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

Section 41
Practice Test Eleven
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Directions: The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answer for each question that follows. Some questions are about particular
sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask
you to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the conventions of standard written
English.
Questions 30-35 are based on the following passage.
(1) At the bowling alley, a large wooden placard
declared "Brookfield Alley's Best Bowler of the Year."
(2) When asked whose picture was placed below it, the
owner said they always placed the picture of the person
who scored the highest score in a single game during
the previous year. (3) When asked who "they" was, he
answered, "The owner of the bowling alley." ( 4) When
asked who that was, the answer was "me." (5) So, basically,
I determined, the owner of the bowling alley
chose the bowler of the year.
(6) My brother, Bill, had his picture there one year.
(7) However, I am a better bowler than my brother. (8)
He had a lucky game. (9) Now, don't get me wrong.
(IO) Bill is a good bowler. (11) That high game was a
269. (12) That is a good score in anyone's book. (13)
But, it was a fluke. (14) Bill got lucky. (15) He bowled
a bunch of strikes in a row. (16) He got on a roll. (17)
His success seemed to breed more success in each succeeding
frame. (18) He kept on getting them. (19)
He messed up in the 7th frame, but then pulled out
a spare. (20) On the next frame, he got a strike again.
(21) The owner started watching. (22) The game got
verified. (23) Bill became the "Bowler of the Year."
(24) For Christmas that year, my parents had the
clipping from the newspaper framed. (25) I cringed
when I saw that. (26) Bill was not the "Bowler of the
Year." (27) He wasn't even the bowler of that night.
(28) We had bowled three games. (29) I had won the
first two games handily. (30) But, then Bill had his
streak ofluck. (31) And, like I said before, the owner
noticed. (32) So, good ole Bill became bowler of the
year. (33) Baloney!
30. Based on the first paragraph, is the use of the word
they in sentence 2 accurately used and why or why
not?
(A) It is used accurately because it is a report
of the owner's words when he answered a
question.
(B) It is used inaccurately because the author of
the text has turned the owner of the bowling
alley into a they.
(C) It is not used accurately because one should
never use a pronoun without its antecedent
in the sentence.
(D) It is used correctly because they refers to the
author and his brother.
(E) It should be them.
31. If one wanted to combine sentence 11 and sentence
12, which would be the best way to do so?
(A) That high game was a 269; and that is a high
score in anyone's book.
(B) That high score was a 296, and that was a
high score for anyone's book.
(C) That high game was a 269, and that is a high
score in anyone's book.
(D) Because 269 is a high score in anyone's book,
that was a high game.
(E) That high game was a 269, but that was a
high score in anyone's book.
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