Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practie Test 11: Standard English Conventions

1

She instructs Bernice in social protocol in a __________ sentences, causing the reader to question the frivolous hedonism that dominates the early twentieth century.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

2

Although the digital age has understandably discouraged popularity in some traditional forms of _________________________________ is the digital platform more than making up for the moderate declines in traditional news sources but also research shows that Americans are spending more time consuming news than they have since the early 1990s.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

3

The building's miraculous design comes not from its magnitude, but from the curvatures between its platform and columns that offer an illusion of symmetry that exceeds its true dimensions, and in the elaborate engravings within its marble surfaces ___________ centuries of calamity.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

4

While Neanderthals appear to have maintained a stable population during the Ice Age, __________________________ leaving only the strongest and most intelligent to survive and carry on the species.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

5

Griselda consents to each demand precisely as she promised on their wedding day, and one begins to imagine that the Marquis is not so much testing his wife's devotion _______________ exploring the extent to which his power reaches.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

6

A teacher's workday starts and ends with the training and shaping of the next generation; and for many, there's no better way to invest their own training ________________ in the opening of young minds.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

7

Although in life the two considered themselves plenary ________________________ begin to realize that the worlds envisioned by Strindberg and Ibsen were perhaps not so different as they believed.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?