SAT Practice- Reading Portion Answers

28. Based on the table + passage, which choice gives the correct percentage of the purines in yeast DNA?

14. Which choice provides the best enidence for the answer to the previous question?

3. As used in line 1 and line 65, "directly" most nearly means

25. The author's main purpose of including the info abt x-ray evidence and density is to

8. Used in line 2, "form" most nearly means

9. Why does Akira say his meeting with Chie is "a matter of urgency" (line 32)?

5. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous questions?

42. In lines 9-17, the author of Passage 1 mentions several comanies primarily to

6. In the passage, Akira addresses Chie with

35. According to the passage, Woolf chooses the setting of the bridge because it

33. The central claim of the passage is that

52. Which point about the resources that will be highly valued in space in implicit in P1 and explicit in P2?

48. As used in line 68, "hold" most nearly means

51. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

22. The authors use the word "backbone" in lines 3 and 39 to indicate that

21. The authors would likely attribute the differences in gift-giver and recipient mean appreciation as represented...

7. The main purpose of the first paragraph is to

49. Which statement best describes the relationship between the passages?

32. The main purpose of the passage is to

2. Which choice best describes the developmental pattern of the passage?

4. Which reaction does Akira most fear from Chie?

34. Woolf uses the word "we" throughout the passage mainly to

44. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

12. In line 10, the word "ambivalent" most nearly means

20. The graph following the passafe offers evidence that gift givers base their predictions of how much a gift will be..

31. Based on the table, is the % of adenine in each organism's DNA the same, and which statement consists w/ the data?

The range of places and occasions listed in lines 72-76 mainly serves to emphasize how

50. The author of Passage 2 would most likely respond to the discussion of the future of space mining in line 18-28...

19. The authors refer to work by Camerer and others in order to

18. As used in line 54, "convey" most nearly means

46. What function does the discussion of water in lines 35-40 serve in Passage 1?

10. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

47. The central claim of Passage 2 is that space mining has positive potential but

37. Which choise provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

11. The authors most likely use the examples in lines 1-9 of the passage ("Every...showers) to highlight the

45. As used in Line 19, "demands" most nearly means

23. A student claims that nitrogenous bases pair randomly w/ one another. Which of the following contradicts the claim?

43. The author of Passage 1 indicates that space mining could have which positive effect?

15. The "social psychologists" mentioned in par. 2 would liekly descirve the "deadweight loss" phenomenon as

30. According to the table, which of the pairs of base % in sea urchin DNA provides evidence of the answer to 29?

36. Woolf indicates that the procession she descirbes in the passage

27. The author's use of the words "exact", "specific", and "complement" in the last paragraph functions mainly to

13. The authors indicate that people value gift-giving because they feel it

24. In the 2nd paragraph, what do the authors claim to be a feature of biological interest?

26. Based on the passage, the author's statement in lines 29-30 imploies that a pair

16. The passage indicates that the assimption made by gift-givers in lines 41-44 may be

38. Woolf characterizes the question in lines 53-57 as both

40. Which choice most closely captures the meaning of the figurative "sixpence" referred to in lines 70-71?

29. Do the data in the table support the authors' proposed pairing of bases in DNA?

1. What choice best describes what happens in the passage?

39. Whihc choise provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

17. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?