Practice Test 8 - Khan Academy

1 Practice Test #8 2016 The college board . college board , SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the college 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).

2 Questions 1-10 are based on the passage is from Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,The Angel s Game. 2008 by Dragonworks, Translation 2009 byLucia Graves. The narrator, a writer, recalls his childhood inearly twentieth-century then my only friends were made of paperand ink. At school I had learned to read and writelong before the other children. Where my schoolfriends saw notches of ink on incomprehensiblepages, I saw light, streets, and people. Words and themystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and Isaw in them a key with which I could unlock aboundless world, a safe haven from that home, thosestreets, and those troubled days in which even Icould sense that only a limited fortune awaited father didn t like to see books in the was something about them apart from theletters he could not decipher that offended used to tell me that as soon as I was ten he wouldsend me off to work and that I d better get rid of allmy scatterbrained ideas if I didn t want to end up aloser, a nobody.

3 I used to hide my books under themattress and wait for him to go out or fall asleep sothat I could read. Once he caught me reading at nightand flew into a rage. He tore the book from myhands and flung it out of the window. If I catch you wasting electricity again, readingall this nonsense, you ll be sorry. My father was not a miser and, despite thehardships we suffered, whenever he could he gave mea few coins so that I could buy myself some treats likethe other children. He was convinced that I spentthem on licorice sticks, sunflower seeds, or sweets,but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed,and when I d collected four or five reales I d secretlyrush out to buy myself a favorite place in the whole city was theSempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Ana.

4 Itsmelled of old paper and dust and it was mysanctuary, my refuge. The bookseller would let me siton a chair in a corner and read any book I liked tomy heart s content. He hardly ever allowed me to payfor the books he placed in my hands, but when hewasn t looking I d leave the coins I d managed tocollect on the counter before I left. It was only smallchange if I d had to buy a book with that pittance, Iwould probably have been able to afford only abooklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for meto leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight onmy soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayedthere Christmas Sempere gave me the best gift Ihave ever received.

5 It was an old volume, read andexperienced to the full. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, I readon the was aware that Sempere knew a few authors whofrequented his establishment and, judging by the carewith which he handled the volume, I thoughtperhaps this Mr. Dickens was one of them. A friend of yours? A lifelong friend. And from now on, he s yourfriend too. copying or reuse of any part of this page is afternoon I took my new friend home,hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldn tsee it. It was a rainy winter, with days as gray as lead,and I readGreat Expectationsabout nine times,partly because I had no other book at hand, partlybecause I did not think there could be a better one inthe whole world and I was beginning to suspect thatMr.

6 Dickens had written it just for me. Soon I wasconvinced that I didn t want to do anything else inlife but learn to do what Mr. Dickens had the course of the passage, the main focus shiftsfromaA) general discussion of the narrator s love ofreading to a portrayal of an influential ) depiction of the narrator s father to anexamination of an author with whom thenarrator becomes ) symbolic representation of a skill the narratorpossesses to an example of its ) tale about the hardships of the narrator schildhood to an analysis of the effects of main purpose of lines 1-10 ( )is toA) introduce the characters who play a part in thenarrator s ) list the difficult conditions the narrator enduredin )

7 Describe the passion that drives the actions thenarrator ) depict the narrator s aspirations before he which of the following statements about hisfatherwould the narrator most likely agree?A) He lacked affection for the ) He disliked any unnecessary use of ) He would not have approved of Sempere s ) He objected to the writings of Charles choice provides the best evidence for theanswerto the previous question?A) Lines 24-27 ( My )B) Lines 35-37 ( The )C) Lines 37-38 ( He )D) Lines 59-61 ( That )5It can reasonably be inferred from the passage thatthemain reason that the narrator considersGreatExpectationsto be the best gift he ever received isbecauseA) reading the book convinced him that he wantedto be a ) he d only ever been given sweets and snacks asgifts in the ) the gift meant that Sempere held him in ) Sempere was a friend of the book s choice provides the best evidence for theanswerto the previous question?

8 A) Lines 38-40 ( )B) Lines 48-49 ( It )C) Lines 52-55 ( I )D) Lines 66-68 ( ) copying or reuse of any part of this page is narrator indicates that he pays SempereA)less than Sempere expects him to pay forthe ) nothing, because Sempere won t take his ) the money he makes selling sweets to the ) much less for the books than they are used in line 44, weight most nearly meansA) ) ) ) word friend is used twice in lines 57-58 toA)underline the importance of the narrator sconnection to ) stress how friendships helped the narrator dealwith his difficult home ) emphasize the emotional connection Semperefeels to ) imply that the narrator s sentiments caused himto make an irrational statement best characterizes the relationshipbetweenSempere and Charles Dickens?

9 A) Sempere models his own writing afterDickens s ) Sempere is an avid admirer of Dickens s ) Sempere feels a personal connection to details ofDickens s ) Sempere considers himself to be Dickens s mostappreciative 11-21 are based on the followingpassage and supplementary passage is adapted from Jeffrey Mervis, Why NullResults Rarely See the Light of Day. 2014 by AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of question of what to do with nullresults when researchers fail to see an effect thatshould be detectable has long been hotly debatedamong those conducting medical trials, where theresults can have a big impact on lives and corporatebottom lines.

10 More recently, the debate has spread tothe social and behavioral sciences, which also havethe potential to sway public and social were little hard data, however, on how often orwhy null results were squelched. Yes, it s true thatnull results are not as exciting, political scientistGary King of Harvard University says. But I suspectanother reason they are rarely published is that thereare many, many ways to produce null results bymessing up. So they are much harder to interpret. In a recent study, Stanford political economistNeil Malhotra and two of his graduate studentsexamined every study since 2002 that was funded bya competitive grants program called TESS(Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences).