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For NEW SAT PRACTICE TEST 2 (Reading Test)
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1. The correct answer is (C) Selden knows Lily, but nothing indicates
they are especially close; acquaintances accurately describes their
relationship. Furthermore, seeing Lily brings Selden surprise (line 1),
so their meeting is unexpected. Thus, answer (C) provides the best
summary of the passage. As they are not close, and their meeting is
unplanned, (A) is incorrect. Nothing indicates Lily is acting suspiciously,
and although Selden is in a train station he is returning home, not
traveling, so (B) is incorrect. Selden and Lily are not romantically
involved, so (D) is incorrect.
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3. The correct answer is (C) Answer (C) describes the reaction Selden
has to Lily, and it specifically characterizes his primary attitude towards
her as one of fascination; it aligns with the topic addressed in the
previous question, and it supports the correct answer. (A) primarily
describes a factual event without giving insight into Seldens attitude
towards Lily, so it is incorrect. (B) captures his confusion at finding Lily
in this particular circumstance, but not his attitude towards her as a
person, so it is incorrect. (D) describes his amusement at one particular
aspect of her, not her generally, so it is incorrect.
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7. The correct answer is (D) The lines in question come after the first
mention of Seldens surprise. They explain that he can think of no reason
for Lily to be there, and conclude by reaffirming that he is perplexed to
see her as she is, all of which support answer (D) The reader does not
know from these lines whether Lily lives in town during other seasons or
not, so (A) is incorrect. Although the lines suggest Lily visits many
houses in Newport, they do not suggest that she owns them, so (B) is
incorrect. Nothing in the lines implies Selden thinks Lily is
untrustworthy, so (C) is incorrect.
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9. The correct answer is (D) The sentence is talking about the fact that
passersby often linger in order to look at Lily longer; this suggests
both ceasing motion and having their interest captured. Of the answer
choices, only (D) conveys both those implications, and replacing arrest
with it in the sentence makes sense. (A), (B), and (C) all have meanings
relating to ceasing motion, but none of them carry the implication of
doing so because of great interest, so they are incorrect.
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10. The correct answer is (D) The lines in question emphasize the
span of time during which Lily has often gone dancing, which is a
recreational activity; as she is in her late twenties, this time would have
been during her youth. This is best summarized by answer choice (D).
The passage does not suggest that Lily dances professionally, so (A) is
incorrect. Although the quote suggests she likes late parties, it does not
comment on whether she likes them better than daytime activities, so (B)
is incorrect. Late hours in this context refers to parties that go well into
the night, not lateness, so (C) is incorrect.
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11. The correct answer is (B) Johnson defines the Great Society many
ways, but when he says most of all to suggest that one in particular is
most important (line 29), he defines it as a challenge constantly
renewed (lines 30-31) and goes on to describe the opportunities the
present generation has for improving themselves and the future. This
idea is captured by answer choice (B). Although Johnson does say the
Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all (lines 14-15), he
does not call for that abundance to be distributed equally, so (A) is
incorrect; it is also too narrow to encompass his vision. Johnson wants
the Great Society to encompass all of society, not just the most powerful
people, so (C) is incorrect. The Great Society is a concept, not a specific
organization, so (D) is incorrect.
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12. The correct answer is (C) The lines in answer choice (C)
explicitly state what Johnson considers to be most important about the
Great Society, and calls it a challenge constantly renewed; it matches
the topic of the previous question as well as the correct answer. Although
(A) also speaks to a challenge, Johnson is referring to the challenge of
following his call to forge the Great Society, not to something that would
be part of the Great Society itself, so (A) is incorrect. (B) captures his
optimism about achieving the Great Society, but it does not describe his
vision of what that means, so (B) is incorrect. (D) refers to previous
generations, not to those of the future who will make the Great Society a
reality, so (D) is incorrect.
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13. The correct answer is (A) In the first paragraph, Johnson connects
the founding of the country to the challenge of the next half century
(line 4), thus linking the countrys origin to his proposed future. Thus,
(A) is the correct answer choice. Johnson does not compare previous
generations negatively to current ones, so (B) is incorrect. Johnson also
does not compare current generations negatively to previous ones, so (C)
is incorrect. Johnsons mention of the countrys past is brief and not very
informative, so (D) is incorrect.
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14. The correct answer is (D) In the selection in answer choice (D),
Johnson explicitly links what he hopes future generations will achieve to
the mission of those who came to this land (lines 56-57); this fits
both the topic and the correct answer of the previous question. (A) talks
about the future of the society but makes no reference to the founding of
the country, so it is not strongly related to the topic of the previous
question; therefore, it is incorrect. (B) describes just one aspect of the
Great Society and does not connect it to the founding of the country, so it
is not relevant to the previous question; therefore, it is incorrect. (C) does
refer to history, but in this context history refers to the forces that have
laid problems on the current generation, not the mission of the founders
of the United States, so (C) is incorrect.
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15. The correct answer is (A) Answer choice (A) contains both
growth (the increasing profits) and negative symptoms (forcing
employees to increase their workload against their will). (B), (C), and
(D) all contain growth, but none of them contain negative symptoms,
since more railroad tracks, more children in school, or more people
buying books are either good or neutral things without further
information; therefore, they are all incorrect.
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16. The correct answer is (D) Johnson says that the Great Society
rests on abundance and liberty; this implies that abundance and liberty
are required for the Great Society to exist, matching answer (D). (A)
flips this relationship: if the Great Society were what made abundance
and liberty for all possible, then abundance and liberty would rest on the
Great Society, which is the reverse of what Johnson says. Thus, (A) is
incorrect. After mentioning abundance and liberty for all, as well as
some other things, Johnson explicitly says that is just the beginning; if
abundance and liberty for all were the ultimate goals of the Great
Society, there would be nothing after them, so (B) is incorrect. Johnson
clearly connects abundance and liberty for all to the Great Society; they
cannot be mutually exclusive if he expects them both to exist, so (C) is
incorrect.
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21. The correct answer is (B) After a short introduction, lines 10-35
and 45-61 describe the study, while the rest of the article talks about
what the studys findings might mean for people in certain fields. This is
best summarized by answer choice (B). Although the article talks about
sports, they are not the primary focus of the passage, and the ways sports
are discussed do not include anecdotes; therefore, (A) is incorrect.
Although the article extrapolates from the studys findings to potential
advice for managers, it is not primarily an advice piece, so (C) is
incorrect. The passage is primarily informative, not argumentative, and
does not address recruitment methods in detail, so (D) is incorrect.
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22. The correct answer is (A) The passage establishes in the first
paragraph that most people think team success primarily relies on higher
concentrations of top talent; it then describes research that suggests team
success often depends on other factors just as much or more, implying
that most peoples beliefs are incorrect. Thus, answer choice (A) is
correct. The passage implies that sports recruitment focuses on attracting
top talent above all other goals, and it also says that may not actually
correspond to team success; it challenges, not confirms, the conventional
wisdom of sports recruitment, so (B) is incorrect. The study looked at
real-world sports results, not laboratory experiments, so (C) is incorrect.
The article explicitly states that the findings about basketball and soccer
did not apply to baseball (line 54), so they do not explain team results in
all sports and therefore (D) is incorrect.
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23. The correct answer is (A) The lines in answer (A) both invoke
most peoples beliefs about team success and state the study finding that
seems to contradict these beliefs; it matches both the correct answer and
the general topic of the previous question. (B) sums up the study finding,
but it does not connect it to most peoples beliefs, so it does not directly
support the answer for the previous question and is therefore incorrect.
(C) offers an explanation for the researchers results, but it does not
relate to the relationship between those results and most peoples beliefs.
(D) gives a particular study finding that is in line with most peoples
beliefs, so it is incorrect.
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24. The correct answer is (C) The passage states that in all sports,
top talent did in fact predict team success (line 30), but that in
basketball and soccer, teams with the most top talent had less success
than those with moderate amounts of top talent (lines 34-35). Choice (C)
encapsulates both of these facts, and is thus the correct answer. It also
captures the findings in lines 45-61 that in basketball and soccer, teams
with the most top talent showed less intrateam coordination, which the
researchers thought explained the results about success. In all cases, top
talent did matter to a point, and in baseball, teamwork did not matter
more than top talent, so (A) is incorrect. The studys findings directly
contradict the fact that individual talent is always the most important
quality for sports teams, so (B) is incorrect. The study did find that teams
with the lowest top talent performed the worst, suggesting that weak
talent harms team success, so (D) is incorrect.
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25. The correct answer is (D) The lines in answer choice (D) expand
on what the researchers findings suggest, which aligns with the topic of
the previous question; these lines also makes specific reference to the
fact that teamwork is necessary to get the job done in specific
circumstances, which matches with the correct answer of the previous
question. (A) refers to interpreting the researchers findings, but it does
not refer to the importance of teamwork, so it is incorrect. (B) only
restates particular findings without interpreting them, so it is incorrect.
While (C) it mentions team goals, it does not explicitly refer to the
importance of teamwork in achieving those goals or reference in what
situations teamwork is most important; thus, it is incorrect.
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26. The correct answer is (D) The first paragraph sums up its main
point as Everyone wants a team of stars (line 9); this fits with the
conventional wisdom about talent and success, answer (D), which the
passage goes on to question. The paragraph does not confirm that a high
level of talent is important or explain why that would be true, so (A) is
incorrect. The paragraph does not talk about the success of various teams
at all, so (B) is incorrect. The paragraph describes a common approach to
recruitment, but it does not endorse it, so (C) is incorrect.
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27. The correct answer is (B) Replacing employed with used (B)
in the sentence makes sense: a statistic can be used. There are no
contexts in which a statistic can be occupied, appointed, or hired, so (A),
(C), and (D) are all incorrect.
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29. The correct answer is (D) The passage states that extreme levels
of top talent did not have the same negative effect in baseball, which
experts have argued involves much less interdependent play, which
suggests a link between the different results for baseball and the lower
amount of cooperative play involved, making answer choice (D) correct.
The passage does not say anything about the cooperative play skills of
top baseball players, so (A) is incorrect. The passage does not say
anything about a difference between the percentage of elite athletes on
baseball teams as opposed to basketball teams, so (B) is incorrect. The
passage does not say anything about the role of the number of players on
the field at a time, so (C) is incorrect.
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30. The correct answer is (B) Answer (B) features a group that must
work collaboratively (the choir) to achieve a single goal (winning a
singing competition); good singers who can sing well together might pay
off more than great singers who cant stop singing like soloists. This best
represents a situation where teamwork may be more important than top
talent. (A), (B), and (D) all feature situations in which individuals are
being judged for or succeeding on their performance alone, not as part of
a team; thus, these choices are incorrect.
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31. The correct answer is (B) The graph shows that intrateam
coordination for basketball teams is highest, on average, when about half
the players qualify as top talent; more or fewer elite players causes
intrateam coordination to suffer, which the passage suggests also causes
performance to suffer. Thus, answer choice (B) is correct. Teams with no
top talent have lower levels of intrateam coordination than all-star teams
(-1.5 as opposed to 0), so (A) is incorrect. The low coordination of teams
with low top talent also suggests that a struggling basketball team will
not gain in coordination or performance from losing top players, so (C) is
incorrect. The chart does not suggest anything about how common
particular levels of top talent are for basketball teams, so (D) is incorrect.
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32. The correct answer is (B) The author describes the study and the
reasons its important; the author was not involved in the study, so
observer (B) is an appropriate word to characterize the authors
position to the research. The author is not advocating for anything in
particular, nor is the passage particularly emotional, so (A) is incorrect.
The author does not criticize Ramirez and Liu, so (C) is incorrect. The
author is not a scientist and therefore not a colleague of Ramirez and Liu,
so (D) is incorrect.
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33. The correct answer is (C) The author says that the research
supports the extraordinary hypothesis (lines 14-15) that specific cells
could be manipulated to alter memories; this supports the idea that the
research was important mostly because it showed that memories can be
changed through specific interventions, leading to answer (C). The
passage does not refer to technologies that may prevent memory loss, so
(A) is incorrect. The research shows that memories can in fact be
tampered with, so (B) is incorrect. The purpose of the dentate gyrus was
known before the research described in the passage, so (D) is incorrect.
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34. The correct answer is (A) The lines in answer (A) summarize the
researchers results, which aligns with the content of the previous
question; the lines include reference to the researchers success at
manipulating brain cells to alter memories, which matches the previous
answer. (B), (C), and (D) all refer to technical aspects of the research
without discussing the significance of the results, so they dont align
with the content of the previous question and are therefore incorrect.
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35. The correct answer is (C) The second study was the study in
which the Ramirez and Liu successfully manipulated the memories of a
mouse (lines 56-71), which is what is being described in the first
paragraph; thus answer (C) is correct. The mouse moving around is
something that happened as a part of studies, not before or after them, so
(A) and (D) are incorrect. The first study was focused only on showing
that the scientists had identified and labeled an engram (line 47). The
reaction to the false memory that the first paragraph describes was not
part of that first experiment; thus, (B) is incorrect.
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36. The correct answer is (A) The passage states that individual
memories are stored in clusters of neurons (line 20); this means that
multiple neurons can be involved in storing a single memory, as in
answer (A). The passage does not state that each neuron is only involved
in one memory, so (B) is incorrect. The passage explicitly states that
memories are stored in neurons, so (C) is incorrect. The passage does not
say whether or not neurons can take part in storing multiple memories, so
(D) is incorrect.
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37. The correct answer is (B) Replacing render with make (B) in
the sentence makes sense. Brain cells cannot be provided or expressed,
so (A) and (D) are incorrect. Brain cells can be depicted, but the sentence
is talking about an action performed on brain cells, not a depiction of
them, so (C) is incorrect.
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38. The correct answer is (C) The passage states that in the first study,
Ramirez and Liu identified, labeled, and then reactivated a small cluster
of cells encoding a mouses fear memory (lines 27-29), after explaining
that those cells are called engrams. Thus, (C) is the correct answer.
Implanting a false memory engram was the goal of the second study, not
the first, so (A) is incorrect. The studies relied on previous knowledge of
fear responses in mice but did not directly study fear responses, so (B) is
incorrect. The researchers were making brain cells, not the mice
themselves, sensitive to light; thus, (D) is incorrect.
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39. The correct answer is (A) The lines in answer (A) summarize
Ramirez and Lius first study, which aligns with the content of the
previous question; the lines highlight the scientists focus on a small
cluster of cells encoding [a] memory, which the passage states
elsewhere is what an engram is, so it also matches the answer of the
previous question. (B), (C), and (D) all describes a specific aspects of the
first study but do not connect to the studys goal, so they are incorrect.
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41. The correct answer is (A) The researchers used the light-sensitive
cells to reactivate the memory on command, as described in answer
choice (A). The research suggests that memories are encoded in engrams
regularly, not as a result of the cells becoming light-sensitive, so (B) is
incorrect. The light-sensitive cells were used to reactivate the memory,
so the mouse was still able to recall it; therefore, (C) is incorrect. The
passage does not suggest that the light-sensitive cells made the mouses
fear responses more intense, so (D) is incorrect.
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42. The correct answer is (C) Passage 1 states that blue LEDs are
important (line 1) and says that they are all around us in the
developed world (lines 28-29), indicating that they have already had an
impact. Thus, answer (C) is correct. The passage does not focus on how
well we understand the physical principles behind them, so (A) is
incorrect. The passage emphasizes that blue LEDs have widespread use,
so (B) is incorrect. The passage states that blue LEDs are already
significant, and they are also already largely used and therefore beyond
the prototype phase; therefore, (D) is incorrect.
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43. The correct answer is (D) The lines in answer choice (D)
emphasize that blue LEDs are already important, which is what the
correct answer to the previous question stated. (A) describes a particular
application of blue LEDs, but not their overall importance, so it is
incorrect. (B) describes a physical property and does not relate to the
passages stance on blue LEDs, so it is incorrect. (C) describes the
process through which blue LEDs make white LEDs possible, but it does
not discuss the broad importance of blue LEDs, so it is incorrect.
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44. The correct answer is (C) Replacing vital with essential (C)
makes sense in the sentence. A component of white light is an inanimate
quantity, and inanimate quantities cannot be lively or vigorous, so (A)
and (B) are incorrect. Inanimate quantities can potentially be compelling,
but that is not how the word is being used in the sentence, so (D) is
incorrect.
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45. The correct answer is (B) Lines 15-21 in Passage 1 explain that
we can make white light from green, red, and blue light because those
are the only colors human eyes have receptors for. This is why blue light
is important for creating white LEDs, making (B) the correct answer. The
passage does not talk about the relative cost of manufacturing blue and
white LEDs, so (A) is incorrect. The passage states that only green, red,
and blue must be present for humans to perceive white light, which
means other colors can be absent, so (C) is incorrect. The passage does
not comment on how difficult or easy blue light is to produce artificially,
so (D) is incorrect.
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47. The correct answer is (D) The passage states that the researchers
found that white LEDs attracted 48 percent more flying invertebrates
than the sodium lamps (lines 27-28) and goes on to note their concern
that white LEDs will exacerbate pest problems (line 33). Thus, answer
(D) is correct. The researchers do not express concern over insects dying
or going away, so (A) is incorrect. Although the researchers do mention
concern for other species sensitive to blue light, their experiment dealt
specifically with insects, so (B) is incorrect. Although they are concerned
about increases of invertebrates close to white LED lamps, they do not
say they are worried that the number of invertebrates in an area will
actually increase, so (C) is incorrect.
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48. The correct answer is (C) The lines in answer (C) relate to the
results of an experiment finding that white LEDs attract more pets than
sodium lamps do; this summarizes the correct answer of the previous
question. (A) talks about sodium lamps, but not about white LEDs or
pests, so it is not strongly related to the previous question and is
therefore incorrect. (B) describes the researchers experiments but does
not refer to the results that bolster their concern, so it is incorrect. (D)
gives an example of the researchers concerns being borne out, but their
concerns extend beyond just midge swarms, so it is incorrect.
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52. The correct answer is (A) Passage 1 states that the biggest
impact of blue LEDs is in giving us the ability to produce white LEDs
(lines 10-11); Passage 2 states that the invention of blue LEDs was
crucial for producing bright white LED lighting (line 3). Thus, both
authors seem to agree on this point, making (A) correct. Neither passage
says that blue LEDs alone are dangerous, so (B) is incorrect. The author
of Passage 1 does not mention harm caused by blue LEDs, and the
author of Passage 2 focuses on their impact on insect populations, not
humans, so (C) is incorrect. Neither passage mentions difficulties in
manufacturing blue LEDs, so (D) is incorrect.
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