Practice Test 7 - SAT Suite of Assessments

1 2016 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Test 7#Make time to take the Practice s one of the best ways to get ready for the you ve taken the Practice test, score it right away at begins on the next Test65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After readingeach passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the passage is adapted from George Eliot,Silas published in 1861. Silas was a weaver and anotorious miser, but then the gold he had hoarded wasstolen. Shortly after, Silas adopted a young child, Eppie, thedaughter of an impoverished woman who had the gold which needed nothing, and mustbe worshipped in close-locked solitude which washidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the songof birds, and started to no human tones Eppie was acreature of endless claims and ever-growing desires,seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, andliving movements; making trial of everything, withtrust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness inall eyes that looked on her.

2 The gold had kept histhoughts in an ever-repeated circle, leading tonothing beyond itself; but Eppie was an objectcompacted of changes and hopes that forced histhoughts onward, and carried them far away fromtheir old eager pacing towards the same blanklimit carried them away to the new things thatwould come with the coming years, when Eppiewould have learned to understand how her fatherSilas cared for her; and made him look for images ofthat time in the ties and charities that bound togetherthe families of his neighbors. The gold had asked thathe should sit weaving longer and longer, deafenedand blinded more and more to all things except themonotony of his loom and the repetition of his web;but Eppie called him away from his weaving, andmade him think all its pauses a holiday, reawakeninghis senses with her fresh life, even to the oldwinter-flies that came crawling forth in the earlyspring sunshine, and warming him into joy becauseshehad when the sunshine grew strong and lasting,so that the buttercups were thick in the meadows,Silas might be seen in the sunny mid-day, or in thelate afternoon when the shadows were lengtheningunder the hedgerows, strolling out with uncoveredhead to carry Eppie beyond the Stone-pits to wherethe flowers grew, till they reached some favorite bankwhere he could sit down, while Eppie toddled topluck the flowers, and make remarks to the wingedthings that murmured happily above the brightpetals, calling Dad-dad s attention continually bybringing him the flowers.

3 Then she would turn herear to some sudden bird-note, and Silas learned toplease her by making signs of hushed stillness, thatthey might listen for the note to come again: so thatwhen it came, she set up her small back and laughedwith gurgling triumph. Sitting on the banks in thisway, Silas began to look for the once familiar herbsagain; and as the leaves, with their unchanged outlineand markings, lay on his palm, there was a sense ofcrowding remembrances from which he turned awaytimidly, taking refuge in Eppie s little world, that laylightly on his enfeebled copying or reuse of any part of this page is the child s mind was growing into knowledge,his mind was growing into memory: as her lifeunfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold narrowprison, was unfolding too, and trembling graduallyinto full was an influence which must gather force withevery new year: the tones that stirred Silas heartgrew articulate, and called for more distinct answers.

4 Shapes and sounds grew clearer for Eppie s eyes andears, and there was more that Dad-dad wasimperatively required to notice and account , by the time Eppie was three years old, shedeveloped a fine capacity for mischief, and fordevising ingenious ways of being troublesome, whichfound much exercise, not only for Silas patience, butfor his watchfulness and penetration. Sorely was poorSilas puzzled on such occasions by the incompatibledemands of choice best describes a major theme of thepassage?A)The corrupting influence of a materialisticsocietyB) The moral purity of young childrenC) The bittersweet brevity of childhood na vet D) The restorative power of parental love2As compared with Silas s gold, Eppie is portrayed ashaving moreA) ) ) ) self statement best describes a technique thenarratoruses to represent Silas s character before headopted Eppie?A) The narrator emphasizes Silas s former obsessionwith wealth by depicting his gold as requiringcertain behaviors on his ) The narrator underscores Silas s former greed bydescribing his gold as seeming to reproduce onits ) The narrator hints at Silas s former antisocialattitude by contrasting his present behaviortoward his neighbors with his past behaviortoward ) The narrator demonstrates Silas s former lack ofself-awareness by implying that he is unable torecall life before narrator uses the phrase making trial ofeverything (line 7) to present Eppie asA) ) ) ) to the narrator, one consequence of SilasadoptingEppie is that heA) has renounced all desire for ) better understands his place in ) seems more accepting of help from ) looks forward to a different kind of copying or reuse of any part of this page is choice provides the best evidence for theanswer to the previous question?

5 A) Lines 9-11 ( The )B) Lines 11-16 ( but )C) Lines 41-43 ( )D) Lines 61-63 ( )7 What function does the second paragraph(lines30-52) serve in the passage as a whole?A) It presents the particular moment at which Silasrealized that Eppie was changing ) It highlights Silas s love for Eppie by depictingthe sacrifices that he makes for ) It illustrates the effect that Eppie has on Silas bydescribing the interaction between ) It reveals a significant alteration in therelationship between Silas and describing the relationship between Eppie andSilas,the narrator draws a connection betweenEppie sA) physical vulnerability and Silas s ) expanding awareness and Silas s increasingengagement with ) boundless energy and Silas s insatiable desire ) physical growth and Silas s painful perception ofhis own choice provides the best evidence for theanswerto the previous question?A) Lines 1-9 ( )B) Lines 30-41 ( And )C) Lines 46-48 ( )D) Lines 53-57 ( As )10As used in line 65, fine most nearly meansA) ) ) ) copying or reuse of any part of this page is 11-21 are based on the followingpassage and supplementary passage is adapted from David Rotman, HowTechnology Is Destroying Jobs.

6 2013 by MIT business scholars Erik Brynjolfsson andAndrew McAfee have argued that impressiveadvances in computer technology from improvedindustrial robotics to automated translationservices are largely behind the sluggishemployment growth of the last 10 to 15 years. Evenmore ominous for workers, they foresee dismalprospects for many types of jobs as these powerfulnew technologies are increasingly adopted not onlyin manufacturing, clerical, and retail work but inprofessions such as law, financial services, education,and robots, automation, and software can replacepeople might seem obvious to anyone who s workedin automotive manufacturing or as a travel agent. ButBrynjolfsson and McAfee s claim is more troublingand controversial. They believe that rapidtechnological change has been destroying jobs fasterthan it is creating them, contributing to thestagnation of median income and the growth ofinequality in the United States.

7 And, they suspect,something similar is happening in othertechnologically advanced evidence, Brynjolfsson and McAfee point to achart that only an economist could love. Ineconomics, productivity the amount of economicvalue created for a given unit of input, such as anhour of labor is a crucial indicator of growth andwealth creation. It is a measure of progress. On thechart Brynjolfsson likes to show, separate linesrepresent productivity and total employment in theUnited States. For years after World War II, thetwo lines closely tracked each other, with increases injobs corresponding to increases in productivity. Thepattern is clear: as businesses generated more valuefrom their workers, the country as a whole becamericher, which fueled more economic activity andcreated even more jobs. Then, beginning in 2000, thelines diverge; productivity continues to rise robustly,but employment suddenly wilts. By 2011, asignificant gap appears between the two lines,showing economic growth with no parallel increasein job creation.

8 Brynjolfsson and McAfee call it the great decoupling. And Brynjolfsson says he isconfident that technology is behind both the healthygrowth in productivity and the weak growth in s a startling assertion because it threatens thefaith that many economists place in technologicalprogress. Brynjolfsson and McAfee still believe thattechnology boosts productivity and makes societieswealthier, but they think that it can also have a darkside: technological progress is eliminating the needfor many types of jobs and leaving the typical workerworse off than before. Brynjolfsson can point to asecond chart indicating that median income is failingto rise even as the gross domestic product soars. It sthe great paradox of our era, he says. Productivityis at record levels, innovation has never been faster,and yet at the same time, we have a falling medianincome and we have fewer jobs. People are fallingbehind because technology is advancing so fast andour skills and organizations aren t keeping up.

9 While technological changes can be painful forworkers whose skills no longer match the needs ofemployers, Lawrence Katz, a Harvard economist,says that no historical pattern shows these shiftsleading to a net decrease in jobs over an extendedperiod. Katz has done extensive research on howtechnological advances have affected jobs over thelast few centuries describing, for example, howhighly skilled artisans in the mid-19th century weredisplaced by lower-skilled workers in it can take decades for workers to acquire theexpertise needed for new types of employment, hesays, we never have run out of jobs. There is nolong-term trend of eliminating work for people. Overthe long term, employment rates are fairlystable. People have always been able to create newjobs. People come up with new things to do. Still, Katz doesn t dismiss the notion that there issomething different about today s digitaltechnologies something that could affect an evenbroader range of work.

10 The question, he says, iswhether economic history will serve as a copying or reuse of any part of this page is Will the job disruptions caused by technologybe temporary as the workforce adapts, or will we seea science-fiction scenario in which automatedprocesses and robots with superhuman skills takeover a broad swath of human tasks? Though Katzexpects the historical pattern to hold, it is genuinelya question, he says. If technology disrupts enough,who knows what will happen? Figure 1 Percentage of 1947 levels1987300100500200400199720072013194 71957 United States Productivity and Employment(indexed: 1947 = 100)19671977productivityemploymentFigure 2 Output per worker(2002 values = 100)Output per Employed Person in Manufacturingas Factories Have Become More AutomatedUnited copying or reuse of any part of this page is main purpose of the passage is toA) examine the role of technology in workers livesduring the last ) advocate for better technology to enhanceworkplace ) argue for changes in how technology is deployedin the ) assess the impact of advancements in technologyon overall job to Brynjolfsson and McAfee,advancements in technology since approximately theyear 2000 have resulted inA) low job growth in the United ) global workplace ) more skilled laborers in the United ) no global creation of new choice provides the best evidence for theanswer to the previous question?