No.26 (012012)
No.26 (012012)
No.26 (012012)
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take
care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet-you will receive no other paper on which to write.
You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size.
Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what
you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your
answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
People talk too much about their feelings. They share their deepest secrets and innermost
thoughts on television talk shows. They write revealing autobiographies. They buy books that
advise them to tell others about their feelings. We would be far better off if we followed the
advice of Florence Nightingale, a pioneer in the field of nursing, who thought that people too
often waste their feelings by talking about them and should instead turn their feelings into
I actions that bring results.
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Assignment: Is it better for people to act on their feelings than to talk about them? Plan and write an essay in which you
develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your
reading, studies, experience, or observations.
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ESSAY 1
ESSAY
Time - 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take
care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet-you will receive no other paper on which to write.
You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size.
Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what
you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your
answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Assignment: Should people accept unfairness and find ways to make the best of it? Plan and write an essay in which you
develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your
reading, studies, experience, or observations.
If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this section only.
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ESSAY
Time - 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take
care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answer sheet- you will receive no other paper on which to write.
You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size.
Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what
you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your
answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
No amount of wealth can help humanity moVe forward and make progress, even under the
management of the most dedicated and socially conscious workers. Money only leads to
selfishness and becomes an irresistible temptation to its owners to abuse it. The only thing
that can lead people to praiseworthy ideas and noble deeds is to follow the example of great
individuals who put other factors before money.
I Adapted from Albert Einstein in Alice Calaprice, The New Quotable Einstein
Assignment: ' Does money lead to selfishness? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this
issue. Support your position with reasoning und examples taken from your reading, studies, t:xveliew...:e,
or observations.
If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this section only.
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ESSAY 1
ESSAY
Time - 25 minutes
The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, take
care to develop' your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.
Your essay must be written on the Jines provided on your answer sheet- you will receive no other paper on which to write.
You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size.
Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that what
you are writing is legible to those readers.
Important Reminders:
• A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero.
• Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your
answer sheet.
• An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.
You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Advertisements provide information about available products and services. Many people
however, that something else is going on: advertisements try to convince people that when
buy things, they are also buying satisfaction and happiness. Advertisements merely fool
into believing that the next "new and improved" product will make their lives better, and the
result is that people are even more unhappy and dissatisfied than they would have been without
the advertisements.
Assignment: Do advertisements contribute to unhappiness and dissatisfaction? Plan and write an essay in which you develop
your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading,
studies, experience, or observations.
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SECTION 2
Time - 25 minutes
23 Questions
[ Turn to Section 2 (page 4) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
2. The English monarch Elizabeth I may have wanted the 7. The lifestyle of modern-dance pioneer Isadora
miniature portraits of herself and her disgraced mother Duncan was considered -------, since it was marked
kept secret, since they were ------- her . by unconventional behavior and attitudes.
(A) concealed within (B) carved upon (A) equestrian (B) abstemious (C) innocuous
(C) displayed beside (D) sheltered from (D) perfunctory (E) bohemian
(E) different from
8. The normally ------- Mr. Bell was uncharacteristically
3. Aware that his party's ------- was a direct result ------- in discussing the film in an interview last week.
of its distasteful policies, the candidate espoused a
kinder, more -------, political platform. (A) buoyant .. upbeat
(B) voluble .. cryptic
(A) affable .. malicious (C) ebullient .. effusive
(B) miserly .. acrimonious (D) inscrutable .. guarded
(C) harsh .. benevolent (E) loquacious .. garrulous
(D) amiable .. pragmatic
(E) altruistic .. humane
Questions 9-10 are based on the following passage. Questions 11-12 are based on the following passage.
After Ruma's father retired, he began to travel, sending During the early development of a new idea, scientists
Ruma succinct, impersonal postcard accounts of the things behave rather like artists, driven by temperament. We start
he had seen and done: "Yesterday the Uffizi Gallery. off with a hunch, a feeling, even a desire that the world
Line Today a walk to the other side of Arno." Occasionally Line be one way, and then we proceed from that presentiment,
5 there was a sentence about the weather. But there was 5 often sticking with it long after the data suggest we may
never a sense of her father's presence in those places. be leading ourselves and others down a blind alley.
It was a one-sided correspondence; his trips were brief What saves us is that experiment acts as the ultimate
enough so that there was no time for Ruma to write back. referee, settling all disputes. No matter how strong our
It was only in his closing that he acknowledged any hunch is, at some point we will have to prove it with facts.
10 personal connection between them. "Be happy, love Baba," 10 Otherwise our hunch, no matter how strongly held, will
he them, as if the attainment of happiness were as remain just that.
simple as that.
11. In the first two sentences (lines 1-6), scientists are
9. The primary function of the passage is to presented as all of the following EXCEPT
(A) describe a pattern of behavior (A) predisposed
(B) identify a growing conflict (B) determined
(C) portray an uncommon event (C) inherently logical
(D) condone an instance of neglect (D) somewhat idiosyncratic
(E) analyze a fundamental motivation (E) overly zealous
10. Lines 10-12 (" 'Be ... that") would best be 12. In context, the reference to "the ultimate referee"
characterized as a (lines 7-8) serves to emphasize the need for
(A) harsh judgment of a blunt command (A) agility
(B) total mockery of a nostalgic sentiment (B) objectivity
(C) straightforward reading of an ironic comment (C) commitment
(D) wistful recollection of an old-fashioned attitude (D) artistry
(E) mild criticism of a commonplace expression (E) conflict
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22. Which of the passage best illustrates the 23. The author's account of a childhood episode reveals
"ironies" refelTed to in line 69 ? that, as a young girl, she viewed her parents as
people who
(A) That the author has herself now become a mother
(B) That the author's father was as concerned by the were easily discouraged by obstacles
incident as was her mother (B) might withdraw their love at any moment
(C) That the father was comfortable playing with toys (C) were unconcerned by contradictions in their
traditionally meant for behavior
CD) That the author was influenced most by the gift CD) required constant reassurance of their superiority
least valued by her mother ' (E) had emotional needs that must be protected
(E) That the author became a poet instead of a dentist
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SECTION 4
Time - 2S minutes
18 Questions
Turn to Section 4 (page 5) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: This section contains two types of questions. You have 25 minutes to complete both types. For questions 1-8, solve
each problem and decide which is the best of the choices given. Fill in the corresponding circleon the answer sheet. You may
use any available space for scratch work.
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1. Eric planted a tree that was 30 inches tall, and it grew 2. If p - 3 is an even integer, then p could be which of
at a constant rate of 20 inches per year for the next the following?
10 years. Which of the following represents the height,
in inches, of the tree t years after it was planted, for all (A)
values of t between 0 and 10 ? (B) 0
(C) 1
(A) 30 + 20t (D) 2
(B) 50 + t (E) 4
(C) 50 + lOt
(D) 600 +t
(E) 600t
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JANE'S TELEVISION VIEWING PER DAY 4. In the xy-plane, the point (3, 0) is the center of a circle
that has a radius of 3. Which of the following is NOT
Saturday ?
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by 2. For v"'<UllIJlv, the third term of the sequence is (B)
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.Directions: For Student-Produced Response questions 9-18, use the grids at the bottom of the answer
sheet page on which you have answered questions 1-8.
Each of the remai ning 10 questions requires you to solve the problem and enter your answer by marking the circles
in the special grid, as shown in the examples below. You may use any available space for scratch work.
7 Answer: 201
Answer: 12 Answer: 2.5
Either position is correct.
Write answer ~~ 7 / I 2 2.5 201 2 0 I
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9. By Saturday afternoon, 375 tickets had been sold 10. The sum of five adjacent nonoverlapping angles
for a Saturday evening performance at a theater with is 180°. Four of the angles each have a measure of xo,
a capacity of 500 seats. After those 375 tickets were and the remaining angle measures 128°. What is the
sold, half the members of a group of 210 people each value of x?
purchased a ticket. If no other tickets were sold prior to
the performance, how many tickets remained unsold at
the time of the performance?
Salesperson
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iRed 10 8
Black 6
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SECTION 5
Time - 25 minutes
25 Questions
Turn to Section 5 (page 5) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding
circle on the answer sheet.
Questions 6-9 are based on the following passages. 6. The author of Passage 2 would most likely argue that
the "outlook" mentioned in line 8, Passage 1, is
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Questions 16-25 are based on the folJowing passage. history and looked through the meager dance collection
in the public library, where I found my answer: images
This passage is adaptedjimll the autobiography of 50 of Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Doris Humphrey,
an American peliormer and choreographer afmodem Ruth St. Denis, and Martha Graham. These women were
dance. Here she discllsses a period during the 1960s when the pioneers of a new art form. In creating modern dance,
she was attending college and in art history. they had struck out on their own, and running my fingers
over their pictures, I literally tried to absorb their power
Although I was working very hard at dance, I had no 55 and authority. In their art form, they were genuinely potent
idea if I was good enough to make it professionally. And -not relegated to being dilettantes, dabblers, Sunday
even if I did, what was a dancer to this culture'? What did painters. I was not interested in entering a profession where
Line saying you were going to be a dancer mean to the guy on I was handicapped by second-class status. Now I knew
5 the street, to the American middle class earning its living what I was doing both in art history and in dance, and when
in the real world? How could I explain that there are things 60 graduation day came I skipped the ceremonies. Working
that are important in all our lives that can be expressed toward becoming an artist in a 'way that I could understand,
only in dance, that there are not only physical truths but I chose to go to a rehearsal instead.
behavioral values and emotional reservoirs that can be
10 investigated and demonstrated only by bodies in motion?
*(/ diploma
That there are times and situations where words cannot be
trusted to do the job? That there is a genuine and specific
16. The passage is best described as a
need for dance, not just in me, but in us all? I could perhaps
have used the word "artist," said that was what I was going (A) confession of having made unwise choices
15 to be. People would have assumed I said that because I was (B) narrative of academic accomplishment
studying painting. It too is a visual art. but unlike dancing, (C) celebration of past achievements
painting makes its truths into a product you can hold. And (D) description of gaining new understanding
that can be sold. P<lintine hflS (j solid rnmket nnd therefore (E) commemoration of a life-changing event
is respected in an entrepreneurial society. However, I never
20 intended to be a painter, not seriously, and certainly had 17. In lines 2-13 ("And even ... all"), the author
no intention of teaching or curating. Nonetheless, I had shifts from
continued my art history major. But what, as a dancer,
would I do with the history of art, other than get a (A) admitting that dance is not respected
to explaining why that is so
sheepskin * to send home to Mother? At the time I could
(B) implying that dance is generally not
25 not see any use to the major, but in fact I had begun to use
vailled to suggesting why it should be
the discipline of art history to reinforce my own sense of
(C) suggesting that dance is not difficult to
what is classic in art. I was locating that strain that survives
understand to arguing that it should
generation after generation-graphic, bold, fundamental,
have more popular appeal
whether in the abstract geometric sculptures of Cycladic
(D) suggesting that dance is misunderstood to
30 women from the Bronze Age or the simple functional
mocking those who fail to appreciate it
designs of nineteenth-century Shaker furniture. I was
(E) complaining that dance is considered
getting my proportions right, finding the line which has .
irrelevant to sympathizing with that
on one side a refinement that bleeds life, and on its other
attitude
a condition where things are so rough, expressionistic,
35 or vague that all you can see is self-indulgence. As
18. In line 18, "solid" most nearly means
I came to believe in my 'own artistic cravings, I became
ever more self-righteous, thinking I was coming to know (A) substantial
the difference between good art and bad art, and I had (B) uninterrupted
even less patience for forms of experimentation that I saw (C) compact
40 as confusion. I liked work that looked as though the artist (D) three-dimensional
clearly knew what he was doing and believed in it. (E) prudent
And that was another thing. Why was "he" to denote
the artist, a pronoun I unconsciously use even now?
Where were the women? Where in the history of art
45 music, architecture, painting, sculpture, most centuries
of literature-were women seen as major contributors?
Sometimes I stole time from memorizing the required art
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SECTION 6
Time - 25 minutes
35 Questions
Turn to Section 6 (page 6) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding
circle on the answer sheet.
The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness 2. An entire ant colony working together can solve
of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence problems, the shortest
is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of path to a food source, that are impossible for
phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the an individual ant to solve.
original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If
you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence such as when they find
than any of the alternatives, select choice A: if not, select (B) such as finding of
one of the other choices. (C) such as finding
(D) like the finding of
In making your selection, follow the requirements of (E) like their finding of
standard written that is, pay attention to grammar,
choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation.
3. The brains of infants have many more neural
Your selection should result in the most effective
connections than the brains of adults do, but
sentence-clear and precise, without awkwardness PI'
ambiguity.
(A) but they are much less efficient
EXAMPLE: (B) but it is much less efficient
(C) but the efficiency being lower
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book
CD) they are much less efficient
(E) their efficiency is much lower, though
(A) and she was sixty-five years old then
(B) when she was sixty-five 4.
(C) at age sixty-five years old
(D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years transparent.
at the time when she was sixty-five
Arctic sea ice first freezes and it forms layers
0. of ice crystals and these
(B) Arctic sea ice first freezes, as it then formed
1. Some researchers think that vertical farms-multistory layers of ice crystals that
greenhouses used for growing food-may benefit (C) When arctic sea ice freezes first, it would form
society by conserving land, recycling wastewater, and layers of ice crystals that
reduction in fossil-fuel emissions. (D) When arctic sea ice first it forms
layers of ice crystals that
(A) reduction in
(E) Layers of ice crystals occurring when arctic sea
(B) they reduce
ice first freezes and
(C) to reduce
(D) reducing
(E) through reduction in
7. Famous for their fantastic allegmies, the works of 11. In the review of her latest play, the playwright was
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges ~~== praised as highly for her innovative plotlines
international acclaimed. ~~~..QtMI.Bmlm~k..;~~(lli!QILQt audience
expectation.
(A) have been international acclaimed
(B) have been acclaimed internationally (A) and because of her remarkable perception of
(C) had their acclaim internationally (B) and because she was remarkably perceptive of
(D) was acclaimed international (C) and was remarkably perceptive with
(E) was acclaimed internationally (D) as for her remarkable perception of
(E) as well as being remarkably perceptive with
8. Some critics insist that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
although a great humanitarian, is only a mediocre
writer.
(A) although a humanitarian, is only a mediocre
writer
(B) despite great humanitarianism, is only mediocre !i ~
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The following sentences test your ability to recognize 14. There ~ basic differences between computer memory
grammar and usage errors. Each sentence contains either A
a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more
than one error. The enor, if there is one, is underlined and human memory that make it unlikely that one
and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the C
one underlined part that must be changed to make the can replace the other. No error
sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice E.
In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard
written English.
15. Having been Leslie's teammate for three basketball
EXAMPLE: A
The other delegates and him seasons, Claire knew that Leslie had the experience
A B C
accepted the resolution drafted the and temperament of a good team captain.
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neutral states. No error
No error
E
they were shaped like leaves and branches but of the Roman Empire' suggest that the Romans used
A B B
because they form a micropattern that enables the a c~)Vering called a hipposandal to protect their
C D
No error
E 23. If it had been up to my sisters and 1., we
A B
19. Located on the firefly's lower abdomen is a mass would have spent every summer vacation at our
A B C
of luminescent cells in which oxygen combines with cousins' house, which was right on the lake. No elTor
C D E
20. In her fiction, Nella Larsen explored the minds of worldwide, altering c?astlines everywhere. No error
A B D E
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SECTION 7
Time - 25 minutes
20 Questions
each problem and decide which is the best of the choices given. Fill in the COlTe~mOlnaIng
may use any available space for scratch work.
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(B)
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(C)
(B) 4
(C) 3 (D)
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18. Based on the equations above, which of the following
must be true?
A 2 B
8 +9 72 (A) x 2
(B) x 4
16. In the equation above, if A represents a positive (C) y=6
integer, which of the following could be the
value of B? (D) y=8
(E) Y x 2
(A) 7
(B) 16
(C) 18
(D) 26
(E) 34
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19. The function j is defined by 2x2 5. What 20. Each of the 75 children in a line was assigned one of
the from I through 75 counting off in order.
are all possible values of j(x) where -2 < x < 2 ? Then, standing in the same order, the children counted
off in the opposite direction, so that the child who was
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assigned the number 75 the first time was assigned the
(B) -5~j(x)<3 number 1 the second time. Which of the following is
(C) 0 j(x)<3 a pair of numbers assigned to the same child?
(D) 0 ~ j (x) < 8 (A) 50 and 25
(E) 2 $; j ( x) < 8
(B) 49 and 24
(C) 48 and 26
(D) 47 and 29
(E) 45 and 32
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SECTIONS
Time - 20 minutes
19 Questions
Turn to Section 8 (page 7) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding
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Questions 7-19 are based on the following passages. amount of text that literate Americans produce is
diminishing our sense of written craftsmanship. Ultimately,
The passages belmv, adaptedfrom vvorks published ~n . bad writing is driving writing out of circulation.
2008, discuss short, technologically driven COmmlll1lCatzons
Passage 2
such as instant messages, sent to andfron? computers, and .
text messages, sent to and from mobile deFices such as cell There is a curious ambivalence around. Complaints
phones. 45are made about children's poor literacy, and then, when
a technology arrives that provides fresh and motivatihg
Passage 1 opportunities to read and write, such as e-mail, chat,
blogging, and texting, complaints are made about that.
A few years back, I did an interview on the possible The problems associated with the new medium -such as
effects of instant messaging (1M) on the writing of 50 new abbreviation styles-are hIghlighted and the potential
teenagers. The other guest, himself a polished writer, benefits ignored. I heard someone recently complaining
Line extolled the benefits that 1M seemed destined to have
that "children don't keep diaries anymore." The speaker
5 upon the next generation's writing abilities. I countered
was evidently unaware that the online diary - the .
with the proverbial case of monkeys and typewriters: is one of the most popular areas of Internet acti vity among
however long they pound away, theyare unlikely to
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produce Shakespeare. A couple of axioms might be usefully affmned at thIS
More recently, I have begun to suspect that the situation point. I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for
10 is even more troubling. Could it actually be that the more .
you. I also believe that anything which helps develop your
we write online, the worse writers we become? r m not awareness of different properties, styles, and effects of
talking about whether the usual litany of acronyms and 60 writing is good for you. It helps you become a better
abbreviations (such as 2 for "to" or "two," or btvv for "by reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more
the way") is seeping into everyday writing, or whether our sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from
15 e-mails are laced with misspelled words or minimalist
other innovative forms of written expression that have
punctuation. Rather, my concern is more profound: is the emerged in the past. It is a type of ianguage whose
sheer fact that we are replacing so much of our spoken 65 communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be
interaction with written exchanges gradually eroding appreciated. If it were to take its place alongside other
a public sense that the quality of writing m~tters: kinds of writing in school curriculums, students would soon
20 I vividly recall an article in early 2000, 10 whIch the develop a strong sense of when it is appropriate to use it
reviewer despaired over the profusion of spelling and and when it is not. It is not as if the school would be
punctuation mistakes he had found in the text a~ hand 70 teaching them something totally new. Many Web sites are
(which, incidentally, had been published by a hIghly already making texters aware that there are some situations
respected press). Worse still, he noted, this book was no~ in which it is inappropriate to use texting abbreviations,
25 unique. Sardonically, he mused that about ten years earl.ler,
because they might not be understood.
all competent proofreaders must have disappeared. But IS
This might seem self-evident, yet when a text-messaging
the problem actually the proofreaders? Or might it be that
75 unit was included as an option in the English curriculum in
we the readers (who ourselves are often writers) are less schools in Victoria, Australia, for eighth- to tenth-grade
fussy than we used to be? Is it that we could proofread- students, it was condemned by no less a person than the
30 we know the rules-but no longer care to do so?
federal minister of education. The 'students were taught to
In 2003, John McWhorter wrote Doing Our Own Thing:
translate text messages, write glossaries of abbreviations,
The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We
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Should, Like, Care, in which he argued that contemporary
English. Stylistic comparisons of this kind have long
Americans, unlike earlier generations and unlik~ many proved their worth in English classes. The minister was
35 other cultures, do not particularly care about theIr language.
reported as urging a return to "basics." But what could be
In McWhorter's words, "Americans after the 1960s have
more basic, in terms of language acquisition, than to focus
lived in a country with less pride in its language than any
85 on students' developing sense of linguistic appropriateness?
other society in recorded history." While I believe
Mc Whorter is substantially correct, his point is not the one
40 I am making here. My own argument is that the inordinate
(A) impatience 14. In lines 44-48 ("Complaints ... that"), the author
(B) dismissal of Passage 2 refers to a situation best described as
(C) disbelief
(A) paradoxical
(D) amusement
(B) melodramatic
(E) agreement
(C) metaphorical
(D) speculati ve
10. The author of Passage 2 would most likely offer
(E) typical
which response to the question posed in lines 10-11,
Passage 1 ?
15. In line 45, "poor" most nearly means
(A) Yes, because writing casually makes people
(A) petty
careless about more formal discourse.
(B) needy
(B) Yes, because people must first be educated if they
(C) barren
are to become effective online writers.
'(D) humble
(C) Maybe, because using abbreviations can hinder
(E) inadequate
people from writing more efficiently.
CD) No, because online writers are more accomplished
than traditional writers.
(E) No, because any practice in writing will improve
a writer's skills.
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SECTION 9
Time - 20 minutes
16 Questions
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values of rand s. What is the value of 405?
3. The sequence above is formed by listing in increasing
order all the numbers that are 1 less than the square of (A) -21
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(D) 21
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(C) 48
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traveling by four different modes of travel. Titus and
Mary traveled by car at the same average rate. Titus
traveled 20 miles by car. Of the following, which is the
best approximation for how far Mary traveled by car?
(A) 15 miles
(B) 30 miles
(C) 45 miles
7. In the xy-plane, the line segment with endpoints (2, 2)
(D) 60 miles
and (5, 2) forms one side of a square. What is the (E) 75 miles
perimeter of the square?
(A) 6
(B) 9
(C) 12
(D) 20
(E) 28
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k 3w + 2 11. Katy is drawing a time line to represent a 200-year
period of time. If she makes the time line 60 inches
9. In the equation above, if w is increased by 2, long and draws it to scale, how many inches will
by how much does k increase? represent each year?
(A) 2 3
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15. If 6 times j is 1 more than the square of k, where k is 16. If the radius of a circle is tripled, by what percent is the
an integer, what is the smallest possible value of j ? area of the circle increased?
(A) -5 (A) 200%
(B) 300%
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(C) o (E) 800%
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(E) It cannot be determined from the information
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SECTION 10
Time - 10 minutes
14 Questions
Turn to Section 10 (page 7) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding
circle on the answer sheet.
The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness 2. While visiting our cousins in the Spanish city of
of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence Granada, the palace and fortress called the Alhambra
is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of was seen, with its splendid courts, fountains, and
phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the gardens.
original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If
(A) the palace and fortress called the Alhambra was
you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence
seen, with its
than any of the alternatives, select choice A; if not, select
(B) the palace and fortress called the Alhambra was
one of the other choices.
what we saw; it has
In making your selection, follow the requirements of (C) we saw the Alhambra, a palace and fortress; its
standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, having
choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. (D) we saw the Alhambra, a palace and fortress with
Your selection should result in the most effective (E) seeing the Alhambra, a palace and fortress with
sentence-clear anu jJ1ecise, without mvkwardness or
ambiguity. 3. Bees that are fed pollen from a range ot dIfferent
plants appear to have healthier immune systems than
EXAMPLE: do bees that are fed pollen from a single type of plant.
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book (A) plants appear to have healthier immune systems
and she was sixty-five years old then. (B) plants and appear to have a healthier immune
(A) and she was sixty-five years old then system
(8) when she was sixty-five (C) plants, appearing to have healthier immune
(C) at age sixty-five years old systems
(D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years (D) plants, which appear to have a healthier immune
(E) at the time when she was sixty-five system
(E) plants, their immune systems appear healthier
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4. When driving in hilly areas on icy roads,. snow tires an~
1. Although today's children certainly need to learn what you need on your vehicle for traction.
to type on computer keyboards, they also need to
develop legible handwriting for doing homework, (A) snow tires are what you need on your vehicle for
completing class work, and to take notes. traction
(8) there is a need for snow tires on your vehicle for
(A) and to take notes traction
(8) and whenever taking notes is done (C) what is needed for traction is snow tires on your
(C) and taking notes vehicle
(D) also taking notes (D) traction requires snow tires on your vehicle
(E) with taking notes being included (E) you need snow tires on your vehicle for traction
12. Like her husband, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner was 14. The swiftest animal on Earth, the cheetah can reach a
an Abstract Expressionist artist, and her and Pollock top speed of about 70 miles per hour, it can maintain
influenced each other's work. that speed for no more than 300 yards.
(A) her and Pollock influenced (A) hour, it can
(B) she and Pollock influenced (B) hour but can
(C) she and Pollock having influenced (C) hour, though they can
(D) herself and Pollock influencing (D) hour, but they can
(E) the two of them both influenced (E) hour, however, it can
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Correct Answers and Difficulty Levels
Form Codes AEIC, BWIC
Critical Reading . .
Section 2 Section 5 Section 8
COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF.
ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV.
1. 0 1 13. A 2 1. 0 14. A 3 1. A 1 ]1. D 3
2. A 3 14. 0 1 2. A 2 15. C 2 2. C 3 12. B 2
3. C 15. C 1 3. B 4 16. 0 3 3. C 3 13. 0 3
4. 0 3 16. B 2 4. A 3 17. B 3 4. E 4 14. A 4
5. 0 4 17. C 1 5. 0 5 18. A 3 5. B 5 15. E 1
6. E 4 18. A 2 6. E 3 19. B 4 6. A 5 16. 0 1
7. E 5 19. A 3 7. A 4 20. B 3 7. C 1 17. C 3
8. B 5 20. 0 3 8. 0 3 21. E 4 8. B 2 18. E 3
9. A 4 21. B 3 9. B 5 22. C 3 9. E 3 19. C
10. E 4 22. 0 2 10. A 1 23. A 3 10. E 2
11. C 4 23. E 3 11. B 3 24. A 3
12. B 3 12. A 3 25. C 5
13. 0 3
Mathematics
Section 4 Section 7 Section 9
Multiple-Choice Student-Produced COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF.
Questions Response Questions ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV.
COR.DIFF. COR. DIFF. 1. C 1 11. B 3 1. B 1 9. D 3
ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. 2.. 0 1 12. A 3 E ] 10. A 3
1. A 1 9. 20 I 3. B 1 13. C 3 3. C 1 11. A 3
2. C 10. 13 2 4. 0 1 14. E 3 4. E 1 12. C 4
3. 0 2 II. 231 3 5. 0 1 15. B 3 5. A 2 13. E 4
4. B 2 12. 3 2 6. C 2 16. E 3 6. B 1 14. 0 3
5. E 2 13. 190 3 7. C 2 17. A 5 7. C 2 15. 0 5
6. B 3 14. 5<x<6 3 8. A 2 18. B 4 8. B 3 16. E 5
7. 0 3 15. 34 3 9. D 3 19. B 4
8. B 3 16. 5/3,1.66,1.67 4 10. E 3 20. 0 5
17. 4/5,.8 4
18. 4095 4
Writing Multiple-Choice
Section 6 Section 10
COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF. COR.DIFF.
ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. . ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV. ANS. LEV.
1. 0 1 10. C 3 19. E 2 28. E 5 1. C 1 6. B 3 11. B 3
2. C 1 11. 0 3 20. C 2 29. C 5 2. 0 1 7. E 3 12. B 4
3. A 2 12. B 1 21. B 3 30. C 3 3. A 1 8. B 3 13. 0 4
4. 0 1 13. 0 1 22. B 4 31. B 3 4. E 2 9. C 3 14. B 5
5. C 1 14. A 1 23. B 4 32. E 3 5. 0 3 10. E 3
6. A 2 15. 0 1 24. E 3 33. B 4
7. B 2 . 16. C 2 25. C 3 34. C 4
8. A 2 17. B 1 26. C 3 35. C 3
9. 0 2 18. A 2 27. C 4
NOTE: Difficulty levels are estimates of question difficulty for a reference group of college-bound seniors.
Difficulty levels range from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest).
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