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1、The SATPracticeTest#8Make time to take the practice test.Itsoneofthe best ways to get readyfor the SAT.Afteryouve taken the practice test,score itright away at sat.org/scoring.K-5MSA15 2016 The College Board.College Board,SAT,and the acorn Ico are registered trademarks of the College Board.Test begi
2、ns on the next page.Reading Test65 MINUTES,52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.DIRECTIONSEach passage or pairof passages below is followed by a number of questions.After readingeach passage or pair,choose the best answer to each question based o
3、n what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is from Carlos Ruiz Zafon,The Angels Game.2008 by Dragonworks,S.L.Translation 2009 byLucia Graves.The narrator,a writer,recall
4、s his childhood inearly twentieth-century Barcelona.Even then my only friends were made of paperand ink.At school I had learned to read and writelong before the other children.Where my schoolUne friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible5 pages,I saw light,streets,and people.Words and themystery
5、 of their hidden science fascinated me,and Isaw in them a key with which I could unlock aboundless world,a safe haven from that home,thosestreets,and those troubled days in which even Iio could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me.My father didnt like to see books in the house.There was some
6、thing about them-apart from theletters he could not decipher that offended him.He used to tell me that as soon as I was ten he wouldis send me off to work and thatfd better get rid of allmy scatterbrained ideas if I didnt want to end up aloser,a nobody.I used to hide my books under themattress and w
7、ait for him to go outor fall asleep sothat I could read.Once he caught me reading at night20 and flew into a rage.He tore the book from myhands and flung it out of the window.z/If I catch you wasting electricity again,readingall this nonsense,youll be sorry/My father was not a miser and,despite the2
8、5 hardships we suffered,whenever he could he gave mea few coins so that I could buy myself some treats liketheotherchildren.Hewasconvincedthatlspentthem on licorice sticks,sunflower seeds,or sweets,but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed,30 and when Vd collected four or five reales Id se
9、cretlyrush out to buy myself a book.My favorite place in the whole city was theSempere&Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Ana.Itsmelled of old paper and dust and it was my35 sanctuary,my refuge.The bookseller would let me siton a chair in a corner and read any book I liked tomy hearf s content.He hardly e
10、ver allowed me to payfor the books he placed in my hands,bu t when hewasnt looking Vd leave the coins Id managed to40 collect on the counter before I left.It was only smallchange-ifFd had to buy a book with that pittance,Iwould probably have been able to a仔ord only abooklet of cigarette papers.When
11、it was time for meto leave,I would do so dragging my feet,a weight on45 my soul.If it had been up to me,I would have stayedthere forever.One Christmas Sempere gave me the best gift Ihave ever received.lt was an old volume,read andexperienced to the full.so/Great Expectations,by Charles Dickens,1 rea
12、don the cover.Iwas aware that Sempere knew a few authors whofrequented his establishment andjudgingby the carewith which he handled the volume,I mought55 perhaps this Mr.Dickens was one of them.“A friend of yours?”z/A lifelong friend.And from now on,hes yourfriend too.”Unauthorized copying or reuse
13、of any part of this page is illegal.2CONTINUEThat afternoon I took my new friend home,60 hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldntsee it.It was a rainy winter,with days as gray as lead,and I read Great Expectations about nine times,partly because I had no other book at hand,partlybecause I d
14、id not think there could be a better one in65 the whole world and I was beginning to suspect thatMr.Dickens had written itjust for me.Soon I wasconvinced that I didnt want to do anything else inlife but learn to do what Mr.Dickens had done.3With which of the following statements about hisfather woul
15、d the narrator most likely agree?A)He lacked affection for the narrator.B)He disliked any unnecessary use of money.C)He would not have approved ofSemperes gift.D)He objected to the writings of Charles Dickens.Over the course of the passage,the main focus shiftsfrom aA)general discussion of the narra
16、tors love ofreading toa portrayal of an influential incident.B)depiction of the narrators father to anexamination of an author with whom thenarrator becomes enchanted.C)symbolic representa tion of a skill the narra torpossesses to an example ofits application.D)tale about the hardships of the narrat
17、orschildhood to an analysis of the effects of thosehardships.The main purpose of lines 1-10(Evenawaitedme,/)is toA)introduce the characters who play a part in thenarrators story.B)list the difficult conditions the narrator enduredin childhood.C)describe the passion that drives the actions thenarrato
18、r recounts.D)depict the narrators aspirations before he metSempere.Which choice provides the best evidence for theanswer to the previous question?A)Lines24-27(My father.children)B)Lines35-37(The bookseller.contenf,)C)Lines37-38(zzH ehardly.hands)D)Lines59-61(That afternoon.see it)It can reasonably b
19、e inferred from the passage thatthe main reason that the narrator considers GreatExpecta Hon s to be the best gift he ever received isbecauseA)reading the book convinced him that he wantedto be a writer.B)hed only ever been given sweets and snacks asgifts in the past.C)the gift meant that Sempere he
20、ld him in highregard.D)Sempere was a friend of the books author.Which choice provides the best evidence for theanswer to the previous question?A)Lines 38-40(when.left)B)Lines 48-49(zzIt w asfull)C)Lines52-55(zzIwas.them,/)D)Lines66-68(zzSoon.done,/)Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this p
21、age is illegal.3CONTINUE7The narrator indicates that he pays SempereA)less than Sempere expects him to pay forthe books.B)nothing,becauseSemperewonttakehismoney.C)the money he makes selling sweets to the otherchildren.D)much less for the books than they are worth.As used in line 44,“weight most near
22、ly meansA)bulk.B)burden.C)force.D)clout.The word“friend is used twice in lines 57-58 toA)underline the importance of the narratorsconnection to Sempere.B)stress how friendships helped the narrator dealwith his difficult home situation.C)emphasize the emotional connection Semperefeels to reading.D)im
23、ply that the narra tof s sentiments caused himto make an irrational decision.EBIWhich statement best characterizes the relationshipbetween Sempere and Charles Dickens?A)Sempere models his own writing afterDickenss style.B)Sempere is an avid admirer of Dickenss work.C)Sempere feels a personal connect
24、ion to details ofDickenss biography.D)Sempere considers himself to be Dickenss mostappreciative reader.Questions 11-21 are based on the followingpassageand supplementary material.This passage is adapted from Jeffrey Mervis,zzWhy NullResults Rarely See the Light of Day.w 2014 by AmericanAssociation f
25、or the Advancement of Science.The question of what to do with nullresults-when researchers fail to see an effect thatshould be detectable has long been hotly debatedUne among those conducting medical trials,where the5 results can have a big impact on lives and corporatebottom lines.More recently,the
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