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1 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of lhis page is illegal. 1 ESSAY ESSAY 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:

shouldn't people put their energies to better use? There will always be unfairness in life, and becoming an adult means finding ways to make the best of this fact. 1 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 1 ESSAY ESSAY 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:

1 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 1 ESSAY ESSAY 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:

1 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 1 ESSAY ESSAY 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:

2 2 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. D D D D SECTION 2 Time - 25 minutes 23 Questions [ Turn to Section 2 (page 4) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Example: Hoping to the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be ------- to both labor and management. • 1. Dave Anderson, founder of a national restaurant chain, promotes -------, encouraging others to start their own businesses.

2 2 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. D D D D Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in each passage and in any introductory material that may be provided. Questions 9-10 are based on the following passage. Questions 11-12 are based on the following passage. Line 5 10 After Ruma's father retired, he began to travel, sending Ruma succinct, impersonal postcard accounts of the things he had seen and done: "Yesterday the Uffizi Gallery. Today a walk to the other side of Arno." Occasionally there was a sentence about the weather. But there was never a sense of her father's presence in those places. It was a one-sided correspondence; his trips were brief enough so that there was no time for Ruma to write back. It was only in his closing that he acknowledged any personal connection between them. "Be happy, love Baba," he them, as if the attainment of happiness were as simple as that. 9. The primary function of the passage is to Line 5 10 During the early development of a new idea, scientists behave rather like artists, driven by temperament. We start off with a hunch, a feeling, even a desire that the world be one way, and then we proceed from that presentiment, often sticking with it long after the data suggest we may be leading ourselves and others down a blind alley. What saves us is that experiment acts as the ultimate referee, settling all disputes. No matter how strong our hunch is, at some point we will have to prove it with facts. Otherwise our hunch, no matter how strongly held, will remain just that. 11. In the first two sentences (lines 1-6), scientists are presented as all of the following EXCEPT (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) describe a pattern of behavior identify a growing conflict portray an uncommon event condone an instance of neglect analyze a fundamental motivation (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) predisposed determined inherently logical somewhat idiosyncratic overly zealous 10. Lines 10-12 (" 'Be ... that") would best be characterized as a 12. In context, the reference to "the ultimate referee" (lines 7-8) serves to emphasize the need for (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) harsh judgment of a blunt command total mockery of a nostalgic sentiment straightforward reading of an ironic comment wistful recollection of an old-fashioned attitude mild criticism of a commonplace expression (A) agility (B) objectivity (C) commitment (D) artistry (E) conflict GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE -8­

2 2 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. D D D D Questions 13-23 are based on the following passage. En this passage, a Hispanic American writer reflects on three she received one day as a child. When I was seven, my parents gave me a doll, a doll's house, and a book, The Arabian Nights, which came wrapped in red tissue paper which I used as a book cover. ine I was just getting ready to read when my mother walked S into my room. "Isn't your doll just beautiful?" my mother asked. I looked at the doll-I'll have to call her "She" because I never gave her a name. She was a fair celluloid creature with blue eyes that matched her ruffled dress. I puckered 10 my lips and raised my eyebrows, not really knowing how to let my mother down easily. "This doll is different," my mother explained, trying to talk me into playing with it. "She says 'Mommy. '" The noises She made sounded more like a cat' s cries IS than a baby's babbles. Thinking that the doll needed love, I hugged her tightly for a long time. Useless, I said to myself finally. I decided to play with the doll's house. But since reananging the tiny furniture seemed to be the only activity possible, I lost interest. I caught sight again of the third of 20 my gifts, The Arabian Nights, and I began to read it. From lhal moment, the book was my constant companion. Every day, after doing my homework, I climbed our guava tree. Nestled among its branches, I read and reread the stories in The Arabian Nights to my heart's content. 2S My mother became concerned as she noticed that I wasn't playing with either the doll or the little house. She wouldn't have dreamed of asking me to give up my reading session, but she began to insist that I take the doll up the tree with me. Trying to read on a branch fifteen feet off the ground ,0 while holding on to the silly doll was not easy. After nearly falling off twice, I devised a way to please my mother and my neck intact. I tied one end of a long vine around the doll's neck and the opposite one around the branch. This way I could let the doll hang in midair while I read. ,S I always looked out for my mother, though. I sensed that my playing with the doll was of great importance to her. So every time I heard her coming, I lifted the doll up and hugged her. The smile in my mother's eyes told me my plan worked. 10 The inevitable happened one afternoon. Totally absorbed in the reading, I did not hear my mother calling me. When I looked down, I saw my mother staring at the dangling doll. Fearing the worst of scoldings, I climbed down in a flash, reaching the groundjust as my mother was untying the doll. 1S To my surprise, she did not scold. She kept on staring at the doll, then she glanced at me. The next day, my father same home early and suggested that he and I play with the doll's house. Soon I was bored, but my father seemed to be having so much fun I didn't have ;0 the heart to tell him. Quietly I slipped out, picking up my book on my way to the yard. Absorbed as he was in ananging and rearranging the tiny furniture, he didn't notice my quick exit. Almost 20 years passed before I found out why the 55 hanging-doll episode had been so significant for my parents. By then I was a parent myself. After recounting the episode amid my father's and my laughter, my mother confessed that all those years she had been afraid I would turn out to be an unnatural mother. She was delighted that I had turned out to 60 be a most loving and understanding mother to my son. My mother often recalls the incident of the hanging doll and thanks God aloud for making me a good parent. Then she as she inventories my vicissitudes in life, pointing out that with my education I might have been a rich dentist 65 instead of a poor poet. I look back at that same childhood incident, recall my third gift, the book in red tissue paper, and I, too, take inventory of the experiences that have made me who and what I am. I pause to marvel at life's wondrous ironies. 13. The mother's question in line 6 is best described as

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D D D D Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 4 D D 0 0 4 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. (' h ~ VI' L-Jh G ~ b f a A= A (w A 2 I bh V=hvh V=M~ c2 2 + Special Right Triangles = a C= 2:rr The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360. The sum of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is !80. 1. Eric planted a tree that was 30 inches tall, and it grew at a constant rate of 20 inches per year for the next 10 years. Which of the following represents the height, in inches, of the tree t years after it was planted, for all values of t between 0 and 10 ?

4 D D D D Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. D D D D 4 JANE'S TELEVISION VIEWING PER DAY Monday !:J !:J t=J Tuesday 158111bal Wednesday 'g~' I:J I!~ggl Thursday !::I Saturday ? Sunday ? !:J =1 hour 3. The pictogram above shows the number of hours Jane watched television each day over the first 5 days in a week. The average (arithmetic mean) number of hours of television that Jane watched per day for the 7 days is 3. Which of the following are possible numbers of hours of television that Jane watched on Saturday and Sunday, respectively?

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--- 4 :> o o o o Unauthorized copying or reuse of ".' any part of this page is illegal. o o o o 4 . 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. Write answer ~~ in boxes. ~ Gridin~-< result. 7 Answer: 12 7 / I 2 • 0 QQQQ ®®® CDCD.CD 000. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0000 0000 .000 L ®®®® 0®®® +--- Fraction line Note: You may start your answers in any column, space permitting. Columns not needed should be left blank . • Decimal Answers: If you obtain a decimal answer with more digits than the grid can accommodate, it may be either rOLmded or truncated, but it must fill the entire grid. For example, if you obtain an answer such as 0.6666 ..., you should record your result as .666 or .667. A less accurate value such as .66 or .67 will be scored as incorrect. Acceptable ways to grid '3') are: 2 / 3 0. C)QGJ.Q ®®® G)CDCDG) 0.00 000. 0000 0000 0@.00 b b b 00 e:QQ Q ®®® CD CD CD CD 0000 0000 0000 0000 0 •• ~ b b 7 00 .:G) CD Q ®®® CDCDG)G) 0000 0000 0000 0000 0 •• 0 \~ 9. By Saturday afternoon, 375 tickets had been sold for a Saturday evening performance at a theater with a capacity of 500 seats. After those 375 tickets were sold, half the members of a group of 210 people each purchased a ticket. If no other tickets were sold prior to the performance, how many tickets remained unsold at the time of the performance? 10. The sum of five adjacent nonoverlapping angles is 180°. Four of the angles each have a measure of xo, and the remaining angle measures 128°. What is the value of x? I GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE> -15­

4 o o o o Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. o o o o 4 11. For three positive prime numbers a, b, and c, ab = 33 and be = 21. What is the value of abc? NUMBER OF CARS SOLD I Color of Car !' Salesperson A B C D , Blue 9 8 iRed 10 8 Black 6 Total 21 70 12. On the basis of the information in the incomplete table above, how many red cars did Salesperson B sell?

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5 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 5 5 5 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. Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Example: Hoping to ------- the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be ------- to both labor and management. GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE -18­

5 5 or reuse of illegal. 5 5 The passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be provided. Questions 6-9 are based on the following passages. Passage 1 Une The world has always been a large place, but in some senses it has become much smaller than it was. As recently as the late nineteenth century, the great science fiction writer Jules Verne wrote the then-unbelievable novel 5 10 Around the World in Eighty Days. Today we can physically circumnavigate the world in one day and electronically orbit the planet in just eight seconds. A truly global outlook is feasible now because of recent developments in transportation and communications. People all over the world have enthusiastically adopted these innovations to reach out and touch others, both physically and electronically, around the Passage 2 15 20 Our world, seemingly global, is in reality a planet of thousands of the most varied and never intersecting provinces. A trip around the world is a journey from backwater to backwater, each of which considers itself, in its isolation, a shining star. For most people, the real world ends on the threshold of their house, at the of the,ir village, or, at the very most, on the border of their valley. That which is beyond is unreal, unimportant, and even useless, whereas that which we have at our fingertips, in our field of vision, expands until it seems an entire universe, overshadowing all else. GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE -19­

5 5 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 5 5 Questions 10-15 are based on the following passage. He said, "There's just a zoo of beasts out there, roaming the solar system. While it's tremendous fun discovering these The follmving passage is adaptedfrom a 1987 book on 50 little planets, the real fun is trying to find out what they are astronomers at an observatory in Cal(fornia. The author and how theyJit into the origin of the solar system." recounts a conversation with the late astronOlner and geologist Eugene Shoemaker. 10. The second paragraph (lines 8-20) serves primarily to Gene said, "We are going to go after something new this (A) provide information about objects referred to in month- Trojan asteroids." He picked up a sheet of the first paragraph computer paper and unfolded it. It was titled "Known (B) draw conclusions based on claims made in the Line Trojans," and it contained a list of heroes from the Trojan first paragraph 5 War--Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Nestor, Priam. Each (C) introduce an argument developed in the rest of the name was that of a minor planet in orbit around the Sun. A passage minor planet is the same thing as an asteroid. (D) present the terms of an ongoing debate There were two clouds of Trojans: one on either side of (E) define key words in a discipline Jupiter and sharing Jupiter's orbit. Trojans were faint, slow­ 10 moving asteroids and darker than anthracite coal, which is 11. The "astronomers" mentioned in line 27 hold the view the reason only 40 Trojan planets had been found. In the that the solar system solar system's main asteroid belt, thousands of other minor (A) appears to lack order planets had been found. The Trojan clouds had never been (B) is made up of uninteresting objects completely explored. Scattered pinpoints of light, barely (C) merits additional human exploration 15 resolvable on the photographic emulsion of a small (D) is older than originally thought telescope, Trojan planets were almost impossible to find. used to include more planets like Earth They fanned out for half a billion miles on either side of Jupiter. Nobody knew for sure how they had gotten-there. 12. Shoemaker's comment "It also happens to be where we Nobody knew for sure what they were made of-except live" (line 32) implies that 20 that it was some dark substance. Many astronomers, weaned on powerful telescopes, are (A) the solar system is of interest for reasons other quintessentially what are known as extragalactic types. To than its astrophysical characteristics many of them the solar system offers little scientific (B) scientists who dismiss the solar system should not challenge-nine balls of nonluminous matter whirling be taken seriously 25 around a (pathetically) normal star, in addition to some (C) humans one day may live on planets outside the gritty stuff, such as asteroids, moons, and comets. Such solar system astronomers view planets as the scrap heaps of the universe (D) astronomers should focus on galaxies beyond the and claim that the only thing the Earth is good for is to solar system serve as a platform for a telescope. (E) the place where humans live is ultimately not 30 Gene Shoemaker offered an oblique reply to defamation important of planets. "The solar system" is an insignificant bunch of dust," he admitted. "It also happens to be where we live." 13. In lines 34-35 ("It ... before"), the author offers a Somewhere in his mind's eye, or maybe in his heart, Gene personal comment in order to carried a peculiar vision of the solar system. It was not any (A) add a conversational tone to an otherwise dry 35 solar system that I had ever heard of before. In schoolbooks summary the solar system is pictured as a series of flat, concentric (B) convey his dismay at the strangeness of circles centered on the Sun, each circle representing the Shoemaker's theory orbit of a planet. In Gene's mind the solar system was a (C) disparage his own previous ignorance of spheroid. In Gene's mind the solar system was not at all the extragalactic astronomy 40 eternal, unvarying mechanism envisioned by seventeenth­ (D) emphasize the distinctiveness of Shoemaker's century scientists like Isaac Newton, but a carnival-a view of the solar system dynamic, evolving cloud of debris, filigreed with bands and (E) reveal his frustration at having to juggle shells of shrapnel, full of bits and pieces of material' liable conflicting scientific explanations to be pumped into ellipses and loops and long, chaotic 45 wobbling orbits which carried drifting projectiles all over the place- minor planets that every once in a while would take a hook into a major planet, causing a major explosion. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE -20­

5 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 5 5 5 14. In context, lines 39-41 ("In Gene's" " "carnival") emphasize which contrast? (A) Stability versus variety and change (B) Order versus rigidity (C) Beauty versus danger (D) Permanence"versus decay and destruction (E) Harmony versus incessant conflict 15. Shoemaker's phrase "zoo of beasts" (line 48) suggests that the solar system (A) needs constant attention (B) is safely contained (C) contains diverse entities (D) can be explored with ease (E) exists for our enjoyment IGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE) -21­

5 5 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. ..... _ ...I' 5 5 Questions 16-25 are based on the folJowing passage. This passage is adaptedjimll the autobiography of an American peliormer and choreographer afmodem dance. Here she discllsses a period during the 1960s when she was attending college and in art history. Although I was working very hard at dance, I had no idea if I was good enough to make it professionally. And even if I did, what was a dancer to this culture'? What did Line saying you were going to be a dancer mean to the guy on 5 the street, to the American middle class earning its living in the real world? How could I explain that there are things that are important in all our lives that can be expressed only in dance, that there are not only physical truths but behavioral values and emotional reservoirs that can be 10 investigated and demonstrated only by bodies in motion? That there are times and situations where words cannot be trusted to do the job? That there is a genuine and specific 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 15 to be. People would have assumed I said that because I was studying painting. It too is a visual art. but unlike dancing, painting makes its truths into a product you can hold. And that can be sold. P

5 5 or reuse of illegal. 5 5 19. Which statement best summarizes the author's answer to the question in lines 22-24 ("But what .. Mother") ?

6 6 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 6 6 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 of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A: if not, select one of the other choices. In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, sentence construction, and punctuation. Your selection should result in the most effective sentence-clear and precise, without awkwardness PI' ambiguity. EXAMPLE: Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book transparent. Arctic sea ice first freezes and it forms layers of ice crystals and these

6 6 6 or reuse of illegal. 6 5. New research indicates that regular aerobic exercise can improve brain performance by its boosting of memory and cognitive processing speed.

- -- 6 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 6 6 6 The following sentences test your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. Each sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The enor, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice E. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English. EXAMPLE: The other delegates and him A B C accepted the resolution drafted the D neutral states. No error E 12. When we went on a camping trip last summer, my A cousin and me rowed across a lake that lies between B C two mountain peaks. No enor E 13. After studying plants that thrive in warm climates B and those that do not, scientists concluding that D a pJant's heat tolerance is determined by a particular gene. No error 14. There ~ basic differences between computer memory A and human memory that make it unlikely that one C can replace the other. No error 15. Having been Leslie's teammate for three basketball A seasons, Claire knew that Leslie had the experience and temperament of a good team captain. -~::::::--=-- No error 16. My uncle's house, like many others built during the B 1950s, were designed in the ranch style that is still C D popular today. No error E 17. As the river current accelerated through the ---= canyon walls, the kayakers had to be ~~~~c~ar~e::.:fu~l to avoid the rocks that would suddenly appear in C D front of them. No error E GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE -26­

6 6 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 6 6 18. A leopard's spots serve as camoutlage not because they were shaped like leaves and branches but A B because they form a micropattern that enables the animal to blend into its woodland background. C D No error E 19. Located on the firefly's lower abdomen is a mass A B of luminescent cells in which oxygen combines with C a substance called luciferin to produce the insect's o distinctive glow. No elTor E 20. In her fiction, Nella Larsen explored the minds of A B her characters in great detail and making them not C only believable but also fascinating to the reader. D No elTor E 21'. A human runner amazed the world in 2004 by winning the Man versus Horse Marathon, it has A B pitted hundreds of people against horses every C year since 1980. No en-or D E 22. Evidence discovered in regions that were once part A of the Roman Empire' suggest that the Romans used B a c~)Vering called a hipposandal to protect their C D horses' hooves. No elTor E 23. If it had been up to my sisters and 1., we A B would have spent every summer vacation at our C cousins' house, which was right on the lake. No elTor D E 24. Greenland's vast glaciers contain so much frozen A B water that should they melt, sea levels would rise C worldwide, altering c?astlines everywhere. No error D E 25. The domed shell of a box turtle is hinged at the A bottom, allowing the animal to close their shell B C I~ tightly to evade predators. No elTor D E 26. The leopard frog, so named because of the A ilTegularly shaped spots on its back and legs, B are found throughout much of North America. C D No elTor E GO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE -27­

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6 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 6 6 6 30. In context, which would be best to place at the beginning of sentence 2 (reproduced below) ? Given the fragility of such materials, preservation should oLltweigh accessibility. damage, such as mold growth, that might otherwise spread.

Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 7 7 SECTION 7 Time -25 minutes 20 Questions Turn to Section 7 (page 6) of your answer sheet to answer the 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. \. The use of a calculator is permitted. A == (w CIvil v=TCr 2h \I Special Right Triangles g C 2TCr v t;v The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360. c:t: The slim of the measures in degrees of the angles of a triangle is 180. 1. MUltiplying a number by ~ gives the same result as dividing that number by which of the following? (A) 1 4 2. The point P is inside how many of the five circles in the figure above? (A) One (B) Two

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Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 7 7 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 18 7. A number is to be selected at random from the list above. What is the probability that the number selected will be a multiple of both 2 and 3 ? (A) 1 8 (B) 4 (C) 3 8 (D) 5 8 (E) 8. Jesse finds that by selecting from the different combinations of the jackets, pants, and shirts that he owns, he can create up to 60 different outfits, each consisting of one jacket, one pair of pants, and one shirt. If he owns 3 jackets and 5 shirts, how many pairs of pants does Jesse own? (A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 CD) 12 (E) 15 9. Which of the following CANNOT be folded along the dashed lines to form a closed cube? (A) ctr (B) (C) (D) 10. Teresita worked part-time for 2 weeks in a pharmacy. During the second week, she worked 1 ~ times the number of hours that she worked during the first week. If she worked a total of 25 hours during the 2-week period, how many hours did Teresita work during the second week? (A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 15 -32­ GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE

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8 8 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is iJlegal. 00 00 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 circle on the answer sheet. Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Example: Hoping to the dispute, negotiators proposed a compremise that they felt would be to both labor and management.

Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part 01 this page is illegal. 00 8 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. 45 are 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 55 young people. '" .. 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 80 and compare the language of texting with that of formal 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 [ GO ON TOTHE NEXT PAGE) -37­

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9 or reuse of illegal. 9 0, 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, ... 3. The sequence above is formed by listing in increasing order all the numbers that are 1 less than the square of a positive integer. What number in the sequence immediately follows 35 ? (A) 44 (B) 45 (C) 48 (D) 49 (E) 50 Note: Figure not drawn to scale. 4. In the figure above, points A, B, and D lie on the circle with center O. If y 60, what is the value of x? (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 60 5. Let r 0 s be defined by r 0 s r (s + rs) for all values of rand s. What is the value of 405? (A) -21 (B) -19 (C) 19 (D) 21 25 IGO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE) -41­

9 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 9 6. If 4 and II > 0, what is the value of I.l ? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 2 4 8 16 64 7. In the xy-plane, the line segment with endpoints (2, 2) and (5, 2) forms one side of a square. What is the perimeter of the square? Titus Mary • Bus ~ Train o Walking G3 Car 8. The figure above shows the times Titus and Mary spent 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 (D) 60 miles (E) 75 miles GO ON TOTHE NEXT PAGE -42­

9 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 9 k 3w + 2 9. In the equation above, if w is increased by 2, by how much does k increase? (A) 2 (B) 3 I j -L I V I / / ~ I 0 I I V =f"(x) . '/ ~ ~ 1 1 J I I I I x 10. The graph of the function f is shown in the xy-plane above. When the graph of f is reflected about the x-axis, the result is, the graph of the function g. What is the value of g(2) ? (A) -2 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2 11. Katy is drawing a time line to represent a 200-year period of time. If she makes the time line 60 inches long and draws it to scale, how many inches will represent each year? 3 (A) 10 (B) 2~ 10 (C) 21 2 (D) 3 1 6 (E) IGO ONTOTHE NEXT PAGE; -43­

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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 Number correct Number correct Number correct Number incorrect Number incorrect 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

____ Scoring Worksheet for Form Codes AEIC, BWIC From your responses on your QAS report, fill in the blanks below and do the calculations to get your critical mathematics and writing raw scores. Use the tables on the following pages to find your scaled scores. Get Your Critical Reading Score How many critical reading questions did you get right? Section 2: Questions 1-23 Section 5: Questions 1-25 Section 8: Questions 1-19 Total = ____ (A) How many critical reading questions did you get wrong? Section 2: Questions 1-23 Section 5: Questions 1-25 Section 8: Questions 1-19 Total x 0.25 = ____ (B) Critical Reading Raw Score Round the critical reading raw score to the nearest whole number. Use the table on page 53 to find your critical reading scaled score. Get Your Mathematics Score How many mathematics questions did you get right? Section 4: Questions 1-18 Section 7: Questions 1-20 +____ _ Section 9: Questions 1-16 Total (A) How many multiple-choice mathematics questions did you get wrong? Section 4: Questions 1-8 Section 7: Questions 1-20 Section 9: Questions 1-16 Total = x 0.25 = __ ...__ (B) A Mathematics Raw Score Round the mathematics raw score to the nearest whole number. Use the table on page 53 to find your mathematics scaled score. Get Your Writing Score How many multiple-choice writing questions did you get right? Section 6: Questions 1-35 Section 10: Questions 1-14 Total = __ .____ (A) How many multiple-choice writing questions did you get wrong? Section 6: Questions 1-35 Section 10: Questions 1-14 Total = ____ _ x 0.25 = ____ (B) A B Writing Multiple-Choice Raw Score Round the writing multiple-choice raw score to the nearest whole number. ______ (C) Use the table on page 53 to find your writing multiple-choice scaled score.­ Copy your essay score from your QAS report. ______ (D) Use the appropriate writing composite table (pages 54-55) for your form code and look up your writing multiple-choice raw score (C) and your essay score (D) to find your writing composite scaled score. -52­

SAT Score Conversion Table Form Codes AElC, BWlC Raw Score Critical Reading Scaled Score Math Scaled Score Writing Multiple- Choice Scaled Score Raw Score Critical Reading Scaled Score Math Scaled Score Writing Multiple- Choice Scaled Score 67 800 31 500 530 53 66 800 30 490 520 52 65 800 29 480 520 51 64 780 28 480 510 51 63 760 27 470 500 50 62 750 26 470 490 49 61 730 25 460 480 48 60 720 24 450 470 47 59 710 23 450 470 46 58 700 22 440 460 45 57 690 21 430 450 44 56 680 20 430 440 44 55 670 19 420 430 43 54 660 800 18 410 430 42 53 650 790 17 410 420 41 52 640 760 16 400 410 40 51 630 740 15 390 400 39 50 620 720 14 390 390 39 49 620 700 80 13 380 390 38 48 610 690 78 12 370 380 37 47 600 680 75 11 360 370 36 46 590 670 73 10 350 360 35 45 590 660 71 9 350 350 34 44 580 650 69 8 340 340 33 43 570 640 68 7 330 330 32 42 570 630 66 6 320 320 31 41 560 620 65 5 310 310 30 40 550 610 63 4 300 300 29 39 550 600 62 3 280 280 27 38 540 590 61 2 270 270 26 37 540 580 60 1 260 24 36 530 580 58 0 240 230 22 35 520 570 57 -1 220 210 20 , 34 520 560 56 -2 200 200 20 33 510 550 55 and 32 500 540 54 below This table is for use only with the test in this booklet. -53­

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