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Digital SAT Practice- Grammar
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1. Formed in 1967 to foster political and economic stability within the Asia-Pacific region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was originally made up of five members: Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. By the end of the 1990s, the organization ______ its initial membership.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) has doubled
B) had doubled
C) doubles
D) will double
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2. The intense pressure found in the deep ocean can affect the structure of proteins in fish’s cells, distorting the proteins’ shape. The chemical trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) counters this effect, ensuring that proteins retain their original ______ is found in high concentrations in the cells of the deepest-dwelling fish.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) configurations. TMAO
B) configurations TMAO
C) configurations, TMAO
D) configurations and TMAO
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3. To survive when water is scarce, embryos inside African turquoise killifish eggs ______ a dormant state known as diapause. In this state, embryonic development is paused for as long as two years—longer than the life span of an adult killifish.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) enter
B) to enter
C) having entered
D) entering
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4. Food and the sensation of taste are central to Monique Truong’s novels. In The Book of Salt, for example, the exiled character of Bình connects to his native Saigon through the food he prepares, while in Bitter in the Mouth, the character of Linda ______ a form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears evoke tastes.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) experienced
B) had experienced
C) experiences
D) will be experiencing
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5. In her analysis of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as “consumed by the appetite of a soulless ______ an apt assessment given that The House of Mirth is set during the Gilded Age, a period marked by rapid industrialization, economic greed, and widening wealth disparities.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) materialism”; and
B) materialism” and
C) materialism,”
D) materialism"
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6. Inventor John Friedman created a prototype of the first flexible straw by inserting a screw into a paper straw and, using dental floss, binding the straw tightly around the ______ When the floss and screw were removed, the resulting corrugations in the paper allowed the straw to bend easily over the edge of a glass.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) screw’s thread’s.
B) screws’ threads.
C) screw’s threads.
D) screws threads’.
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7. To humans, it does not appear that the golden orb-weaver spider uses camouflage to capture its ______ the brightly colored arachnid seems to wait conspicuously in the center of its large circular web for insects to approach. Researcher Po Peng of the University of Melbourne has explained that the spider’s distinctive coloration may in fact be part of its appeal.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) prey, rather,
B) prey rather,
C) prey, rather;
D) prey; rather,
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8. In Death Valley National Park’s Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, are 162 rocks—some weighing less than a pound but others almost 700 pounds—that move periodically from place to place, seemingly of their own volition. Racetrack-like trails in the ______ mysterious migration.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) playas sediment mark the rock’s
B) playa’s sediment mark the rocks
C) playa’s sediment mark the rocks’
D) playas’ sediment mark the rocks’
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9. In crafting her fantasy fiction, Nigerian-born British author Helen Oyeyemi has drawn inspiration from the classic nineteenth-century fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Her 2014 novel Boy, Snow, Bird, for instance, is a complex retelling of the story of Snow White, while her 2019 novel ______ offers a delicious twist on the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) Gingerbread—
B) Gingerbread,
C) Gingerbread
D) Gingerbread:
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10. For thousands of years, people in the Americas ______ the bottle gourd, a large bitter fruit with a thick rind, to make bottles, other types of containers, and even musical instruments. Oddly, there is no evidence that any type of bottle gourd is native to the Western Hemisphere; either the fruit or its seeds must have somehow been carried from Asia or Africa.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) to use
B) have used
C) having used
D) using
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11. While many video game creators strive to make their graphics ever more ______ others look to the past, developing titles with visuals inspired by the “8-bit” games of the 1980s and 1990s. (The term “8-bit” refers to a console whose processor could only handle eight bits of data at once.)
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) lifelike but
B) lifelike
C) lifelike,
D) lifelike, but
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12. In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sisterin-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company’s product, a nontoxic, clay-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper, as a modeling putty for kids. In addition, Zufall ______ selling the product under a child-friendly name: Play-Doh.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) suggested
B) suggests
C) had suggested
D) was suggesting
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13. Beatrix Potter is perhaps best known for writing and illustrating children’s books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she also dedicated herself to mycology, the study of ______ more than 350 paintings of the fungal species she observed in nature and submitting her research on spore germination to the Linnean Society of London.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) fungi; producing
B) fungi. Producing
C) fungi producing
D) fungi, producing
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14. In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ______ have missed his equally deep engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh theater.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) many critics have focused on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources but
B) Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources has been the focus of many critics, who
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; they
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15. Joshua Hinson, director of the language revitalization program of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, helped produce the world’s first Indigenous-language instructional app, Chickasaw ______ Chickasaw TV, in 2010; and a Rosetta Stone language course in Chickasaw, in 2015.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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A) Basic; in 2009, an online television network;
B) Basic; in 2009, an online television network,
C) Basic, in 2009; an online television network,
D) Basic, in 2009, an online television network,
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16. The forty-seven geothermal springs of Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park are sourced via a process known as natural groundwater recharge, in which rainwater percolates downward through the earth—in this case, the porous rocks of the hills around Hot ______ collect in a subterranean basin.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) Springs to
B) Springs: to
C) Springs—to
D) Springs, to
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17. Over twenty years ago, in a landmark experiment in the psychology of choice, professor Sheena Iyengar set up a jam-tasting booth at a grocery store. The number of jams available for tasting ______ some shoppers had twenty-four different options, others only six. Interestingly, the shoppers with fewer jams to choose from purchased more jam.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) varied:
B) varied,
C) varied, while
D) varied while
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18. Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta’s celebrated literary oeuvre includes The Joys of Motherhood, a novel about the changing roles of women in 1950s ______ a television play about the private struggles of a newlywed couple in Nigeria; and Head Above Water, her autobiography.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
4 points
A) Lagos, A Kind of Marriage,
B) Lagos; A Kind of Marriage,
C) Lagos, A Kind of Marriage:
D) Lagos; A Kind of Marriage
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19. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah chronicles the divergent experiences of Ifemelu and Obinze, a young Nigerian couple, after high school. Ifemelu moves to the United States to attend a prestigious university. ______ Obinze travels to London, hoping to start a career there. However, frustrated with the lack of opportunities, he soon returns to Nigeria.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) Meanwhile,
B) Nevertheless,
C) Secondly,
D) In fact,
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20. Organisms have evolved a number of surprising
adaptations to ensure their survival in adverse
conditions. Tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus)
embryos, ______ can pause development for over
ten years during extended periods of drought.
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical transition?
4 points
A) in contrast,
B) for example,
C) meanwhile,
D) consequently,
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21. In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The amendment mandates that presidential inaugurations be held on January 20, approximately ten weeks after the November election. ______ this amendment requires newly elected US senators and representatives to be sworn into their respective offices on January 3.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) Instead,
B) For instance,
C) Specifically,
D) In addition,
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22. In her poetry collection Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove interweaves the titular characters’ personal stories with broader historical narratives. She places Thomas’s journey from the American South to the Midwest in the early 1900s within the larger context of the Great Migration. ______ Dove sets events from Beulah’s personal life against the backdrop of the US Civil Rights Movement.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) Specifically,
B) Thus,
C) Regardless,
D) Similarly,
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23. Women who worked part-time made up 26 percent of all female wage and salary workers in 2011. ______ 13 percent of men in wage and salary jobs worked part-time.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) Similarly,
B) In contrast,
C) Consequently,
D) Notwithstanding this,
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24. If we consider that civilization involves the whole process of human achievement, it must admit a great variety of qualities and degrees of development; __________ it appears to be a relative term applied to the variation of human life.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) hence
B) furthermore
C) likewise
D) finally
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25. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received 1,691 reports of malaria among persons in the United States, representing a 14% increase from the 1,484 cases reported with onset of symptoms in 2009. _________, the number of cases reported in 2010 are the largest number of malaria cases that have been reported in the United States since 1980.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
4 points
A) Both
B) Besides
C) Additionally
D) Such as
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