SAT Questions and Answers Model Paper-5 Important Questions Section B

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Section - B

Time - 25 minutes

25 Question

1. Tania excels at dancing the meringue, having - the steps during her childhood years in the Dominican Republic.

(A) Diverted

(B) Mastered

(C) Ignored

(D) Confused

(E) Promised

2. The artist, often so - as to seem unapproachable, tended to be more relaxed and easygoing when among friends.

(A) Generous

(B) Creative

(C) Sympathetic

(D) Reserved

(E) Reasonable

3. For centuries, Mars has been called the “Red Planet,” but the designation is -, because mars is not precisely red.

(A) A technically

(B) A misnomer

(C) An epigram

(D) An understatement

(E) A platitude

4. In his essay, writer Rudolfo Anaya strives to - his sometimes incongruous Mexican and American identities by combing - worldviews to create one unique vision.

(A) Distinguish. . Irreconcilable

(B) Assimilate. . Simultaneous

(C) Synthesize. . Divergent

(D) Mitigate. . Equivalent

(E) Reinforce. . Equivalent

5. The mayor՚s reelection by an overwhelming majority was not so much an endorsement of his administration՚s - as it was a - of his opponent՚s extreme views.

(A) Programs. . Vindication

(B) Adversities. . Denunciation

(C) Methods. . Dissemination

(D) Policies. . Repudiation

(E) Indifference. . Ratification

6. Lina Wertmuller՚s film Love and Anarchy is a - its title, contemplating the two concepts without taking a position on them.

(A) Demolition of

(B) Critique of

(C) Commemoration of

(D) Meditation on

(E) Diatribe against

7. City leaders practiced - out of respect for taxpayers, - the number of new public projects.

(A) Forbearance. . Augmenting

(B) Mendacity. . Circumventing

(C) Austerity. . Curtailing

(D) Profligacy. . Truncating

(E) Reticence. . Extolling

8. To call Carlos - would be to mistake his natural self – confidence and youthful high spirits for willful defiance.

(A) Superfluous

(B) Voracious

(C) Obstreperous

(D) Duplicitous

(E) Incredulous

Questions 9 – 12 are based on the following passages.

Passage 1

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Line No.Passage
5The power of role – playing video games resides in the ways in which they meld learning and identity. A player՚s taking on the identify of a character in a game constitutes a form of identification with the virtual character՚s world, story, and perspectives. The player projects his or her own
10Hopes, values, and fears onto the character that he or she is co-creating with the video game՚s designers. Doing so allows the player to imagine a new identity born at the intersection of the player՚s real – world identities and the identity of the character. This new identity speaks to, and
Possibly transforms, the player՚s values.

Passage 2

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15Role – playing video games offer us many different contexts for presenting ourselves. Those possibilities are particularly important for adolescents because they offer what psychologist Erik Erikson describes as a moratorium
20- a safe space for the personal experimentation that is so crucial in adolescent development. But some people who gain fluency in expressing multiple aspects of self may find it harder to develop authentic selves. Children who write narratives for the characters they play may grow up With
too little experience in how to share their real feelings with other people. Role – playing video games have made it possible to have the illusion of a companionship without the demands of friendship.

9. Both passages suggest that video games

(A) Are underutilized as educational tools

(B) Negatively influence psychological development

(C) Rely on a common set of characters and situations

(D) Allow players to experiences alternative identities

(E) Mirror experiences players are likely to have in real life

10. In line 4, “form” most nearly means

(A) Structure

(B) Figure

(C) Pattern

(D) Type

(E) Custom

11. Which best describes the relationship between the two passages?

(A) Passage 1 offers an analysis of an activity that Passage 2 suggests may be harmful.

(B) Passage 1 months an ardent defense of a hobby that passage 2 portrays as frivious.

(C) Passage 1 concedes that a position endorsed by passage 2 has some validity.

(D) Passage 1 provides a social explanation for a phenomenon that passage 2 argues is best understood psychologically.

(E) Passage 1 gives a simplified account of an experience that Passage 2 claims is extremely complex.

12. Both authors make the point that players of video games are

(A) Most often children and teens

(B) Sometimes changed by the games they play

(C) Typically dedicated to principles of fair play

(D) Generally representative of society as a whole

(E) Usually good at separating their real and virtual lives

Question 13 – 15 are based on the following passage.

After segregationist practices barred Black American singer Marian Anderson from a scheduled Washington, D. C. performance in 1939, the federal government sponsored her in a public concert on Easter Sunday.In this adaptation from a 2003 novel, Delia, a Black American voice student, arrives for that concert.

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5She steps off the train into a capital huddling under blustery April. She half – expects the cherry trees to greet her right inside Union Station. The coffered barrel vault arches over her, a fading neoclassical cathedral to transportation that she steps through. Making herself small, invisible. She
10moves through the crowd with tight. Effacing steps, waiting for someone to challenge her right to be here.

Washington: every fortunate Philadelphia schoolgirl՚s field trip, but it has taken Delia until twenty to see the point of visiting. She heads out of the station and bears

15southwest. She nods toward Howard University, her father՚s School, where he suggested she go make something of herself. The capitol rises up on her left, more unreal in life than in the thousands of silver images she grew up suspecting. The building that now stands open to black
20people again, I after a generation, bends the very air around it. She can՚t stop looking. She walks into the waking spring, the river of moving bodies, giggling even as she hushes herself up.

The whole city is a postcard panorama. Like being

25Inside a grade – school civics text. Today, at least, the monument – flanked boulevards flow with people of all races. The group from union Baptist church told her to look for them up front on the left, near the steps of the Lincoln memorial. She has only to hook right, on constitution
30Avenue, to see how naïve those plans were. There՚ll be no rendezvous today. To the west, a crowd gathers, too dense and ecstatic to penetrate.

Delia Daley looks out over the carpet of people, more people than she knew existed. Her steps slow as she slips in

35behind the mile – long crowd. All in front of her, the decades – long Great comes home. She feels the danger, right down her spine. A crowd this size could trample her without anyone noticing. But the prize lies at the other end of this gliding crush. She breathes in,
40forcing her diaphragm down- support, appoggio! - And plunges in.

Something here, a thing more than music, is kicking in the womb. Something no one could have named two months ago now rises up, sucking in its first stunned

45breaths. Just past Delia in the press of bodies, a high schooler - though from the look of her, high school is a vanished dream-spins around, flashing, to catch the eye of anyone who՚ll look at her, a look of delivery that has waited lifetimes.
50Delia pushes deeper into the sea, her throat, like a pennant, unfurling. Her larynx drops, the release her voice teacher Lugati has been hounding her these last ten months to find. The lock opens and a feeling descends on her-confirmation of her chosen life. She՚s on her
55appointed track, she and her people. Each will find her only way forward. She wants to kick back and call out, as so many around her are already doing, White people within earshot or no. This is not a concert. It՚s a revival meetings, a national baptism, the riverbanks flooded with
60waves of expectation.

Inside this crowd, she feels the best kind of invisible. The slate – colored combed – silk dress that serves so well for Philadelphia concerts is all wrong here, too sleek by half, her hemline missing low by a full two inches. But no

65one marks her except with pleasure.

The crowd condenses. It՚s standing room only, flowing the length of the reflecting pool and down West Potomac park. The floor of this church is grass. The columns of this nave are budding trees. The vault above, an Easter sky.

70The deeper Delia wades in toward the speck of grand piano, the stickpin corsage of microphones where her idol will stand, the thicker this celebration. The press of massed desire lifts the deposits her, helpless, a hundred yards upstream, facing the Tidal Basin. Schoolbook cherry
75trees swim up to fill her eyes, their blossoms mad. They wave the dazzle of their pollen. Bait and, in this snowstorm of petals, fuse with every Easter when they ever unfolded their promissory color.

And what color is this flocking people? She՚s forgotten

80even to gauge. She never steps out in a public place without carefully averaging the color around her, the measure of her relative safety. But this around wavers like a horizon – long bolt of crushed velvet. Its tone changes with every turn of light and tilt of her head. A mixed
crowd, the first she՚s ever walked in, American. Both people are here in abundance, each waiting for the sounds that will fill their own patent lack. No one can be barred from this endless ground floor.

1 The desegregation of the federal government began during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt (1933 – 1945) .

2 A movement of Black Americans from the southern United States to the north starting in 1916.

13. Which characterization best describes the passage?

(A) An impressionistic account of a significant public event

(B) An idiosyncratic analysis of a puzzling moment in history

(C) A board overview of an important change in American society

(D) A personal commentary on a controversial government decision

(E) A nostalgic recollection of a memorable personal achievement

14. In line 10, “bears” most nearly means

(A) Conducts

(B) Escorts

(C) Assumes

(D) Proceeds

(E) Offers

15. Lines 20 – 21 ( “The whole … text” ) suggest which of the following about Delia՚s reaction to the city?

(A) She feels claustrophobic in the city.

(B) She is put off by the city՚s many monuments.

(C) She sees an idealized version of the city.

(D) She enjoys the city՚s many educational opportunities.

(E) She is amazed by the sheer size of the city.

16. In line 32, “comes home” metaphorically suggests that the migrants can now

(A) Adopt a new lifestyle

(B) Feel that they belong

(C) Recognize old friends

(D) Rejoin their families

(E) Reclaim lost property

17. In lines 38 – 41 ( “Something here … breaths” ) , the imagery serves to convey the

(A) Unavoidable vulnerability of artists

(B) Refreshing innocence of an individual՚s behavior

(C) Starting novelty of a development

(D) Subtle danger within a happy situation

(E) Insistent curiosity of human beings

18. The behavior of the “high schooler” mentioned in lines 41 – 42 expresses

(A) Unrestrained aggression

(B) Cheerful perplexity

(C) Exuberant celebration

(D) Serene contentment

(E) Patient resignation

19. The reference to “lifetimes” in line 45 links one person՚s perspective to a

(A) Process repeated in every decade

(B) Desire shared by generations

(C) Promise made by parents

(D) Goal embraced by elected leaders

(E) Tradition celebrated by all Americans

20. In context, the statement “This is not a concert” (line 54) makes what point?

(A) Delia is concerned that she will not be able to hear Anderson՚s performance.

(B) Delia worries that political concerns will overshadow the concert.

(C) The concert – goers are uneasy about the size of the crowd.

(D) Anderson has not yet begun her performance.

(E) The event has a significance beyond that of a mere concert.

21. The images of flowing water in lines 62 – 70 ( “It՚s … Basin” ) primarily portray the crowd as

(A) An Indefinable feature of the landscape

(B) A temporary, passing presence

(C) A frightening intrusion into a city

(D) A boundary between the present and the feature

(E) A relentless force of nature

22. In line 71, “mad” most nearly means

(A) Angry

(B) Inexplicable

(C) Wild

(D) Hilarious

(E) Insane

23. In line 79, “tone” most nearly means

(A) Sound

(B) Color

(C) Manner

(D) Style

(E) Fitness

24. The narrator՚s use of American in line 81 suggests that

(A) A barrier in American society has been removed

(B) A collective action is inconsistent with American ideals

(C) A fascination with celebrities affects all Americans

(D) Such enthusiastic displays have become common in American life

(E) Ethnic self-consciousness is inescapable for Americans

25. In the context of the passage as a whole, the last sentence ( “No one … floor” ) suggests that the crowd gathered for the concert is

(A) Upset by the lack of progress in American society

(B) Looking backward to a burdensome past

(C) So vast that the participants feel overwhelmed

(D) Unaware of the significance of the moment

(E) Serving as a foundation for social inclusiveness