SAT #17

While exploring Nevada’s Gypsum Cave in 1930, Seneca and Abenaki archaeologist Bertha Parker made her most famous discovery: the skull of a now-extinct ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis) alongside human-made tools. Parker’s crucial finding was the first _____ humans in North America as far back as 10,000 years ago. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• places

• placed

• place

• to place

Po’Pay was a Tewa leader from Ohkay Owingeh, a pueblo located about twenty-five miles north of present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was instrumental in organizing the Pueblo Revolt of _____ as a result of his leadership, the Spanish colonizers were expelled from the region for a time. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• 1680

• 1680 and

• 1680,

• 1680, and

The short story “Rogue Enchantments” by Isabel Ibañez appears in Reclaim the ______ anthology of fantasy and science fiction written by authors of Latin American descent. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. Stars. An

• B. Stars, while an

• C. Stars an

• D. Stars, an

Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz was hired by a soda company to determine how much artificial sweetener _____ After conducting consumer taste tests, he found that no such ideal existed: participants expressed a wide range of preferences for different blends of sweetener, carbonization, and flavoring. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• do most people prefer in a diet drink?

• do most people prefer in a diet drink.

• most people prefer in a diet drink?

• most people prefer in a diet drink.

Many Samoans enjoy a sport called kilikiti. This bat-and-ball game was derived from _____ kilikiti differs from cricket in a few key ways. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. cricket but:

• B. cricket but,

• C. cricket, but

• D. cricket, but,