Hi SAT Aspirants, welcome to AKVTutorials. As you know SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) is a standard test, used for taking admission to undergraduate programs of universities or colleges of United States. SAT is developed and published by the College Board, an organization in United States, administered by the Educational Testing Service. Therefore, you need to do practice on SAT Reading Section, SAT Writing and Language Section. In this article, you will get SAT Writing and Language Practice Test 1 with Answer Keys AMBIPi.
Instruction:
- In the passage below is accompanied by a number of questions.
- For some questions, you need to think how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas.
- For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation.
- Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage.
- Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
SAT Writing & Language Section Passage
SAT Writing Passage Title: A Quick Fix in a Throwaway Culture
Planned obsolescence, a practice 1 at which products are designed to have a limited period of 2 usefulness, has been a cornerstone of manufacturing strategy for the past 80 years. This approach increases sales, but it also stands in 3 austere contrast to a time when goods were produced to be durable. Planned obsolescence wastes materials as well as energy in making and shipping new products. It also reinforces the belief that it is easier to replace goods than to mend them, as repair shops are rare and 4 repair methods are often specialized. In 2009, an enterprising movement, the
Repair Café, challenged this widely accepted belief.
[1] More like a 5 fair then, an actual café, the first Repair Café took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [2] It was the brainchild of former journalist Martine Postma, 6 wanting to take a practical stand in a throwaway culture. [3] Her goals were, 7 straightforward, however: reduce waste, maintain and perpetuate knowledge and skills, and strengthen community. [4] Participants bring all manner of damaged articles clothing, appliances, furniture, and more—to be repaired by a staff of volunteer specialists including tailors, electricians, and carpenters. [5] Since the inaugural Repair Café, others have been hosted in theater foyers, community centers, hotels, and auditoriums. [6] While 8 hey await for service, patrons can enjoy coffee and snacks and mingle with their neighbors in need. 9
Though only about 3 percent of the Netherlands’ municipal waste ends up in landfills, Repair Cafés still raise awareness about what may otherwise be mindless acts of waste by providing a venue for people to share and learn valuable skills that are in danger of being lost. 10 It is easy to classify old but fixable items as “junk” in an era that places great emphasis on the next big thing. In helping people consider how the goods they use on a daily basis work and are made, Repair Cafés restore a sense of relationship between human beings and material goods
Though the concept remained a local trend at first, international Repair Cafés, all affiliated with the Dutch Repair Café via its website, have since arisen in France, Germany, South Africa, the United States, and other countries 11 on top of that. The original provides a central source for start-up tips and tools, as well as marketing advice to new Repair Cafés. As a result, the Repair Café has become a global network united by common deals. Ironically, innovators are now looking back to old ways of doing things and applying them in today’s cities in an effort to transform the way people relate to and think about the goods they consume.
SAT Writing & Language Practice Questions
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : from which
Option C : so that
Option D : whereby
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Option D : whereby
because each contains a conjunction that miscommunicates the relationship between the text that precedes and follows the underlined portion.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : usefulness—
Option C : usefulness;
Option D : usefulness
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Option A : No Change
because each provides closing punctuation inconsistent with the punctuation at the beginning of the clause.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 3
Which choice provides the most effectively transition to the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : egregious
Option C : unmitigated
Option D : stark
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Option D : stark
because each provides closing punctuation inconsistent with the punctuation at the beginning of the clause.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 4
Which choice provides information that best supports the claim made by this sentence?
Option A : No Change
Option B : Which choice provides information that best supports the claim made by this sentence?
Option C : no one knows whether something will fall into disrepair again.
Option D : new designs often have “bugs” that must be worked out.
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Option A : No Change
because none provides information that supports the claim made in the sentence
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 5
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : fair than
Option C : fare than
Option D : fair, then
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Option B : fair than
because each contains a misspelling of either “fair” or “than.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 6
Which choice completes the sentence with accurate data based on the graph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : whom wants
Option C : who wanted
Option D : she wanted
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Option C : who wanted
because none contains a pronoun that is appropriate for the referent and placement of the clause.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 7
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : straightforward, therefore:
Option C : straightforward, nonetheless:
Option D : straightforward:
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Option D : straightforward:
because each provides an unnecessary adverb that obscures the relationship between this sentence and the previous one
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 8
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : awaiting
Option C : they waited
Option D : waiting
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Option D : waiting
because each contains a verb form not used with the preposition “for.”
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 9
To make this paragraph most logical, sentence should be placed
Option A : where it is now.
Option B : before sentence 1
Option C : after sentence 3.
Option D : after sentence 6.
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Option C : after sentence 3.
because each creates a paragraph with an inappropriate shift in verb tense and, therefore, an illogical sequence of information.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 10
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : People, who pursue careers in transportation planning,
Option C : People who pursue careers, in transportation planning,
Option D : People who pursue careers in transportation planning,
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Option C : People who pursue careers, in transportation planning,
because “Each misinterprets the relationship between the proposed text and the information in the paragraph.
SAT Writing Practice Test Question No 11
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : varied, and including
Option C : varied and which include
Option D : varied, which include
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Option D : varied, which include
because each presents a word or phrase that results in a redundancy with “and other countries.”
