SAT Bellwork #10

In the 1950s, novel audio technologies allowed the addition of another instrument to jazz and swing _____ relatively quiet instrument, its full range of sound was finally audible alongside the blaring brass instruments of the time, allowing flautists like Bennie Maupin and Bobbi Humphrey to perform with other jazz greats. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. music, the flute, a

• B. music. The flute, a

• C. music; the flute, a

• D. music: the flute. A

On March 23, 2021, a gust of wind wreaked havoc on global trade. Ever Given, an international shipping container vessel, became lodged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, a major shipping route between Europe and Asia. The vessel took six days to ___ it’s as heavy as two thousand blue whales when fully loaded. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• dislodge in part due to its sheer size,

• dislodge, in part due to its sheer size:

• dislodge, in part due to its sheer size,

• dislodge, in part, due to its sheer size

In the 1970s, Janaki Ammal, a prominent botanist, emerged as a powerful voice in India’s environmental conservation movement. Her exhaustive chromosomal survey of plants in Silent Valley, a pristine tropical forest in Kerala, India, that is home to nearly 1,000 species of native flora (many of which are endangered), _____ instrumental in the government’s decision to preserve the forest. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• are

• were

• have been

• was

Technologies such as microphones and inkjet printers are made using piezoelectric materials, which generate an internal electric field when pressure is applied to them. The toxic nature of some of these materials recently led a team from the University of Sheffield to investigate how ___ Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• could their use be better regulated?

• their use could be better regulated.
• their use could be better regulated?

• could their use be better regulated.

In addition to advocating for South America’s independence in two political treatises, the Cartagena Manifesto and the Letter from Jamaica, Simón Bolívar personally led armies against the Spanish, liberating three South American territories—New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Quito (present-day _____ from colonial rule. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. Ecuador,)

• B. Ecuador)

• C. Ecuador),

• D. Ecuador)—