SAT Practice Questions

change        so employees will work more efficiently. Nicholson's ideas are

Video arcade game usage continued strongly in the 1980s.

Pac-Man was the first game to attract       

Tooby and Cosmides believe natural selection through the generations has prepared.

According to Nicholson, these senior executives are engaging in        and we should not try to change  …

how the depiction of human labour involved danger to an artist

a reference to an artist who celebrated a number of unfinished structures

Paragraph D

Papermakers from Samarkand were captured by the Chinese.

When discussing the use of rhesus monkeys as experimental subjects, the writer notes that

Papermaking skills were brought to Europe via North Africa.

Paragraph B

a combination of contradictory signals

the production of soft sounds

In the first paragraph, the writer points out that

parchment made from the skin of animals such as       

skin was dried and       

       of the plant were softened in water, woven and pounded

Graham Bodman

       of a mulberry tree and hemp rags

In the fourth paragraph, the writer notes that the three related situations

Paragraph C

The researchers noted that they seemed to be unaware of the        who were around them.

prolonged stillness

They videotaped their results and found that monkeys as young as        reacted to the cues but in a haphazar…

Paragraph A

Further, they created pleasant, functional interiors that could still be built within their        Finally, t…

In Ancient China, writing was occasionally done on silk.

The oldest group, however, reacted in the same way as        and the researchers concluded that monkeys are c…

The end of the trade in rags was brought about by the difficulty of transporting them.

Stuart Bracey

James Lundy

One aspect of the Talbot Park project that some critics are concerned about is that the higher        of acco…

appeals for maternal protection

Coloured paper was invented during the Tang Dynasty.

Place:        (751 AD — materials flax and hemp — mills made of stone were used)

Which of the following did Kalin and Shelton outline as the second stage in their research project?

When Gutenberg invented movable type, paper materials were very expensive.

Paragraph F

Papermaking as a large-scale industry originated in Iran.

Once they had identified three types of defensive behaviour, Kalin and Shelton grouped the monkeys according to their    &nb…

aggressive facial expressions

Despite demonstrating        , the monkeys in the middle groups failed to react in ways corresponding to the …

Paragraph E

mills made of        used were

Paragraph G

prevent this, a team of various        worked on the project to ensure the buildings were not uniform. Furthe…

How old Mungo Man is, is unimportant.

Our human ancestors did not originate in only one area.

Koster believes that games remove people's fear of       

The extinction of the megafauna happened within a brief period.

Scientists agree about the age of Mungo Man.

Thorne's research involved analysing more than one material.

Daniel Dennett

Kevin O'Regan

The aging process increases the need to fill in gaps in our visual perception.

Early games were much simpler than more recent ones

Robertson's view is that games feel exciting partly because of the        that is associated with them.

Players' involvement in games often includes thinking ahead.

The megafauna died out as a result of human activity.

Section E

One expert expressed regret for having underemphasized his argument in a publication.

Section A

Bowler has criticised the research methods used by Thorne.

Section F

Research into cognitive errors might potentially save lives.

Objects found in the Lake Mungo area were used to date the arrival of humans.

Our eyes are only at risk of being deceived when they are in motion.

The fact that we make visual errors

Section C

There is evidence to disprove the theory of mass megafauna extinction.

We overlook insignificant items that come into our view.

The earliest evidence of advanced human culture is found in Australia.

It's now accepted that creating video games is a skill that can be learned.

The similarity of results does not always guarantee their validity.

Section D

John Grimes

Stephen Kosslyn

The part of the picture that we fail to see clearly

An extreme environmental change occurred at the time that humans first moved into the Lake Mungo area.

Ancient weapons were found in the Lake Mungo area.

Section B

The idea that we see everything in our visual field

Concentrating on a particular aspect of an activity or scene

Research into the nature of human vision

The inclusion of unanticipated elements keeps players interested.

Narrative games are often structured so that the first and last part are both        .

Which of the following is mentioned in the article in relation to classroom-based learning?

Some physical evidence of Uruk still exists in Iraq.

The ability of online courses to meet an individual participant's needs is unclear.

If it takes too long to find one kind of prey, animals will look for an alternative source food.

Researchers caution against building strong online relationships.

Research on the impacts of interaction on learning outcomes has produced consistent results.

examples of animals that use camouflage to look like plants

were built in the shape of large       

The fangblenny impersonates the striped cleaner wrasse, a fish that is welcomed by other specie as it getsrid of their    &n…

a food       

one species has a camouflage tactic that is not present from birth.

Part of an animals is left behind to distract predators.

Common assumptions about the benefits of face-to-face courses have proved to be correct.