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Rabinal Aché is a precolonial Maya dance drama performed annually in Rabinal, a town in the Guatemalan highlands.
Based on events that occurred when Rabinal was a city-state ruled by a king, had once been an ally of the king but
was later captured while leading an invading force against him.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A. Rabinal Achi tells the story of K'iche’ Achi, a military leader who
B. K'iche' Achi, the military leader in the story of Rabinal Achi,
C. the military leader whose story is told in Rabinal Achi, K'iche’ Achi,
D, there was a military leader, Kiche’ Achi, who in Rabinal AchéQuestion ID 37e5c794
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conve and Sense
PREY TIE DS
Despite being cheap, versatile, and easy to produce, they are made from nonrenewable petroleum, and most do not
biodegrade in landfills,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. there are two problems associated with commercial plastics:
B, two problems are associated with commercial plastics:
C. commercial plastics’ two associated problems are that
D. commercial plastics have two associated problems:Question ID c91ef0f0
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During the American Civil War, Thomas Morris Chester braved the front lines as a war correspondent for the Philadelphia
Press. Amplifying the voices and experiences of Black soldiers of particular importance to Chester, who later became,
an activist and lawyer during the postwar Reconstruction period,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A.were
B. have been
Care
D. wasQuestion ID ea0aa676
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conve and Sense
PUL
In the 1970s, Janaki Ammal, a prominent botanist, emerged as a powerful voice in India's environmental conservation
‘movement. Her exhaustive chromosomal survey of plants in
nt Valley, a pristine tropical forest in Kerala, India, that is
home to nearly 1,000 species of native flora (many of which are endangered), instrumental in the government's
decision to preserve the forest.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Aare
B. were
C. have been
D. wasQuestion ID dc645172
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, 1
Writing Conve and Sense
eae?
The artistic talents of Barbara Chase-Riboud, most known for her 1979 historical novel Sally Hemings and the
conversation it inspired, limited to the realm of prose: she first excelled in sculpture, where her affinity for bronze—a
‘material she described as “timeless” due to its use across eras and cultures—became part of her artistic identity.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. hasn’t been
B. wasn't
isn't
D. aren'tQuestion ID 512f0ac9
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conventions and Sense
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Working from an earlier discovery of Charpentier’s, chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna—winners of
the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—re-created and then reprogrammed the so-called “genetic scissors” of a species of
DNA-cleaving bacteria __ a tool that is revolutionizing the field of gene technology.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A.to forge
B. forging
C. forged
D. and forgingQuestion ID d2b81427
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conve and Sense
Pee eag
In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, have missed his equally deep engagement with Japanese
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A. many critics have focused on Kurosawa's use of Western literary sources but
who
B, Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources has been the focus of many critics,
C. there are many critics who have focused on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources, but they
D. the focus of many critics has been on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources; theyQuestion ID 3bceeb93
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, 1
Writing Conve and Sense
PRED L Es
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
Cits
D.it’sQuestion ID dab8b8ee
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conve and Sense
PEELS
Known as Earth's “living skin,” biocrusts are thin layers of soil held together by surface-dwelling microorganisms such as
fungi lichens, and cyanobacteria. Fortifying soil in arid ecosystems ag:
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A a recent study's estimate is that these crusts reduce global dust emissions by 60 percent each year.
B. an estimated 60 percent reduction in global dust emissions each year is due to these crusts, according to a recent
study.
C. these crusts reduce global dust emissions by an estimated 60 percent each year, according to a recent study,
D. a recent study has estimated that these crusts reduce global dust emissions by 60 percent each year.Question ID Ofe5ce68
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conventions and Sense
Date
Ten of William Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories. Although each one of these plays, which inclucle Henry V and
Richard tl, on a single historical figure (specifically, an English king), some, such as Henry VI Part One and Henry VI
Part Two, feature different episodes from the same monarch’s life.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. focuses
B. focus
Care focused
D. were focusedQuestion ID 5b8f9cf2
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In the canon of North African literature, Moroccan author Driss Chraibi’s 1954 novel The Simple Past (Le Passé simple)
looms large. A coming-of-age story, a social meditation, and a sober gaze into the dark maw of French colonialism,
interrogates systemic power with memorable intensity,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A. Morocco gained its independence two years before the publication of Chraibi’s debut novel, which
B. Chraibi's debut novel, published two years before Moracco gained its independence,
C. Chraibi wrote a debut novel that, published two years before Morocco gained its independence,
D. published two years before Morocco gained its independence, Chraibi wrote a debut novel thatQuestion ID de3dd17d
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, 1
Writing Conve and Sense
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Planetary scientist Briony Horgan and her colleagues have determined that as much as 25 percent of the sand on Mars is
composed of impact spherules. These spherical bits of glass form when asteroids collide with the planet, ejecting bits of
molten rock into the atmosphere that, after cooling and solidifying into glass, back onto Mars's surface.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A.to rain
B. raining
having rained
Da rainQuestion ID 2dd1b8bf
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Compared to that of alumina glass,
being separated
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A silica glass is at a significant disadvantage due to its more dispersed atomic arrangement:
B, silica glass has a more dispersed atomic arrangement, resulting in a significant disadvantage:
C.a significant disadvantage of silica glass is that its atomic arrangement is more dispersed:
D silica glass's atomic arrangement is more dispersed, resulting in a significant disadvantage:
silica glass atoms are so far apart that they are unable to re-form bonds afterQuestion ID 188f7e3c
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conve and Sense
PEL CeT
In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and
divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By reducing the runoff flowing into city sewers,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. the mitigation of both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways has been achieved by bioswales.
B, the bioswales have mitigated both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways.
C. the bioswales’ mitigation of both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways has been achieved
D. both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways have been mitigated by bioswales.Question ID 61160f0a
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PRTC
Author Madeline L'Engle,
with descriptions of “wraithlike shadows" and “the frenzied lashing of the wind.”
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. looked
B. looks
C.is looking
D. looking
to create a suspenseful tone that draws the reader in, begins her novel A Wrinkle in TimeQuestion ID d46ac7e7
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conventions and Sense
PLC a CTs
A second-generation Japanese American, Wataru Misaka in World War Il (1941-45) and won two amateur national
basketball championships at the University of Utah when he joined the New York Knicks for the 1947-48 season,
becoming the first non-white basketball player in the US's top professional league
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A already served
B. was already serving
C. already serves
D. had already servedQuestion ID 329255db
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conventions and Sense
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Bengali author Toru Dutt’s A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876), a volume of English translations of French poems,
scholars’ understanding of the transnational and multilingual contexts in which Dutt lived and worked,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A has enhanced
B. are enhancing
C have enhanced
D. enhanceQuestion ID 50801257
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, nun
Writing Conventions and Sense
PRE read
In 1994, almost 200 years after the death of Wang Zhenyi, the International Astronomical the contributions of the
barrier-breaking 18th-century astronomer and author of "Dispute of the Procession of the Equinoxes,” naming a crater on
Venus after her.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A. Union would finally acknowledge
B. Union to finally acknowledge
C. Union, having finally acknowledged
D. Union, finally acknowledgingQuestion ID 8a9d2f4e
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, 1
Writing Conve and Sense
PREECE Tac
Researchers studying the “terra-cotta army,” the thousands of life-size statues of warriors found interred near the tomb of
Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China, were shocked to realize that the shape of each statue's ears, lke the shape of each
person's ears, ___unique.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Aare
Bis
C. were
D. have beenQuestion ID a14eef71
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In 2015, a team led by materials scientists Anirudha Sumant and Diana Berman succeeded in reducing the coefficient of
friction (COF) between two surfaces to the lowest possible level—superlubricity. A nearly frictionless (and, as its name
suggests, extremely slippery) state,__
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A. when their COF drops below 0.01, two surfaces reach superlubricty.
B, two surfaces, when their COF drops below 0.01, reach superlubricity.
C. reaching superlubricity occurs when two surfaces’ COF drops below 0.01
D. superlubricty is reached when two surfaces’ COF drops below 0.01Question ID 3daf126e
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SAT Reading and Standard English Form, Structure, 1
Writing Conve and Sense
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‘A model created by biologist Luis Valente predicts that the rate of speciation—the rate at which new species form—on an
isolated island located approximately 5,000 kilometers from the nearest mainland triple the rate of speciation on an
island only 500 kilometers from the mainland,
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. being
B.tobe
C. to have been
D. will beQuestion ID dfbf5d33
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In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely il. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third
Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon recovering two years later,
forcing an angered Richard from the royal court and precipitating a series of battles later known as the Wars of the
Roses.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
‘A Henry resumed his reign,
B, the reign of Henry resumed,
C. Henry's reign resumed,
D. it was Henry who resumed his reign,