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    Sample Questions ● A dilettante is someone who dabbles at a career or

    hobby and so may not excel at anything.


    1. Because King Philip’s desire to make Spain the ● A pilferer steals repeatedly, in small quantities; this
    dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran has nothing to do with storytelling.
    counter to Queen Elizabeth’s insistence on ● A prevaricator tells lies, but not necessarily in an
    autonomy for England, ------- was -------. accomplished or fascinating way; and the sentence
    (A) reconciliation . . assured refers to stories, not lies.
    (B) warfare . . avoidable
    (C) ruination . . impossible You should choose the word that best fits the meaning of
    (D) conflict . . inevitable the sentence as a whole, and only choice (E) does so.
    (E) diplomacy . . simple Correct answer: (E) / Difficulty level: Hard

    Be sure to look for key words and phrases as you read each Passage-Based Reading
    sentence. Words such as although, however, if, but, and since
    are important to notice because they signal how the differ- The reading questions on the SAT measure your ability to
    ent parts of a sentence are logically related to each other. read and think carefully about several different passages
    Words such as not and never are important because they ranging in length from about 100 to about 850 words.
    indicate negation. In the example above, the entire sentence Passages are taken from a variety of fields, including the
    hinges on a few key words: “Because something ran counter humanities, social studies, natural sciences, and literary
    to something else, blank was blank.” fiction. They vary in style and can include narrative, argu-
    mentative, and expository elements. Some selections con-
    ● The word “because” indicates that the information sist of a pair of related passages on a shared issue or theme;
    in the first part of the sentence (the part before in some of the questions, you are asked to compare and
    the comma) explains the reason for the situation contrast these passages.
    described in the second part. The first part states
    that what King Philip wanted (domination for The following kinds of questions may be asked about a
    Spain) “ran counter to” what Queen Elizabeth passage:
    wanted (independence for England). ● Vocabulary in Context: These questions ask you to
    ● Given that there was such a fundamental disagree- determine the meanings of words from their con-
    ment between the two monarchs, would reconcilia- text in the reading passage.
    tion be assured? Unlikely. ● Literal Comprehension: These questions assess
    ● Would warfare be avoidable? Hardly; warfare your understanding of significant information
    might be unavoidable. directly stated in the passage.
    ● Would ruination be impossible? No. ● Extended Reasoning: These questions measure
    ● Would diplomacy be simple? Not necessarily. your ability to synthesize and analyze information
    ● Only choice (D) fits logically with the key words in as well as to evaluate the assumptions made and
    the sentence: Because what one person wanted ran the techniques used by the author. Most of the
    counter to what another person wanted, conflict reading questions fall into this category. You may
    was inevitable. be asked to identify cause and effect, make infer-
    ences, recognize a main idea or an author’s tone,
    Correct answer: (D) / Difficulty level: Medium and follow the logic of an analogy or an argument.
    2. There is no doubt that Larry is a genuine -------:
    he excels at telling stories that fascinate his Answering Passage-Based Reading
    listeners.
    Questions
    (A) braggart (B) dilettante (C) pilferer
    (D) prevaricator (E) raconteur Below are samples of the kinds of reading passages and
    questions that may appear on your test. For each set of
    Some sentence completions contain a colon. This is a sample materials,
    signal that the words after the colon define or directly ● read the passage carefully.
    clarify what came before. In this case, “he excels at telling ● decide on the best answer to each question.
    stories that fascinate his listeners” serves to define the word ● read the explanation for the correct answer.
    raconteur, choice (E). None of the other words is directly
    defined by this clause.
    ● A braggart may or may not excel at telling stories
    and may actually annoy listeners.

    6 SAT Preparation Booklet

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