restrained them, till my little tormentors were gone to dessert, or cleared off to bed (my only prospects of deliverance), and then, in all the bliss of solitude, I have given myself up to the luxury of an unrestricted burst of weeping. But this was a weakness I did not often indulge: my employments were too numerous, my leisure moments too precious, to admit of much time being given to fruitless lamentations.

As used in the highlighted sentence, “admit of” most nearly means

• necessitate

• want

• tolerate

• forbid

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4

But they suggest that the presence of otters provides a good model of how carbon can be sequestered, or removed; from the atmosphere through the management of animal populations.

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• or removed from

• or, removed from,

• or removed, from

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CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

Westbrook High’s football team is undefeated and, therefore, is a much better team than Glendale High.

• is a much better team than Glendale High

• is a much better team than the football team that is Glendale High’s

• is a much better team than Glendale High’s football team

• is a much better team than the one that is at Glendale High

• they are a much better team than Glendale High

Between you and I, I doubt that he will come.

• and I, I doubt that he will come.

• and I, I doubt that he would come.

• and me, I doubt that he will come.

• and me, I doubt that he would come.

• and me, I doubt whether he will be coming.

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CCSS.L.11-12.1

The researchers used Chicago HiRise assembly technology to up the quality of Willy’s genome sequence. “This new assembly allowed us to identify fine chromosomal rearrangements between the horse and the donkey that likely played an active role in their divergence and, ultimately, speciation,” they write.

As used in the highlighted line, “fine” most nearly means

• small-scale

• of good quality

• ornamental

• ostentatious

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Which is the best version of the underlined part of the last sentence (reproduced below)?

More books are being written and published than ever before; the book has withstood the advent of the cinema, television, and personal computer and are likely to be there in centuries to come.

• the book has withstood the advent of the cinema, television, personal computer and are likely

• the book has withstood the advent of the cinema, television, and personal computer and are liable

• books have withstood the advent of the cinema, television, and personal computer and are likely

• the book withstood the advent of the cinema, television, personal computer and is likely

• the book withstood the advent of the cinema, television, and personal computer and will likely

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CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2