SAT #19

In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sister-in-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company’s product, a nontoxic, clay-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper, as a modeling putty for kids. In addition, Zufall _____ selling the product under a child-friendly name: Play-Doh. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• suggested

• suggests

• had suggested

• was suggesting

On sunny days, dark rooftops absorb solar energy and convert it to unwanted heat, raising the surrounding air ______ a light-colored covering to an existing dark roof, either by attaching prefabricated reflective sheets or spraying on a paint-like coating, helps combat this effect. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. temperature; by adding

• B. temperature, adding

• C. temperature. Adding

• D. temperature by adding

Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book’s _____ when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• value, but

• value

• value,

• value but

When they were first discovered in Australia in 1798, duck-billed, beaver-tailed platypuses so defied categorization that one scientist assigned them the name Ornithorhynchus paradoxus: “paradoxical bird-snout.” The animal, which lays eggs but also nurses _____ young with milk, has since been classified as belonging to the monotremes group. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. they're

• B. their

• C. its

• D. it's

Butterfly is a 1988 painting by the Japanese artist Ay-O. Like many of Ay-O's paintings, Butterfly, which portrays a swimmer performing the butterfly stroke, attempts to make use of the entire visual light _____ sporting rainbow-striped goggles, the rainbow-hued swimmer splashes through a wavy rainbow of water. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. spectrum

• B. spectrum:

• C. spectrum while

• D. spectrum, while