DSAT SENTENCE BOUNDARIES

Detroit natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey have combined their two passions, Detroit and beekeeping, to improve the health of their city’s flowers and other vegetation. In 2017, the couple converted a vacant lot in the city into an ______ in the years that followed they acquired nine additional lots and established more than 35 hives.

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

• apiary

• apiary,

• apiary and

• apiary, and

It is tempting to glamorize the hunt for dinosaur ______ majority of fieldwork is characterized by a daily routine of heat, insects, and tedious labor.

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

• fossils, the

• fossils the

• fossils but the

• fossils, but the

Though Paul Revere is best known today for his "midnight ride" during the American _____ was famous in his own day as a prosperous silversmith and businessman.

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

• Revolution; he

• Revolution, but Revere

• Revolution, he

• Revolution he

Luci Tapahonso is the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. Her book Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing—a combination of fiction and memoir, poetry and ______ serves as a testament to her versatility as a writer.

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

• prose—

• prose

• prose,

• prose;

The sandhill ______ to North America, has the longest fossil history of any extant bird at ten million years.

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

• crane a large bird native

• crane—a large bird native

• crane, a large bird native,

• crane, a large bird native

Saint Lucia—a sovereign island in the ______ the only country in the world named after a historical woman.

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

• Caribbean, is

• Caribbean—is

• Caribbean is

• Caribbean; is

According to Naomi Nakayama of the University of Edinburgh, the reason seeds from a dying dandelion appear to float in the air while ______ is that their porous plumes enhance drag, allowing the seeds to stay airborne long enough for the wind to disperse them throughout the surrounding area.

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

• falling,

• falling:

• falling;

• falling

An element's atomic number is ______ the number of protons in its nucleus, the number electrons in its uncharged state, and approximately half of its atomic mass.

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

• equal to:

• equal to;

• equal to,

• equal to

When he returned from the Galapagos islands in 1835, Charles Darwin brought back a young tortoise named ______ would live over 170 years before passing away at the Australia Zoo in 2006.

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

• Harriet, she

• Harriet; who

• Harriet she

• Harriet; she

While one requires oxygen and one does ______ and anaerobic respiration are both forms of cellular respiration—that is, they are processes by which cells break down glucose to use as energy.

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

• not. Aerobic

• not; aerobic

• not aerobic

• not, aerobic