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SAT PRACTICE TEST I

STRATEGY DIAGNOSTIC TEST

1. The value of 17 × 98 + 17 × 2 =
(A) 1,550 (B) 1,600 (C) 1,700 (D) 1,800 (E) 1,850


2. How did you get your answer?
(A) I multiplied 17 × 98 and added that to 17 × 2.
(B) I approximated and found the closest match in the choices.
(C) I factored 17 to get 17(98 + 2).
(D) I guessed.
(E) By none of the above methods.


MATH I

 3. If 2x + 3y = 4 and y = 2, find the value of x.
(A) +2
(B) +1
(C)  0
(D) —1
(E) —2

4. Sarah is twice as old as John. Six years ago, Sarah was four times as old as John was then In years, how old is John now?                        

(A)  3
(B)  9
(C)  18
(D)  20
(E)  Cannot be determined



(Note: Figure is not drawn to scale.)

5.  The area of the above figure ABCD

(A)  is 36
(B)  is 108
(C)  is 156
(D)  is 1872
(E)  Cannot be determined
CRITICAL READING


Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate choice:

1.            The instructor displayed extreme stubbornness; although he ______ the logic of the student’s argument, he­­­_________ to acknowledge her conclusion as correct.
(A)          accepted . . . refused
(B)          concluded . . . consented
(C)          denounced . . . declined
(D)          asserted . . . acceded
(E)          rejected . . . preferred


2.            In spite of the______ of his presentation, many  people were ______with the speaker’s concepts and ideas.
(A)          interest . . . enthralled
(B)          power . . . taken
(C)          intensity . . . shocked
(D)          greatness . . . gratified
(E)          strength . . . bored


READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage, then answer the questions:

 Sometimes the meaning of glowing water is ominous. Off the Pacific Coast of North America, it may mean that the sea is filled with a minute plant that contains a poison of strange and terrible virulence. About four days after this minute plant comes to alter the coastal plankton, some of the fishes and shellfish in the vicinity become toxic. This is because in their normal feeding, they have strained the poisonous plankton out of the water.

3.            Fish and shellfish become toxic when they
(A)          swim in poisonous water
(B)          feed on poisonous plants or animals
(C)          change their feeding habits
(D)          give off a strange glow
(E)          take strychnine into their systems


4.            In the context of the passage, the word virulence in line 4 means
(A)          strangeness
(B)          color
(C)          calamity
(D)          potency
(E)          powerful odor


5.            The paragraph preceding the one in the passage most probably discussed the
(A)          phenomena of the Pacific coastline
(B)          poisons that affect man
(C)          toxic plants in the sea
(D)          characteristics of plankton
(E)          phenomena of the sea

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Culled from Gruber Complete SAT guide 2009


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