SAT Reading Comprehension Quiz

To develop a method for measuring snow depth with laser beams, NASA physicist Yongxiang Hu relied on ______; identifying

broad similarities between two seemingly different phenomena, Hu used information about how ants move inside colonies

to calculate how the particles of light that make up laser beams travel through snow.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• a collaboration

• an accessory

• a contradiction

• an analogy

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What does the phrase “soft kind of rock” in the text suggest about Mr. Verloc’s character?

• He is physically strong but emotionally sensitive.

• He is steady and reliable but has a gentle side.

• He is tough and unyielding in all aspects.

• He is outwardly strong but inwardly weak.

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The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1837 story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment.” The main character, a physician, is experimenting with rehydrating a dried flower.

At first [the rose] lay lightly on the surface of the fluid, appearing to imbibe none of its moisture. Soon, however, a

singular change began to be visible. The crushed and dried petals stirred and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson,

as if the flower were reviving from a deathlike slumber.

As used in the text, what does the phrase “a singular” most nearly mean?

• lonely

• A disagreeable

• An acceptable

• An extraordinary

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Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing,

she did not view the genre as ______: Butler broke into the field with the publication of several short stories and her 1976

novel Patternmaster, and she later became the first science fiction writer to win a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• legitimate

• impenetrable

• compelling

• indecipherable

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What is the subject of these paintings created by Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence?

• Red Summer of 1919

• Integration of public schools

• Great Migration

• Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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