The SAT Practice Test 9 - SAT Suite of Assessments

1 The SAT Practice Test #9 Make time to take the Practice is one of the best ways to get ready for the you have taken the Practice test, score it right away at PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT begins on the next this page is 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 Amy Tan,The Bonesetter sDaughter.

2 2001 by Amy last, Old Widow Lau was done haggling withthe driver and we stepped inside Father s shop. It wasnorth-facing, quite dim inside, and perhaps this waswhy Father did not see us at first. He was busy with aLine5customer, a man whowas distinguished-looking, likethe scholars of two decades before. The two menwere bent over a glass case, discussing the differentqualities of inksticks. Big Uncle welcomed us andinvited us to be seated. From his formal tone, I knew10he did not recognizewho we were. So I called hisname in a shy voice. And he squinted at me, thenlaughed and announced our arrival to Little Uncle,who apologized many times for not rushing oversooner to greet us.

3 They rushed us to be seated at one15of two tea tablesfor customers. Old Widow Laurefused their invitation three times, exclaiming thatmy father and uncles must be too busy for made weak efforts to leave. On the fourthinsistence, we finally sat. Then Little Uncle brought20us hot tea andsweet oranges, as well as bamboolatticework fans with which to cool tried to notice everything so I could later tellGaoLing what I had seen, and tease out her envy. Thefloors of the shop were of dark wood, polished and25clean, no dirty footprints,even though this wasduring the dustiest part of the summer. And alongthe walls were display cases made of wood and glass was very shiny and not one pane wasbroken.

4 Within those glass cases were our silk-30wrapped boxes, all ourhard work. They looked somuch nicer than they had in the ink-making studioat Immortal Heart saw that Father had opened several of the set sticks and cakes and other shapes on a silk35cloth covering a glasscase that served as a table onwhich he and the customer leaned. First he pointedto a stick with a top shaped like a fairy boat and saidwith graceful importance, Your writing will flow assmoothly as a keel cutting through a glassy lake. 40He picked up abird shape: Your mind will soar intothe clouds of higher thought. He waved toward arow of ink cakes embellished with designs of peoniesand bamboo: Your ledgers will blossom intoabundance while bamboo surrounds your quiet45mind.

5 As he said this,Precious Auntie came back intomind. I was remembering how she taught me thateverything, even ink, had a purpose and a meaning:Good ink cannot be the quick kind, ready to pour out50of a bottle. Youcan never be an artist if your workcomes without effort. That is the problem of modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. Yousimply write what is swimming on the top of yourbrain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead55leaves, and mosquito when you push aninkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step tocleansing your mind and your heart. You push andyou ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is inmy heart that matches my mind? copying or reuse of any part of this page is this page is remembered this, and yet that day in the inkshop, I listened to what Father was saying, and hiswords became far more important than anythingPrecious Auntie had thought.

6 Look here, Fathersaid to his customer, and I looked. He held up an65inkstick and rotated it inthe light. See? It s the righthue, purple-black, not brown or gray like the cheapbrands you might find down the street. And listen tothis. And I heard a sound as clean and pure as asmall silver bell. The high-pitched tone tells you that70the soot is very fine,as smooth as the sliding banks ofold rivers. And the scent can you smell the balanceof strength and delicacy, the musical notes of theink s perfume? Expensive, and everyone who seesyou using it will know that it was well worth the high75price. I was very proud tohear Father speak of ourfamily s ink this choice best summarizes the passage?

7 A)A character s arrival at her family s ink shopsparks fond memories of her favorite ) A character s surprise visit leads to a happyreunion at her family s ink ) A character comes to understand her father sambitions while visiting her family s ink ) A character s visit to her family s ink shopdeepens her appreciation of her family s main theme of the passage is thatA)family relationships should be ) quality is achieved through deliberate ) hard work results in material ) creativity needs to be expressed the passage, the narrator is portrayed assomeonewho isA) reserved around unfamiliar ) attuned to her immediate ) sympathetic to the needs of ) anxious about her can be most reasonably inferred from the passagethatOld Widow Lau s reluctance to stay for tea isA) feigned, because she is not genuinely firm in ) inconsiderate, because the family has beenplanning her ) appropriate, because the shop is unusually ) ill-advised, because she is exhausted from choice provides the best evidence for theanswerto the previous question?

8 A) Lines 1-4 ( At )B) Lines 11-15 ( And )C) Lines 15-18 ( )D) Lines 19-21 ( )6 The narrator indicates that the contrast between theink-makingstudio at Immortal Heart village and herfamily s ink shop is that the ink shopA) displays the family s ink more ) is more conveniently located for the ) provides greater individual attention ) offers a larger space for presenting copying or reuse of any part of this page is this page is on the artistic philosophy expressed in thefourth paragraph (lines 46-59), it is reasonable toinfer that Precious Auntie would consider a hastilywritten first draft of a story to beA) emotionally raw and ) creatively satisfying for the ) essentially worthless in and of ) inappropriately analytical for a piece of choice provides the best evidence for theanswerto the previous question?

9 A) Lines 46-48 ( As )B) Lines 49-50 ( )C) Lines 52-55 ( You )D) Lines 57-59 ( You )9As used in line 59, matches most nearly meansA)competes ) corresponds ) runs counter ) treats used in line 68, clean most nearly meansA) ) ) ) copying or reuse of any part of this page is this page is 11-20 are based on the followingpassage and supplementary passage is adapted from How the Web AffectsMemory. 2011 by Harvard Magazine engines have changed the way we use theInternet, putting vast sources of information just afew clicks away. But Harvard professor of psychologyDaniel Wegner s recent research proves thatLine5websites and the Internet are changingmuchmore than technology itself.

10 They are changing theway our memories s latest study, Google Effects onMemory: Cognitive Consequences of Having10 Information at Our Fingertips, shows that whenpeople have access to search engines, they rememberfewer facts and less information because they knowthey can rely on search as a readily , the senior authorof the study, believesthe new findings show that the Internet has becomepart of a transactive memory source, a method bywhich our brains compartmentalize hypothesized by Wegner in 1985, transactive20memory exists in manyforms, as when a husbandrelies on his wife to remember a relative s birthday. [It is] this whole network of memory where youdon t have to remember everything in the worldyourself, he says.