Reading And Writing Test 1 Sat Examination

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • NASA uses rovers, large remote vehicles with wheels, to explore the surface of Mars. • NASA’s rovers can’t explore regions inaccessible to wheeled vehicles. • Rovers are also heavy, making them difficult to land on the planet’s surface. • Microprobes, robotic probes that weigh as little as 50 milligrams, could be deployed virtually anywhere on the surface of Mars. • Microprobes have been proposed as an alternative to rovers. The student wants to explain an advantage of microprobes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. • Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in East Africa and currently lives in the United Kingdom. • Many readers have singled out Gurnah’s 1994 book *Paradise* for praise. • *Paradise* is a historical novel about events that occurred in colonial East Africa. The student wants to introduce *Paradise* to an audience unfamiliar with the novel and its author. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia. • The city’s population is 907,802. • Ulaanbaatar contains 31.98 percent of Mongolia’s population. • Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam. • The city’s population is 7,781,631. • Hanoi contains 8.14 percent of Vietnam’s population. Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the relative sizes of the two capitals’ populations?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• One of history’s greatest libraries was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Iraq.
• It was founded in the eighth century with the goal of preserving all the world’s knowledge.
• Scholars at the House of Wisdom collected ancient and contemporary texts from Greece, India, and elsewhere and translated them into Arabic.
• Writings included those of the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Indian mathematician Aryabhata.
• The House of Wisdom used Chinese papermaking technology to create paper versions to be studied and shared.
The student wants to explain how the House of Wisdom preserved the world’s knowledge.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• British musicians John Lennon and Paul McCartney shared writing credit for numerous Beatles songs.
• Many Lennon-McCartney songs were actually written by either Lennon or McCartney, not by both.
• The exact authorship of specific parts of many Beatles songs, such as the verse for “In My Life,” is disputed.
• Mark Glickman, Jason Brown, and Ryan Song used statistical methods to analyze the musical content of Beatles songs.
• They concluded that there is 18.9% probability that McCartney wrote the verse for “In My Life,” stating that the verse is “consistent with Lennon’s songwriting style.” The student wants to make a generalization about the kind of study conducted by Glickman, Brown, and Song. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?