Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practie Test 22

1

Technology and its ________ on all areas of the job market are tedious subjects for the student and young professional.

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

2

Because emission spectra are unique to each element and constant throughout the universe, scientists are able to attach a spectrometer to a telescope, locate a celestial body, and ________________________

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

3

The oldest known bullroarers were discovered in the Ukraine and are estimated to date from the Paleolithic era, approximately 17,000 B.C.E, but slightly more recent bullroarers have been discovered at archeological sites on every continent ________ Antarctica.

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

4

Here are three easy ways that we ballet dancers can improve bone mineral density. First, we're athletes. Ensure you are eating enough to fuel a professional athlete. Focus on foods high in calcium and vitamin D. It's not all dairy-seeds, canned fish, beans, lentils, almonds, and leafy greens are also great choices. _______ get your vitamin D level checked. Vitamin D is needed for calcium absorption and almost 42 percent of adults are deficient. Third, go outside. We spend a lot of time in the studio, but sun exposure is a great way to get some more vitamin D. On a break, head outside, roll up your tights and enjoy a little bit of sun.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

5

Dark matter-unobserved material inferred to exist by its quantifiable gravitational effect on visible galaxies-is estimated to comprise roughly 23 percent of the universe by density. Visible atoms, _________, constitute less than 5 percent.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

6

Some will contend that the true problem of retrosynthesis lies not in the end-products, but rather in the byproducts and novel synthetic intermediates required to artificially reproduce biochemical compounds. It must be acknowledged that this is indeed a valid concern. The design of stable synthetic intermediates not found in nature has at times led to unforeseen consequences. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, _______ is a dangerous and highly concerning drug of abuse among youth.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

7

If you've ever been in the Central or Eastern U.S. around dusk in late summer, you've probably witnessed a peculiar biological phenomenon-all around long, languorous insects begin to appear, with abdomens emitting a flickering, yellow-green glow. These insects, commonly known as "fireflies" or "lightning bugs", produce their glow in a process called bioluminescence. _________ the firefly is perhaps the most familiar species that emits its own light, bioluminescence has been discovered in varieties of fungi, fish, coral, squid, and even a bacterium that lives in elephant mucus.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

8

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

■ In the United States, people who have been detained by the police have a right to swiftly appear before the court to determine whether the detention is valid.

■ This right is known as the writ of "habeas corpus," a Latin phrase that translates as "you should have the body."

■ This right prevents people who are being detained from disappearing into a jail or prison without due process of the law.

■ Habeas corpus was first set as a right in the Magna Carta, one of the founding documents of the English systems of laws.

■ This right today is an important check on the power of police and governments.

The student wants to suggest a possible negative consequence of not having a policy requiring habeas corpus in place. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

9

Into the early twentieth century, color cameras themselves remained somewhat __________; this owed largely to the logistical complexities of exposing three separate individually filtered plates on the same subject. One design used a system of prisms and mirrors to split the lens image through three internal filters, which in turn exposed three plates simultaneously.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

10

From "The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus in 1883, engraved on the Statue of Liberty-one of the first things that new immigrants to the United States would see if they arrived by boat.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

As used in the text, what does the word yearning most nearly mean?