SAT HADZIQ 2

While light is known as one of the fastest-moving substances, it slows down when passing through some types of matter. One such type of matter is a form of cooled, condensed gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate ______ Dutch physicist Lene Hau famously used a BEC to slow a beam of light to a complete halt. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• (BEC),

• (BEC) and

• (BEC);

• (BEC)

Water in the North Atlantic Ocean is pushed eastward by powerful winds, but the rotation of Earth and interference from nearby landmasses together cause ______ to swirl into a massive, churning whirlpool—also called the North Atlantic Gyre —that spins clockwise. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• these

• those

• them

• it

The soundtrack to Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala expressively captures the clashing of cultures that happens when ______ (a young Indian woman from Uganda and a young African American man from Mississippi) meet. Featured throughout the film are songs from Uganda’s Afrigo Band, the Indian composer L. Subramaniam, and the Mississippi blues musician Sam Chatmon. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• it’s two protagonists

• its two protagonist’s

• it’s two protagonist’s

• its two protagonists

It can take time for proposed amendments to the US Constitution to become law. For example, the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the number of ______ can serve, was first proposed in 1947 but wasn’t approved by the required three-fourths majority of state legislatures until 1951. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• terms presidents

• term’s presidents

• term’s president’s

• terms president’s

Between 322 and 184 BCE, the Maurya Empire established a complex economic system that, through trade and centralized ______ funded major infrastructure projects throughout the Indian subcontinent. This included the building of many roads, canals, and hospitals. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• taxation:

• taxation,

• taxation—

• taxation

As British scientist Peter Whibberley has observed, “the Earth is not a very good timekeeper.” Earth’s slightly irregular rotation rate means that measurements of time must be periodically adjusted. Specifically, an extra “leap second” (the 86,401st second of the day) is ______ time based on the planet’s rotation lags a full nine-tenths of a second behind time kept by precise atomic clocks. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• added, whenever

• added; whenever

• added. Whenever

• added whenever

Julia Alvarez’s 1994 novel In the Time of the Butterflies, a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal ______ can serve as a starting point for those wanting to explore how the rule of dictator Rafael Trujillo has been represented in Dominican American literature. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• sisters, and

• sisters and

• sisters,

• sisters

Solarpunk is an art movement that imagines renewable energy–powered technology infused complementarily into nature. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s solarpunk short story “Efficiency,” an artificial intelligence that absorbs sustainable energies, redistributing them through intricate networks of weights and generators, ______ Chicago’s energy grid. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• have been powering

• power

• powers

• are powering

Classical composer Florence Price’s 1927 move to Chicago marked a turning point in her career. It was there that Price premiered her First Symphony—a piece that was praised for blending traditional Romantic motifs with aspects of Black folk music—and ______ supportive relationships with other Black artists. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• developing

• developed

• to develop

• having developed

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