SAT RAIHAN 2-Craft n Structures

The following text is from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi. The narrator’s family owned a zoo when he was a child.

“It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included.”

©2001 by Yann Martel

As used in the text, what does the word "spread" most nearly mean?

• Hidden

• Discussed

• Extended

• Coated

According to botanists, a viburnum plant experiencing insect damage may develop perineum—a discoloured, felty growth— on its leaf blades. A ______ viburnum plant, on the other hand, will have leaves with smooth surfaces and uniformly green coloration.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• struggling

• beneficial

• simple

• healthy

Research conducted by planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic suggests that the Moon's surface may not accurately ______ early impact events. When the Moon was still forming, its surface was softer, and asteroid or meteoroid impacts would have left less of an impression; thus, evidence of early impacts may no longer be present.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• reflect

• receive

• evaluate

• mimic

Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1975. During his career he took over 70,000 photographs documenting everyday life in Pittsburgh’s Black communities. The Carnegie Museum of Art maintains thousands of his photographs, carefully ______ them so that audiences can continue to view them well into the future.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• replacing

• inventing

• preserving

• counting

Many ancient sculptures of people’s heads are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most ______ part of a sculpture of a person's head.It is delicate and sticks out from the rest of the sculpture, making it especially easy to break.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• recognizable

• fragile

• common

• sophisticated

In the 1970s, video cameras became increasingly affordable for ordinary consumers and gave Ulysses Jenkins and other artists capabilities that were previously unavailable except to television broadcasters. Jenkins recognized and took full advantage of this ______ access to powerful technology to create groundbreaking works of video art.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• newfound

• delicate

• inevitable

• habitual

A brief book review cannot fully convey the ______ of Olga Tokarczuk's novel The Books of Jacob, with its enormous cast of characters, its complicated, wandering plot, and its page numbers that count backward (beginning at 965 and ending at 1).

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• accuracy

• inactivity

• complexity

• restraint

The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.

“The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp thrill of pleasure. Seductive, charming, and beckoning as cities were, they had not this easy unhuman loveliness.”

As used in the text, what does the word "beckoning" most nearly mean?

• Demanding

• Signalling

• Inviting

• Shifting

Biologist Jane Edgeloe and colleagues have located what is believed to be the largest individual plant in the world in the Shark Bay area of Australia. The plant is a type of seagrass called Posidonia australis, and it ______ approximately 200 square kilometres.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• acknowledges

• produces

• spans

• advances

In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved ______ use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• widespread

• careful

• unintended

• infrequent