fandomhigh | SAT Prep [Workshop #3]

"Today we're going to focus on the Critical Reading portion of the exam. This is broken down into two sections: sentence completion and passage-based reading questions. I've prepared a handout with some practice questions for you all."

Sentence Completions

1. Hoping to ------- the dispute, Principal Winchester proposed a compromise that they felt would be ------- to both the gremlins and the school administration.

(A) enforce . . useful
(B) end . . divisive
(C) overcome . . unattractive
(D) extend . . satisfactory
(E) resolve . . acceptable

2. Professor Skywalker's radical ideas were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too ------- for their conservative tastes.

(A) heretical
(B) meticulous
(C) precise
(D) incoherent
(E) sagacious

3. My former classmates think I am a genuine ------- : my stories about Fandom High fascinate them.

(A) braggart
(B) dilettante
(C) pilferer
(D) prevaricator
(E) raconteur

Passage-Based Reading

*________ All attention turned to Marty when he ran into the gym.
*________ "Don't eat the snickerdoodles!" he shouted, overturning
*________ the table containing the trays of the aforementioned cookies.
*________ "The snickerdoodles are made of people!" he informed the
line 5___ room at large.
*________ The assorted guests were properly shocked by this pronouncment,
*________ especially those who had already partaken of the cookies. Two
*________ people were displaying anger, rather than shock. Veronica
*________ approached her friend. "Marty, what is wrong with you?" she
line 10__ asked. "The cookies are not made from people."
*________ "They are! They are!" he insisted, his arms flailing wildly.
*________ "Veronica," Piper said, noticing something. "It looks like he
*_________ was bit. I see a mark on his wrist."
*_________ That information made Veronica relax a bit. She was still
line 15___ concerned for her friend, but knowing the effects were likely
*_________ to fade within a few hours lessened her worry. "Veronica, is he
*_________ going to be okay?" Angela asked, approaching her boyfriend.
*_________ "It's a gremlin bite," Veronica told her.

1. In line 5, "large" most nearly means:

(A) of more than average size
(B) grand or pompous
(C) as a whole
(D) famous; successful; important
(E) of great scope or range

2. From the reading, it can be surmised that the people who baked the cookies were:

(A) Veronica and Marty
(B) Veronica and Piper
(C) Piper and Angela
(D) Angela and Marty
(E) Unable to surmise from the info given

3. The reactions of the crowd to Marty's statement allows the reader to infer what attitude towards eating people from that culture:

(A) disgust
(B) tolerance
(C) excitement
(D) commonstance
(E) no reaction

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Savannah Levine

Jennifer Walters

T.R. Wexler

Harper Finkle

Sam Winchester

Jon O'Neill

You are welcome to chat amongst yourselves or help each other with the practice questions.

Savannah was very focused as she went over the practice questions.

Jennifer read through the questions and got a very puzzled expression on her face.

These examples were a bit odd. But amusingly so, when she understood the joke.

Sam was pretty sure that the actual SAT wouldn't cause so much snickering, but this still seemed like very good practice.

Now if only the real SAT was this amusing, he might actually want to take it.

Clinging to a coffee that she didn't even like, Turtle couldn't help thinking it was way to early to focus on stuff like this. Again. But she picked up a pencil to start digging at the questions on the paper.

And was actually pleasantly surprised by what she found when she got to them. A Fandom specialized test like this would be so awesome...

Edited 2009-05-26 20:08 (UTC)

After he pings in

Harry was there, reading over the handout himself. He was, as usual, happy to try and help.

She's around.

... I don't even know.

The snickerdoodles ARE made of people.

Ahahahaha best quiz ever.

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