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SAT Practice Test #10
P961——Section 4
旅程途中
9. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer C :
Choice (C) is correct. Camila’s repeated glances at her watch indicate that she is concerned about arriving on time for "class" and her "presentation," a fear allayed by the fact that "There was time to spare."
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. Although Camila does face a six-hour drive through a snowstorm, the act of checking her watch does not indicate fear of traveling in storms.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. Whether or not Camila is annoyed at having to make the trip during a storm is unrelated to her repeatedly checking her watch.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. Checking her watch does not reveal Camila’s eagerness to interact with her colleagues, but rather her concerns about arriving on time for her appointments. The details about her appointments are stated coldly, producing the sense that Camila is not eager at all.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. Her repeated time checks demonstrate her anxiety about making her appointments on time, not her excitement about delivering the speech, which she characterizes as "uninspiring," or dull.
10. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer D :
Choice (D) is correct. As Salome’s daughter, Camila would have insights into her mother’s personal life that would be unavailable to other researchers. "Light" refers to these personal insights or privileged information only Salome's daughter should be able to bring to the discussion.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. "Bibliographic information," which is data about a person’s published writings, is a matter of record that any scholar can access.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. "Direct literary citations," or quotes from Salome's work, would be available to all scholars.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. Although Salome’s daughter might be able to provide "historical analyses," or studies of Salome’s times, there is no reason why she might do this better than any other scholar.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The passage states that "other scholars can talk about Salome’s poetry" (line 10), or provide "scholarly critiques," but Camila's role is to offer a different perspective.
11. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer A :
Choice (A) is correct. The passage immediately creates drama through a scene of school children discovering "one frog after another with deformities." The paragraph creates more drama by withholding explanations of the "phenomenon," or unusual occurrence, of the frog deformities. The paragraph ends with two unanswered questions, which also raise the drama and suspense.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. The first paragraph does not "advocate," or recommend, a certain course of action; it simply introduces the fact of the frog deformities.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. Although the frog deformities caught the attention of the media, the passage does not speak of a widespread panic.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. Although the opening paragraph presents a local scene, the author does not compare it to the national situation until the second paragraph.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The first paragraph cites an instance of school children collecting frogs in order to introduce a strange occurrence, not to make a statement about children’s interest in science.
12. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer E :
Choice (E) is correct. The characterization of the media as "misleading," or deceptive, is clearly a "critical," or judgmental, stance. The author criticizes the media for misleading the public by "touting" individual explanations for the frog deformities, when most likely the deformities are occurring for several different reasons.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. The author claims that the media’s treatment of the deformities provides "a misleading view" (line 15), a sentiment that shows little "respect," or esteem, for the media.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. "Indifferent" means without a preference, or having no feeling one way or another. In directly expressing negative feelings about the media, the author communicates a clear, strong opinion on the subject.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. The author shows no signs of "ambivalence," or uncertainty caused by conflicting emotions. The author clearly expresses a strong opinion (the media is "misleading") about the media.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. "Resentful" means full of hostility due to an offense. Although the passage expresses a negative opinion of the media, there is no indication that the author has cause to feel personally wronged.
P962——Section 4
对待复杂事物的态度
13. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer B :
Choice (B) is correct. Each of the consultants draws from a set of attitudes and a body of knowledge particular to his or her specialty. Consequently, the three consultants respond differently because each has received different training.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. No comment is made about the mathematical training of any of the three.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. The passage offers no evidence that the psychologist studies the behavior of cows differently than the others do, or that the engineer's and the physicist's approaches to the problem resemble each other; the passage offers no description of how they studied the behavior of cows. The claim that "the psychologist studies the behavior of cows differently" does not explain why all three responded differently as required by the question.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. Each consultant offers all or part of a solution. The psychologist and the physicist are not silenced, nor are their perspectives made irrelevant by the findings of the engineer.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The physicists's approach calls humorous attention to the struggle to remove details rather than to the successful completion of the task. All three investigators eliminate some details while focusing on others. The claim that "only the physicist can successfully eliminate" does not explain why all three responded differently as required by the question.
14. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer E :
Choice (E) is correct. The engineer’s proposal focuses on putting more cows into existing space by decreasing the stall size. If the stall size were decreased, more stalls could fit into the existing barn, which would allow the accommodation of more cows without building another barn.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. Although the engineer suggests increasing the diameter of the milking tubes, no inference can be drawn that these tubes would have any effect on the comfort of the cows.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. Because of the smaller size of the stalls, more cows could be housed without any increase in farm size.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. The engineer’s proposal pays no attention to the “humane treatment” of cows. If anything, the suggested decrease in stall size could be said to cause a less humane environment because of the crowding that would result.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. More milk per cow should increase, not decrease, profits because milk is the key product of a dairy farm.
15. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer D :
Choice (D) is correct. The psychologist’s efforts are directed toward inducing “greater milk flow” through a “more mellow color” in the barn and less boring scenery in the fields where the cows graze. Proposing improvements to the cows' environment to increase milk production are based on the assumption that the more content cow is, the more milk it will produce.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. In making a prescription for cows, the psychologist mentions both color and diversity of environment, factors that also influence humans. The psychologist is assuming that there is a psychological similarity.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. Although the psychologist does bring an aesthetic awareness to his considerations, no attention is paid to any connection between psychology and current theories of aesthetics.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. The psychologist’s suggestions involve only what the cows can see in the barn and outdoors. No mention is made of individualized attention.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. All of the psychologist’s recommendations are designed to be used with all the cows at the dairy farm and are assumed to affect all the cows in a similar manner.
16. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer C :
Choice (C) is correct. The author begins with the “old joke” to introduce the particular way physicists scientifically engage the world. The way physicists engage the world, through abstract thinking that removes all the irrelevant details, is the topic of the passage.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. The author does not offer “an event” or dramatize one. Rather, the anecdote serves as a prelude to the discussion.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. The “old joke” is, as the author says, “an allegory for thinking simply about the world,” not an argument. Even though the author eventually argues for a position later in the passage, the author only introduces the topic with the opening joke.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. The “old joke” does not present terminology; terms are defined later.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The author’s “old joke” acts as an introductory anecdote, or narrative. Although each of the consultants has a different set of assumptions, none are “misleading” or in need of being “exposed.” In addition, it is clear that the "old joke" is intended to introduce a topic by comically portraying the way physicists view the world, not to expose any misleading assumptions held by engineers or psychologists.
17. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer A :
Choice (A) is correct. The use of the conditional in the “guidelines” (“If it works…If it still works”) suggests the necessity of following what works even when the reasons for success are not yet clear. The author is highlighting the element of the unknown in both professions.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer B :
Choice (B) is incorrect. There is no mention of dedication in the passage, nor does the passage make a comparison between the dedication of physicists and producers.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. According to the author, physicists and producers are equally concerned with solving practical problems.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. Hollywood producers “exploit” and "copy" what "works," but it is clear that there is no systematic means of selecting what will work. Rather, the passage suggests that the Hollywood producers are unclear why something is successful, and only use simple, practical guidelines to bring about success.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The author makes no mention of the dictates of conscience or principle. Instead attention is given to the use of simple, utilitarian guidelines to bring about repeated success.
18. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Explanation for Correct Answer B :
Choice (B) is correct. "Getting rid of irrelevant details," the author says, "is the first step in building any model of the world." Galileo removed details about the "particular circumstances in which moving objects find themselves," and thus accurately described motion. This works because many details are irrelevant and prevent simple, unfettered thinking to solve a particular problem.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer A :
Choice (A) is incorrect. The author argues that abstraction is an important part of how "thinking simply" works. The author argues that abstraction is useful not because it is susceptible to error, but because it can remove confusion caused by direct observation.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer C :
Choice (C) is incorrect. Adhering to the concerns of the public would complicate, not simplify, one’s thinking. The author illustrates that Galileo's simple thinking was effective precisely because he was not influenced by general public opinion.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer D :
Choice (D) is incorrect. The comparison between the physicist and the Hollywood producer suggests that empirical facts can, indeed, be modeled: "If it works, exploit it. If it still works, copy it." The author argues that it is precisely the amazing ability of "thinking simply," or removing irrelevant details, that allows empirical facts to be modeled.
Explanation for Incorrect Answer E :
Choice (E) is incorrect. The author does not suggest that events are often self-explanatory. On the contrary, explaining events, the author argues, is something "we do . . . subconsciously from the moment we are born" (lines 40-41). "Thinking simply" requires removing some of the irrelevant data concerning events if one is going to explain them. In general, if events were self-explanatory, no thinking, let alone "thinking simply," would be necessary.
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