12.Practice.Tests.for.the.SAT_2015-2016_1128p

12 Practice Tests for the SAT
Practice Test Twelve Answers and Explanations I
1087
the semicolon splice, which is only correct when used to
combine two independent clauses.
32. A
Difficulty: Low
This question type requires you to determine how sentence
8 relates to the rest of the paragraph. Sentence 7 discusses
the customs and traditional ideas of a culture that are
embedded in its language. Sentence 8 gives three examples
of these customs and ideas. Choice (A) correctly relates
the two sentences. Choices (B), (C), (D), and (E) do not
properly relate sentences 7 and 8. Additionally, (D) and (E)
create sentence fragments by making the sentence into a
dependent clause.
33. D
Difficulty: Low
Unless a sentence clearly references more than one time
frame, verb tenses should remain consistent. Choice (D)
corrects the sentence's inconsistent verb tense usage.
Choices (B) and (E) do not address the error. Choice (C)
misuses the semicolon splice, which is only correct when
used to combine two independent clauses.
34. c
Difficulty: High
Eliminating redundant phrases will reduce wordiness. Using
both also and as well as is redundant, and since both
clauses have the same subject, they are . .. working . ..
at times is unnecessary as well. Choice (C) reduces the
wordiness without introducing any additional errors. Choice
(B) replaces the conjunction and with a semicolon splice,
which is not incorrect but does not significantly reduce the
wordiness. Choice (D) creates a sentence fragment made
up of two subordinate clauses. Choice (E) is somewhat
shorter than the original, but not as concise as (C).
35. E
Difficulty: High
Use your Reading Comprehension skills to answer
Strengthen Argument questions. Although the writer
indicates that the preservation of cultural ideas is one of the
most important reasons for working to preserve endangered
languages, she does not provide any specific examples.
Choice (E) would significantly strengthen her argument.
Choice (A) would weaken the writer's argument. Choice (B)
would be interesting, but it would not add anything to the
writer's argument. Choice (C) is out of scope; the argument
concerns the necessity, not the methodology, of preserving
these languages. More examples of the writer's opinion, as
(D) suggests, would not strengthen her argument.
SECTION 7
1. D
Difficulty: Low
Start with the first blank. Vaccines can either be given or
not given. If your prediction for the first blank is giving, then
the second blank should be positive in order to support
this answer choice. A good prediction for the second blank
would then be successful at providing protection.
Choice (A), is the opposite of the prediction. Choice (B),
unsuccessful in, is the opposite of the prediction for the
second blank. Choice (C), reconstituting, or restoring,
doses of the vaccine does not fit. Vaccines are not restored
(although they may sometimes have to be readministered).
Choice (D) matches. As for (E), both choices do not work;
giving someone a dose of vaccine is not the same as
disseminating, or spreading it widely. Unverified for is the
opposite of the prediction.
2. B
Difficulty: Low
If a boat is sinking, what condition is it in? Regarding the
first blank, the crew would be attempting to do what with
the equipment that would otherwise be lost? A prediction
for the blanks: the crew would be trying to save what
equipment they could off of the struggling boat.
Choice (A), qualifying, or preparing, the equipment is not
the same as recovering it. Although the boat may have
been obsolete, or outdated, this does not describe the
manner in which it sank or even why it sank. Choice (B) is
the correct answer. In (C), the boat was defunct (no longer
functioning), but the crew would not be exacerbating the
equipment, or making it worse. As to (D), these words
do not match the predictions; the crew would not try to
revitalize equipment, and a sinking diveboat is certainly
not prosperous. In (E), the first choice is too extreme.
Commandeer means more along the lines of seizing or
confiscating and suggests taking something against the will