Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practie Test 8: Expression of Ideas

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While reading a social studies text about economics and inflation, a student takes the following notes:

■ Inflation involves an increase in the money supply.

■ Inflation is associated with increasing prices for goods and services.

■ Those who have fixed prices for their long-term debt payments may find inflation beneficial.

〇 Fixed debt payments will become relatively less expensive over time with inflation.

■ Those who are on fixed incomes may find inflation detrimental.

〇 Fixed income recipients may find their purchasing power decrease in an inflationary environment.

The student is doing a presentation in which she needs to create an example of a person who would most likely be harmed by inflation. Based on the notes, which of these examples would best accomplish the student's goal?

2

Still, modernism isn't let off easy in Fitzgerald's well-liked short story. ______ Marjorie is preferred socially, she is flagrantly rude and always needing to be entertained.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

3

Journalism includes the gathering and distribution of news through a variety of mediums, ____________________.

Which choice most specifically elaborates on the first part of this sentence?

4

Athenians collected their most lavish possessions inside the Parthenon among a host of statues, sculptures, precious metals, and treasures taken in the conquest of the Persians. _______ the project and all it stood for were short-lived: just seven years after the Parthenon was constructed, war broke out with Sparta.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

5

Some bat species have altered their mating and living habits to help protect themselves, and it is through observation of these adaptations that researchers ________, so preservationists can make the necessary interventions.

Which choice is most logically inserted in the underlined portion of the sentence?

6

Perhaps nowhere are timeless marital troubles better illustrated than in the second narrative of the suite, "The Clerk's Tale." ________________ we find the greatest power imbalance of any of Chaucer's unhappy couples.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

7

I have found my work as a professional architect to be ____________ Architects are rarely afforded a regular workweek. Instead, we spend hours upon hours preparing and re-preparing scale drawings, looking into environmental and safety regulations, and meeting with clients.

If the author wishes to express both the positive and negative nature of architecture, which of the following choices best accomplishes her goal?