SAT #11

In a 2016 study, Eastern Washington University psychologist Amani El-Alayli found that, among the study participants who experienced frisson (a physiological response akin to goosebumps or getting the chills) while listening to music, there was one personality trait that they scored particularly _______ openness to experience.

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

• high. On

• high on;

• high on

• high on:

Obsidian is a kind of volcanic glass formed when lava cools so quickly that the atoms inside it cannot arrange themselves in a crystalline structure. You _____ more about obsidian’s structure, which is classified as amorphous, in a later chapter. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• had learned

• had been learning

• will learn

• have learned

The artistic talents of Barbara Chase-Riboud, most known for her 1979 historical novel Sally Hemings and the conversation it inspired, _____ limited to the realm of prose: she first excelled in sculpture, where her affinity for bronze—a material she described as “timeless” due to its use across eras and cultures—became part of her artistic identity. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• hasn’t been

• wasn’t

• isn’t

• aren’t

Emperor Ashoka ruled the Maurya Empire in South Asia from roughly 270 to 232 BCE. He is known for enforcing a moral code called the Law of Piety, which established the sanctity of animal ______ the just treatment of the elderly, and the abolition of the slave trade.

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

• life

• life;

• life:

• life,

On July 23, 1854, a clipper ship called the Flying Cloud entered San Francisco ______ left New York Harbor under the guidance of Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy and his wife, navigator Eleanor Creesy, a mere 89 days and 8 hours earlier, the celebrated ship set a record that would stand for 135 years. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• Bay and having
• Bay. Having

• Bay, having

• Bay having