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

Section 41
Practice Test Ten
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Directions: The passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related
passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of
what is stated or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be provided.
Questions 9-10 are based on the following passage.
San Francisco's cable cars get their name from
the long, heavy cable that runs beneath the streets
along which the cars travel. This cable system
Line resembles a giant laundry clothesline with a pul-
(5) ley at each end. Electricity turns the wheels of
the pulleys, which in turn make the cable move.
Under its floor, each car has a powerful claw that
grips the cable when the car is ready to move, and
releases the cable when the car needs to stop. The
(10) cars themselves are not powered and don't generate
any locomotion. Instead, they simply cling
to the cable, which pulls them up and down San
Francisco's steep hills.
9. The author includes the image of a laundry
clothesline in order to
(A) amuse the reader
(B) provide helpful visual imagery
(C) compare the everyday importance of cable
cars and laundry
(D) show the extreme simplicity of the cable's
mechanism
(E) stress that clotheslines also work on a pulley
system
10. Which of the following questions is answered by
the passage?
(A) What provides the energy to turn the wheels
of a common laundry clothesline?
(B) How is the pulley system used to steer the
cars from one street to another?
(C) How long has the cable car system been in
use?
(D) Which component of the cable car system
provides the force for movement?
(E) What special challenges for the cable cars are
presented by San Francisco's steep hills?
Question 11-12 are based on the following passage.
Though the detective story began with the work
of Edgar Allan Poe and Emile Gaboriau, Arthur
Conan Doyle must be credited with creating the
Line most popular detective in the history of the genre.
(5) Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the novel
A Study in Scarlet (1887). His sharp wits, keen
eyes, and compelling personality made him an
overnight sensation. In fact, when Doyle pushed
Holmes over a cliff to his death in an 1893 story,
( 10) readers were so outraged that the writer was
forced to resurrect his hero. Doyle's blueprint of
an all-knowing protagonist, tantalizing clues, and
a tidy, moralistic conclusion has since become the
foundation of an entire literary tradition.
11. According to the passage, Doyle is unlike Poe and
Gaboriau in that Doyle
(A) invented the detective story genre
(B) created the most popular fictional detective
(C) used tantalizing clues in his stories
(D) created a compelling protagonist
(E) wrote popular novels
12. The description of the "blueprint" (line 11) serves
to convey
(A) the care with which Doyle's stories were crafted
(B) that Doyle's stories are quite enjoyable
(C) that Doyle's work was too formulaic
(D) the extent to which Doyle was influenced by
Poe and Gaboriau
(E) that the Holmes stories served as a precedent
for the detective genre
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