SAT Reading and Writing Practice Flashcards

Flashcards to help students review their lecture notes and prepare for an upcoming exam.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Coll and colleaguesʼ 2010 Mediterranean Sea biodiversity census reported approximately 17,000 species, nearly double the number reported in Carlo Bianchi and Carla Morriʼs 2000 census…?

Some differences observed in microorganisms may have been treated as variations within species by Bianchi and Morri but treated as indicative of distinct species by Coll and colleagues.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Researchers recently found that disruptions to an enjoyable experience…?

Rate the listening experience as more negative than those whose listening experience was uninterrupted.

Which choice most logically completes the text? German theater practitioner Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) believed that theater should elicit an intellectual rather than an emotional response from audiences…?

Be dispassionate as they think critically about the social and political questions raised by the play.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Archaeologists and historians used to believe that the Maya civilization during its Classic period (roughly 250– 900) lacked agricultural marketplaces…?

Marketplaces would not have enabled Maya people to acquire many products different from those they already produced.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Scientists studying Mars long thought the history of its crust was relatively simple…?

Marsʼs crust likely formed as a result of other major geological events in addition to the cooling of a magma ocean.

Which choice most logically completes the text? The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is projected to maintain operation until at least 2030, but it has already revolutionized high-resolution imaging of solar-system bodies…?

Will likely continue to be used primarily to observe objects outside the solar system.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Geoglyphs are large-scale designs of lines or shapes created in a natural landscape…?

Is probably in a location Isla hadnʼt ever come across while on the ground.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Indigenous cultures possess unique knowledge of the medicinal uses of plants…?

Preserving knowledge about the medicinal value of plants native to the tribal nationsʼ lands.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Laura Mulvey has theorized that in narrative film, shots issuing from a protagonistʼs point of view compel viewers to identify with the character…?

Lessening their identification with the protagonist, if not alienating them from the character altogether.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Many animals, including humans, must sleep, and sleep is known to have a role in everything from healing injuries to encoding information in long-term memory…?

Prolonged deep sleep is likely advantageous in ways that have yet to be discovered.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Researchers Suchithra Rajendran and Maximilian Popfinger modeled varying levels of passenger redistribution from short-haul flights…?

Rail systems may need to schedule additional trains for these routes.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Henry Ossawa Tannerʼs 1893 painting The Banjo Lesson, which depicts an elderly man teaching a boy to play the banjo…?

Risk judging Tannerʼs painting by standards that may not be historically appropriate.

Which choice most logically completes the text? A heliograph is a semaphore device used for sending optical communications—usually in the form of Morse code …?

Was not so constrained by environmental circumstances.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Tides can deposit large quantities of dead vegetation within a salt marsh, smothering healthy plants and leaving a salt panne…?

May promote increases in marsh plants or decreases in marsh plants, depending on the crabsʼ location.

Which choice most logically completes the text? “Gestures” in painting are typically thought of as bold, expressive brushstrokes…?

Whittenʼs work from the 1960s exhibits many more gestures than his work from the 1970s does.

Which choice most logically completes the text? During the Bourbon Restoration in France (1814–1830), the right to vote required in part that a person paid at least 300 francs in direct taxes to the government…?

Those people who had the right to vote most likely had substantial holdings of French real estate.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Mosses can struggle in harsh desert conditions because these plants require enough sunlight for photosynthesis but not so much that they risk drying out…?

S. caninervis growing under quartz crystals experience lower light intensity and are thus able to retain more moisture.

Which choice most logically completes the text? To better understand the burrowing habits of Alpheus bellulus (the tiger pistol shrimp), some studies have used resin casting to obtain precise measurements of the shrimpsʼ burrows…?

It does not allow for multiple castings of the same burrow over time.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Conventional theories of rhetoric hold that presenting information as coming from credentialed experts increases that information’s credibility…?

The fact that former trial volunteers went through the same experience that participants were contemplating while doctors did not was more important to participants than the doctors’ status as credentialed experts was.

Which choice most logically completes the text? During their larval phase, numerous species of coral reef fish are drawn toward areas where light is present…?

The reproductive success of A. ocellaris would be at risk if they were to selectively settle in regions that are regularly exposed to low levels of ALAN.

Which choice most logically completes the text? Overgrazing by purple sea urchins has caused many kelp forests along North America’s west coast to be replaced by urchin barrens…?

Sunflower sea stars do not always avoid foraging on nutritionally poor sea urchins, making sunflower sea star population recovery a potentially important tool for controlling urchin barrens.

Which choice most logically completes the text? In a three-year study of parasitic infections by Anomotaenia brevis tapeworms in Temnothorax nylanderi ants, entomologist Susanne Foitzik and colleagues found something unexpected…?

Need to compensate for reduced contributions within the colony while also caring for infected workers is burdensome to the uninfected workers.