SAT Practice- Reading Portion Answers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. The main purpose of the first paragraph is to

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

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

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

33. The central claim of the passage is that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. Which reaction does Akira most fear from Chie?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. The main purpose of the passage is to

6. In the passage, Akira addresses Chie with

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

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

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

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

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