SAT ELA Exam 8 (Full Module 1)

Complete this realistic 27-question, 32-minute timed SAT ELA set and sharpen the reading, grammar, transitions, and evidence-based reasoning skills needed to choose the best answer under pressure. This section is designed to feel like the real test, helping you build accuracy, confidence, and control as you work through each question with focus and precision.

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Question 1
Answer: C. resilient
The sentence says that even after the earliest trench collapsed, the archaeologist believed the overall research plan could still continue because nearby undisturbed areas could answer the key questions. That means the plan could absorb a setback without failing. The best word is resilient, which means able to recover from difficulty or continue functioning despite disruption.
Why the others are wrong: lucid means clear, provisional means temporary or not yet final, and ornate means highly decorative. None of those captures the idea of withstanding a setback and still remaining workable.
Question 2
Answer: D. The passage suggests that the treaty’s historical importance lay less in its immediate effect on border disputes than in the record-keeping methods later borrowed by other administrations.
The passage explicitly says the treaty resolved few disputes at first and was criticized early on. Its later significance came from the procedures other governments copied for land claims, testimony, and boundary revision. So the treaty mattered less for its immediate settlements than for the administrative framework it helped establish.
Why the others are wrong: the passage never mentions strict penalties, never says the treaty totally failed, and directly contradicts the idea that it was celebrated from the beginning.
Question 3
Answer: A. It provides evidence that the explanation in the first sentence may account for only part of the observed trend.
The first sentence claims that stronger storms and the erosion they caused explain the decline in dune grass. The second sentence introduces timing evidence showing that die-off had already accelerated before erosion peaked. That means erosion may be part of the explanation, but not necessarily the whole explanation.
Why the others are wrong: the second sentence does not criticize methods, does not just rephrase the first, and does not fully disprove the original explanation. It complicates it.
Question 4
Answer: A. Text 1 presents a broad trend, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that reduces the strength of that trend.
Text 1 gives a general pattern: earlier warming tends to lead to earlier hatching. Text 2 does not reject that pattern outright. Instead, it explains a specific local condition — cold runoff from snowfields — that keeps soil temperatures low and weakens the usual effect of earlier warming.
Why the others are wrong: Text 2 is not arguing warming never matters, not discussing an unrelated event, and not merely giving a more detailed version of the same pattern. It is qualifying the general pattern.
Question 5
Answer: D. Text 2 provides a concrete example that applies the general principle described in Text 1.
Text 1 gives an abstract principle about equal treatment creating inefficiency when different cases have different needs. Text 2 provides a concrete example through a permit-review system: identical deadlines look fair but create delays when cases differ in complexity. That is exactly the relationship between a general principle and a specific application.
Why the others are wrong: Text 2 does not reject the principle, does not show that it applies only when funding is lacking, and does not disagree with Text 1 about fairness as a goal.
Question 6
Answer: A. To show that the reported gains may depend partly on other unusually favorable conditions.
The first sentence reports strong gains from accelerated civics courses. The second sentence adds that every participating district also had unusually small discussion sections, weekly tutoring, and diagnostic placement. That means the gains may be due to more than the courses alone. The second sentence limits how confidently the result can be generalized.
Why the others are wrong: it does not prove the intervention was ineffective without every support, it does not introduce a second study, and it does not restate the first sentence.
Question 7
Answer: B. nevertheless
The sentence says the manuscript’s preface is missing, yet scholars can still infer the author’s distinctions from later references. That second idea contrasts with the first: despite the missing preface, reconstruction is still possible. Nevertheless is the best transition for that kind of concession.
Why the others are wrong: similarly signals comparison, for example signals illustration, and therefore signals direct consequence. None fits the contrast here.
Question 8
Answer: A. had
The sentence refers to one action happening before another point in the past: the municipalities had already submitted appeals before the revised ordinance took effect. That requires the past perfect, so had is correct.
Why the others are wrong: has and have are present tense, and having is a participle, not the main verb the sentence needs.
Question 9
Answer: D. Among the surviving notes, the editor found a diagram that clarified the argument’s missing step.
This version is the clearest and most natural revision. It places the introductory phrase in a standard location, keeps the sentence active, and makes the relationship between the editor, the notes, and the diagram easy to follow.
Why the others are wrong: the other versions are either awkwardly passive, clumsy, or poorly structured. This choice is the clearest and most grammatically standard.
Question 10
Answer: C. precisely
The sentence says the later report limits the earlier finding to more exactly defined conditions. Precisely fits because it means clearly, exactly, or specifically.
Why the others are wrong: unusually and especially are too vague, and merely changes the meaning rather than sharpening it.
Question 11
Answer: C. Text 1 presents a broad interpretive problem, whereas Text 2 supplies a specific historical case that exemplifies it.
Text 1 gives a general claim about how the same directive can be interpreted differently and therefore produce uneven practical effects. Text 2 gives a concrete nineteenth-century customs-reform example showing exactly that.
Why the others are wrong: A reverses the relationship between the two texts, B wrongly claims disagreement, and D is too narrow because the issue is broader than tax policy alone.
Question 12
Correct answer: B.
Although some early visitors found the exhibition confusing, later museums adopted its method of grouping objects by use rather than by date or donor, a structure that critics said encouraged new comparisons across everyday and ceremonial items.
Why B is correct: The goal is to show that the exhibition changed how visitors interpreted ordinary objects, not just which objects were displayed. Choice B does that best because it highlights the grouping method and explains that this arrangement led critics and later museums to see new relationships among everyday and ceremonial items. It directly connects the exhibition’s structure to a shift in interpretation.
Why the others are incorrect: A only repeats the goal instead of turning the notes into a developed sentence. C invents a claim about an unusual number of artifacts from different donors, which is not supported by the notes. D mentions confusion and reviews, but it does not clearly show how the exhibition changed the way visitors understood or compared the objects.
Question 13
Answer: C. qualify
The sentence says the committee endorsed the proposal overall, but also noted uncertainty in the migration models behind some projected benefits. That means the endorsement is being limited or conditioned, not withdrawn. Qualify best captures that idea.
Why the others are wrong: attenuate means weaken more generally, corroborate means confirm, and prolong means lengthen. None fits the precise idea of attaching a reservation to support.
Question 14
Answer: A. The passage suggests that the reform’s long-term influence arose less from its immediate reception than from the reporting framework later borrowed by unrelated institutions.
The passage contrasts early criticism with later influence. What made the reform important was not immediate praise but the categories other institutions adopted when building their own record systems.
Why the others are wrong: the passage does not mention reduced clerical labor, expanded legal authority, or historical unimportance.
Question 15
Answer: D. It introduces evidence suggesting that the explanation in the first sentence may be incomplete.
The first sentence says prolonged salt exposure caused the decline. The second sentence says reduced growth had already begun before salt concentrations peaked. That timing weakens confidence in the original explanation and suggests that another factor may also be involved.
Why the others are wrong: it does not confirm the original claim, does not discuss measurement methods, and does not shift to public policy.
Question 16
Answer: B. Text 1 presents a broad tendency, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that can weaken that tendency.
Text 1 gives a general pattern about earlier warming and earlier maturation. Text 2 adds a specific environmental condition — late snowmelt delaying plant growth — that weakens the relationship in some meadows.
Why the others are wrong: Text 2 does not reject the conclusion outright, does not merely translate it into technical language, and is not about an unrelated spring phenomenon.
Question 17
Correct answer: B. The scientist’s first experiment received little attention and its numerical estimates were later revised, but the calibration method developed for it was later used by astronomers designing more sensitive telescopes.
Why B is correct: The goal is to emphasize that the scientist’s later influence came not from the experiment’s immediate reception, but from a technique that others later adopted. Choice B does this best because it directly contrasts the experiment’s weak early reception and revised numerical estimates with the later importance of the calibration method in telescope design.
Why the others are incorrect: A only repeats the goal rather than turning the notes into a proper synthesized sentence. C invents a claim that the experiment later became famous, which is not supported by the notes. D lists some relevant details, but it does not clearly emphasize that the scientist’s later influence came specifically from the measuring technique rather than from the experiment’s initial success.
Question 18
Answer: A. fewer
The noun corrections is countable and plural, so the correct modifier is fewer.
Why the others are wrong: less is for uncountable quantities, much does not fit grammatically here, and amount is a noun, not the needed adjective.
Question 19
Answer: B. provisional
The committee had not yet received all the seismic readings, so its hazard estimate could not yet be final. Provisional means temporary or subject to revision, which matches the context.
Why the others are wrong: restrained means controlled, intrinsic means inherent, and opaque means unclear. None matches the idea of being unfinished pending further evidence.
Question 20
Answer: A. The passage suggests that the directory’s lasting significance lay less in the number of entries it contained than in the indexing method later borrowed by other publishers.
The passage says early reviewers found the directory awkward, but later publishers adopted its indexing method by occupation and service. So its importance came from the organizing method it normalized, not from sheer quantity of information.
Why the others are wrong: there is no mention of cheaper printing, the passage stresses innovation rather than reliance on older systems, and it clearly says the directory later proved influential.
Question 21
Answer: A. It introduces evidence suggesting that the explanation in the first sentence may be incomplete.
The first sentence claims late-summer salinity caused the snail decline. The second sentence shows that juvenile survival had already started falling before salinity peaked, suggesting the explanation may be incomplete.
Why the others are wrong: it does not discuss sampling-method changes, does not merely restate the first sentence, and does not fully disprove the original explanation.
Question 22
Answer: B. Text 1 presents a broad tendency, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that can weaken that tendency.
Text 1 presents the general breeding pattern. Text 2 identifies a local condition — late-thawing ponds staying too cold — that weakens that pattern in certain shaded basins.
Why the others are wrong: Text 2 does not simply restate the relationship, does not contradict Text 1 entirely, and is not about an unrelated seasonal phenomenon.
Question 23
Answer: D. Text 2 illustrates, through a specific example, the tension between equal treatment and practical efficiency described in Text 1.
Text 1 explains a general principle about fairness and inefficiency. Text 2 shows that principle in action through a permit-review system where identical treatment caused delays for more complex cases.
Why the others are wrong: A is close, but D is more precise about the fairness-versus-efficiency tension. B is unsupported because the texts do not disagree. C is unsupported because Text 2 does not limit the principle to scarcity.
Question 24
Answer: B. The experiment attracted little attention when first published, and several of its numerical estimates were later revised; however, the calibration device developed for it was later adopted by observatories using telescopes to detect faint light.
The goal is to emphasize that later influence came from a technique rather than from the original experiment’s immediate reception. This choice best highlights that contrast: weak early attention and revised estimates on one side, later usefulness of the calibration device on the other.
Why the others are wrong: the other choices either invent later fame, blur the contrast, or list details without making the rhetorical purpose clear.
Question 25
Answer: A. The final sentence indicates that the reported gains may depend partly on unusually favorable accompanying conditions rather than on the program alone.
The passage reports strong gains, but then notes that all districts also had small seminar sizes, weekly conferences, and summer placement. That suggests the results may depend on those favorable supports as well.
Why the others are wrong: the final sentence does not merely restate the result, introduce a second study, or prove the program fails without every support. It qualifies the result.
Question 26
Answer: A. whose
The sentence needs a possessive relative pronoun to modify both illustrations and index. Whose expresses possession clearly and idiomatically.
Why the others are wrong: which and that do not show possession, and of which is awkward in this structure.
Question 27
Answer: A. The second sentence suggests that the explanation in the first sentence may not fully account for the observed decline.
The first sentence attributes mussel decline mainly to repeated warm-water exposure. The second sentence shows that reproductive decline had already begun before temperatures reached their highest levels. That means the original explanation may not fully account for the observed decline.
Why the others are wrong: the second sentence is not a technical restatement, not a critique of survey methods, and not proof that the original explanation is entirely false. It complicates the explanation.
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Question 1 of 27
1. Question
Although the excavation’s earliest trench collapsed after heavy rainfall, the lead archaeologist argued that the broader research plan remained _____ because key questions could still be investigated through nearby undisturbed areas.
lucid
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provisional
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resilient
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Question 2 of 27
2. Question
A historian notes that the treaty resolved few territorial disputes in the years immediately following its ratification and was often criticized as cumbersome by local administrators. Yet the historian argues that the treaty later proved influential because neighboring governments adopted its procedures for recording land claims, witness testimony, and boundary revisions. According to the historian, the treaty’s enduring significance therefore arose not chiefly from the settlements it produced at first but from the administrative framework it helped establish.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
The passage presents the treaty as celebrated from the beginning because it resolved several long-standing disputes at once.
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The passage argues that the treaty became influential chiefly because it imposed unusually strict penalties on local officials who ignored it.
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The passage claims that the treaty failed because its language was too vague to be enforced anywhere consistently.
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The passage suggests that the treaty’s historical importance lay less in its immediate effect on border disputes than in the record-keeping methods later borrowed by other administrations.
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Question 3 of 27
3. Question
Researchers initially proposed that the decline in dune-grass density resulted primarily from stronger seasonal storms that increased soil erosion. Later root surveys, however, showed that die-off had already accelerated in some plots before erosion rates rose most sharply.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
It provides evidence that the explanation in the first sentence may account for only part of the observed trend.
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It shifts the passage from ecological evidence to criticism of the researchers’ methods.
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It restates the first sentence’s explanation in more technical language.
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It proves that the first sentence’s explanation is entirely false.
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Question 4 of 27
4. Question
Text 1: Entomologists studying several alpine beetle species have found that many populations hatch earlier in years when spring temperatures rise sooner than usual. One explanation is that earlier warming accelerates larval development and advances hatching dates.
Text 2: In several shaded ravines, however, hatching dates shifted only slightly even during unusually warm springs. Researchers studying those sites note that cold runoff from lingering snowfields kept soil temperatures low, weakening the usual relationship between earlier warming and earlier hatching.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 1 presents a broad trend, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that reduces the strength of that trend.
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Text 2 disputes Text 1’s main claim by arguing that temperature has little effect on insect development anywhere.
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Text 1 and Text 2 discuss unrelated biological events that merely occur at similar times of year.
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Text 2 simply gives a more detailed example of the same pattern described in Text 1.
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Question 5 of 27
5. Question
Text 1: Political theorists often argue that policies designed to ensure equal treatment can generate inefficiencies when they are applied uniformly to communities with very different needs. Such tensions do not necessarily show that equal treatment is the wrong goal; rather, they suggest that principles that look straightforward in theory may prove harder to apply well in practice.
Text 2: A county administrator describes a permit-review system that assigned the same filing deadlines to all applicants regardless of project type. Although the rule appeared fair because it treated every applicant according to the same schedule, it caused substantial delays in applications requiring environmental review and expedited relatively simple cases. The administrator argues that the system failed not because fairness was irrelevant but because it ignored meaningful procedural differences.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 2 rejects Text 1’s claim that equal treatment can ever create inefficiency.
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Text 2 narrows Text 1’s claim by showing that it applies only when institutions lack funding.
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Text 1 and Text 2 disagree about whether fairness should remain a guiding principle in public policy.
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Text 2 provides a concrete example that applies the general principle described in Text 1.
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Question 6 of 27
6. Question
A study of accelerated civics courses reported strong gains among students in several midsize districts. The authors note, however, that all of the participating districts also used unusually small discussion sections, weekly tutoring, and diagnostic placement before enrollment.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
To show that the reported gains may depend partly on other unusually favorable conditions
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To argue that the intervention was ineffective unless every listed support was present
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To introduce a second study that overturns the result described in the first sentence
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To restate the first sentence’s finding in more precise and technical language
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Question 7 of 27
7. Question
The manuscript’s preface is missing from the earliest surviving copy; _____, later references to its key terms allow scholars to infer the author’s original distinctions with reasonable confidence.
similarly
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nevertheless
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for example
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therefore
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Question 8 of 27
8. Question
By the time the revised ordinance took effect, each of the municipalities in the study _____ already submitted at least one appeal challenging the earlier reporting requirements.
had
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has
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have
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having
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Question 9 of 27
9. Question
Choose the most effective revision of the sentence so that it is grammatically standard and places the modifying phrase as clearly as possible. Original sentence: Among the surviving notes the editor found a diagram clarifying the argument’s missing step.
Among the surviving notes was found by the editor a diagram clarifying the argument’s missing step.
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The editor found, among the surviving notes, a diagram that clarified the argument’s missing step.
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A diagram clarifying the argument’s missing step was found by the editor among the surviving notes.
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Among the surviving notes, the editor found a diagram that clarified the argument’s missing step.
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Question 10 of 27
10. Question
The later report does not deny the earlier finding; rather, it argues that the finding applies only under more _____ defined conditions than researchers first assumed.
unusually
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especially
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precisely
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merely
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Question 11 of 27
11. Question
Text 1: Historians of administration often note that broad reforms can produce uneven practical effects when subordinate officials interpret the same directive differently. In such cases, the effect of a reform may depend less on its formal wording than on the assumptions, incentives, and habits of the people charged with enforcing it.
Text 2: A historian examining a nineteenth-century customs reform shows that local port officers interpreted the same inspection rule differently: some treated it as a narrow recordkeeping requirement, while others used it to justify broader searches of incoming cargo. The historian argues that the reform’s practical effect varied not because the text changed from port to port but because its meaning did.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 1 uses an archival example to illustrate the general principle introduced in Text 2.
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Text 1 and Text 2 disagree about whether procedural fairness should remain an administrative goal.
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Text 1 presents a broad interpretive problem, whereas Text 2 supplies a specific historical case that exemplifies it.
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Text 2 narrows Text 1’s claim by showing that interpretive conflict occurs only in tax policy.
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Question 12 of 27

12. Question

A museum curator wants to emphasize that the exhibition changed how visitors interpreted everyday objects, not just which objects they saw.

Notes:
1. Early visitors often described the exhibition as confusing.
2. Objects were grouped by use rather than by date or donor.
3. Later museums adopted this grouping strategy.
4. Critics said the arrangement encouraged visitors to compare tools, household items, and ceremonial objects in new ways.

Which choice most effectively uses the notes to accomplish the goal?

Early visitors often found the exhibition confusing, and later museums adopted some of its display ideas, but most reviewers focused primarily on the unusually wide range of objects included in the show rather than on the way those objects were arranged.

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Although some early visitors found the exhibition confusing, later museums adopted its method of grouping objects by use rather than by date or donor, a structure that critics said encouraged new comparisons across everyday and ceremonial items.

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The exhibition included tools, household items, and ceremonial objects and was later imitated by other museums because it contained an unusual number of artifacts from different donors.

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Early visitors described the exhibition as confusing, and critics wrote at length about tools, household items, and ceremonial objects in reviews that appeared in several newspapers.

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Question 13 of 27
13. Question
Although the committee endorsed the fisheries proposal overall, it also noted that several projected benefits depended on migration models whose assumptions had not yet been independently verified, thereby _____ the force of its recommendation.
attenuate
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corroborate
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qualify
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prolong
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Question 14 of 27
14. Question
A historian notes that many officials initially criticized the reform’s reporting forms as redundant and difficult to complete. Yet the historian argues that the reform later proved influential because agencies responsible for schools, courts, and public health borrowed its categories when designing unrelated record systems. According to the historian, the reform’s significance therefore arose not from early praise but from the administrative habits it encouraged long after its introduction.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
The passage suggests that the reform’s long-term influence arose less from its immediate reception than from the reporting framework later borrowed by unrelated institutions.
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The passage argues that the reform succeeded chiefly because it reduced clerical labor in every district where it was adopted.
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The passage claims that the reform failed at first but gained force after courts expanded its legal authority.
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The passage presents the reform as historically unimportant because later administrators rarely cited it by name.
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Question 15 of 27
15. Question
Researchers initially proposed that the decline in a coastal marsh plant resulted primarily from prolonged salt exposure during storm surges. Later root analyses, however, showed that reduced growth had already begun before salt concentrations reached their highest recorded levels.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
It confirms that the causal claim in the first sentence is sufficient by itself.
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It explains why the researchers abandoned the measurement method used in the first sentence.
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It shifts the passage from ecological evidence to a debate about public policy.
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It introduces evidence suggesting that the explanation in the first sentence may be incomplete.
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Question 16 of 27
16. Question
Text 1: Field biologists studying several alpine grasshopper species have found that many populations mature earlier in years when spring temperatures rise sooner than usual. One explanation is that earlier warming accelerates developmental processes that govern molting and adult emergence.
Text 2: In several high-elevation meadows, however, maturation dates shifted only slightly even during unusually warm years. Researchers studying those sites note that persistent late snowmelt delayed the growth of the plants on which juvenile grasshoppers feed, weakening the usual relationship between warmer conditions and earlier maturation.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 2 disputes the main conclusion of Text 1 by rejecting its ecological mechanism.
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Text 1 presents a broad tendency, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that can weaken that tendency.
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Text 2 simply translates the pattern in Text 1 into more technical biological language.
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Text 1 and Text 2 discuss unrelated spring phenomena that only appear similar at first glance.
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Question 17 of 27
17. Question
The author wants to emphasize that the scientist’s later influence came from a technique rather than from the original experiment’s immediate success.
Notes:
1. The first experiment received little attention when published.
2. The scientist developed a calibration method for measuring faint light.
3. Later astronomers used that method in telescope design.
4. The original experiment’s numerical estimates were later revised.
Which choice most effectively uses the notes to accomplish the goal?
The scientist’s first experiment drew little attention when it appeared, and later astronomers revised several of its numerical estimates before discussing the study’s broader implications in their published work.
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The scientist’s first experiment received little attention and its numerical estimates were later revised, but the calibration method developed for it was later used by astronomers designing more sensitive telescopes.
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Later astronomers designed more sensitive telescopes, and the scientist’s first experiment eventually became famous for attracting attention after those instruments were built.
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The scientist published an experiment, made numerical estimates, and developed a calibration method that other astronomers discussed in journals for many years.
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Question 18 of 27
18. Question
Because the revised protocol required _____ manual corrections, analysts were able to spend more time checking the cases that remained ambiguous.
fewer
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less
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much
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amount
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Question 19 of 27
19. Question
Because the committee had not yet received the final seismic readings from two of the deepest monitoring sites, its hazard estimate remained necessarily _____.
restrained
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provisional
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intrinsic
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opaque
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Question 20 of 27
20. Question
A print historian notes that early reviewers often complained that the directory’s layout was awkward and that its headings were less intuitive than those of competing reference books. Yet the historian argues that the directory later proved highly influential because other publishers adopted its practice of indexing entries by occupation and service rather than by surname alone. According to the historian, the directory’s enduring importance therefore arose not chiefly from the quantity of information it contained but from the organizing method it helped normalize.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
The passage suggests that the directory’s lasting significance lay less in the number of entries it contained than in the indexing method later borrowed by other publishers.
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The passage argues that the directory became influential chiefly because it was printed more cheaply than competing reference works.
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The passage claims that the directory’s editors resisted innovation and relied almost entirely on older classification schemes.
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The passage presents the directory as historically minor because early reviewers found it difficult to use.
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Question 21 of 27
21. Question
Researchers initially proposed that the decline in estuary snail populations resulted primarily from increased salinity during late-summer evaporation. Later enclosure experiments, however, showed that juvenile survival had already begun falling before salinity reached its highest measured levels.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
It introduces evidence suggesting that the explanation in the first sentence may be incomplete.
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It explains why the researchers changed their sampling method midway through the study.
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It restates the first sentence’s claim in more technical language.
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It proves that the first sentence’s explanation is completely wrong.
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Question 22 of 27
22. Question
Text 1: Biologists studying several alpine toad species have found that many populations begin breeding earlier in years when spring temperatures rise sooner than usual. One explanation is that earlier warming accelerates the physiological changes that prepare adults for reproduction.
Text 2: In several shaded basins, however, breeding dates shifted only slightly even during unusually warm years. Researchers studying those sites note that late-thawing ponds remained too cold for egg-laying long after surrounding air temperatures rose, weakening the usual relationship between earlier warming and earlier breeding.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 2 simply restates the relationship described in Text 1 with a more technical explanation.
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Text 1 presents a broad tendency, whereas Text 2 identifies a local condition that can weaken that tendency.
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Text 2 contradicts Text 1 by showing that earlier warming has no effect on breeding timing anywhere.
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Text 1 and Text 2 address separate seasonal phenomena that only appear related.
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Question 23 of 27
23. Question
Text 1: Political theorists often note that rules intended to ensure fairness can create inefficiencies when they are applied uniformly to groups whose circumstances differ substantially. Such tensions do not necessarily show that fairness is the wrong aim; rather, they suggest that principles that appear straightforward in theory may prove more difficult to implement wisely in practice.
Text 2: A regional planner describes a permit system that reviewed all applications on the same timetable regardless of complexity. Although the system appeared fair because every applicant faced identical deadlines, it delayed large infrastructure proposals requiring environmental review while moving simpler applications through quickly. The planner argues that the system’s weakness lay not in its commitment to fairness but in its failure to account for meaningful procedural differences.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
Text 2 offers a concrete case that applies the abstract principle described in Text 1.
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Text 1 and Text 2 disagree about whether fairness should remain an institutional goal.
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Text 2 narrows Text 1’s principle by showing that it applies only when public resources are scarce.
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Text 2 illustrates, through a specific example, the tension between equal treatment and practical efficiency described in Text 1.
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Question 24 of 27
24. Question
A science writer wants to emphasize that the experiment’s later influence came from a measuring technique rather than from the immediate reception of its original findings.
Notes:
1. The experiment attracted little attention when first published.
2. The researcher designed a calibration device for detecting weak light.
3. Later observatories adopted the device in telescope work.
4. Several of the original numerical estimates were later revised.
Which choice most effectively uses the notes to accomplish this goal?
The original experiment received little attention when it was first published, but later observatories became interested in it mainly because its numerical estimates could be revised and compared with newer telescope data.
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The experiment attracted little attention when first published, and several of its numerical estimates were later revised; however, the calibration device developed for it was later adopted by observatories using telescopes to detect faint light.
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The researcher designed a calibration device for detecting weak light, and later observatories adopted it because the original experiment had already become one of the best-known studies of its era.
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Although the experiment was published with several numerical estimates, later observatories revised those estimates and discussed the calibration device in technical journals.
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Question 25 of 27
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A study of accelerated economics seminars reported strong gains among students in several suburban districts. The authors note, however, that all of the participating districts also required small seminar sizes, weekly conferences, and summer placement before enrollment.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
The final sentence indicates that the reported gains may depend partly on unusually favorable accompanying conditions rather than on the program alone.
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The final sentence simply restates the earlier result in more technical language.
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The final sentence introduces a second study that directly contradicts the first.
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The final sentence shows that the program was ineffective unless every district used the same support structure.
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Question 26 of 27
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The reviewer praised a field guide whose illustrations were exceptionally detailed but whose index omitted several of the regional species discussed in the introduction.
whose
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Question 27 of 27
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Researchers initially proposed that the reduction in a coastal mussel population resulted primarily from repeated exposure to unusually warm water. Later spawning surveys, however, showed that reproductive decline had already begun before the highest temperature readings in the data set occurred.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
The second sentence suggests that the explanation in the first sentence may not fully account for the observed decline.
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It restates the first sentence’s explanation in more specialized scientific language.
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It shifts the passage from ecological evidence to criticism of survey methods.
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It demonstrates that the original explanation is entirely false.
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