Craft… | SAT The Reading and Writing Section

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Mar 17, 2024

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According to botanists, a vibrurn plant experiencing insect damage may develop erineum--a discolored, 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?

Difficulty: Easy

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?

Difficulty: Easy

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?

Difficulty: Easy

replacing

inventing

preserving

counting

The following text is adapted from George Eliot's 1871-72 novel Middlemerch. [Mr. Brooke] had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the country to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather. As used in the text, what does the word "contracted" most nearly mean?

Difficulty: Hard

Restricted

Described

Developed

Settled

Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing, she did not view the genre as _______: Butler broke into the field with the publication of several short stories and her 1976 novel Patternmaster, and she later became the first science fiction writer to win a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Difficulty: Medium

legitimate

impenetrable

compelling

indecipherable

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