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Instruction:
- In the passage below is accompanied by a number of questions.
- For some questions, you need to think how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas.
- For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation.
- Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage.
- Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
SAT Writing & Language Section Passage
SAT Writing Passage Title: SUSHI
An ancient emperor once enjoyed a special dessert so much that he kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo, who was the first European to record his travels in. 1 China and took the dessert to Italy. That delicious dessert was ice cream. This fact may come as a surprise since 2 many people think Chinese food tends to be associated with chop suey rather than 3 the creation of the ice cream What’s ironic is that chop suey didn’t even originate in China, but in Chinese restaurants in America that wanted to cater to Western tastes.
Just as ice cream was invented in one place before its rise in popularity elsewhere, the sushi that Japan is famous for was first created in Southeast Asia and then spread to Southern China before it was introduced in Japan. The original type of sushi, called “nigiri,” is typically made by hand. The cook takes a small amount of vinegared rice and presses 4 these into a round shape. Sliced raw fish is then placed on top. 5 Tuna is the most widely used fish for sushi among the Japanese, but other kinds of seafood-salmon, lobster, eel, octopus, and squid are also much appreciated. Despite sushi’s 6 simplicity but it usually takes more than a year to learn how to make sushi with the proper technique.
In Japan, there are several different types of sushi restaurants competing with each other. Of course, there’s the convenient take-out sushi available at most fast food places. Then there are the sushi bar restaurants where diners are served by a chef at the bar or a waiter at a table. Kaiten sushi is a restaurant in which a revolving conveyer 7 belt that goes round and round, allows, a customer to select their own food. There are even restaurants where one can fish for. 8 their own food. There are even restaurants where one can fish for 9 your own meal. The prices of sushi 10 is different depending on the quality of the fish and the experience of the restaurant. For example, 11 salmon may cost $5 per piece at a sushi bar but only $4 per piece at a kaiten sushi restaurant.
SAT Writing & Language Practice Questions
Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : china, took
Option C : china, talking
Option D : china, and had taken
Answer
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Option B : china, took
because he who clause after Marco Polo must be set off by a pair of commas. What remains must still be a sentence.
Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : the common misconception is that .
Option C : it’s widely known that
Option D : OMIT the underlined portion.
Answer
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Option D : OMIT the underlined portion.
because The incorrect answer choices are redundant.
Question No 3
Which choice provides the most effectively transition to the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : making ice cream.
Option C : the invention of ice cream.
Option D : ice cream.
Answer
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Option D : ice cream.
because The comparison must make sense: chop suey rather than ice cream. Compare food with food.
Question No 4
Which choice results in the most effective transition to the information that follows in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : them
Option C : it
Option D : OMIT the underlined portion.
Answer
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Option C : it
because vinegared rice is a singular noun, we need a singular pronoun to refer to it.
Question No 5
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.
Raw fish is an acquired taste and may take a while to get used to.
Should the writer make this addition here?
Option A : Yes, because it explains why not all people enjoy sushi.
Option B : Yes, because it encourages readers to keep eating sushi.
Option C : No, because the focus of paragraph is more about making sushi than eating it.
Option D : No, because it contradicts sushi’s popular ity, which is mentioned previously in the essay.
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Option C : No, because the focus of paragraph is more about making sushi than eating it.
because Nowhere in the paragraph is eating sushi ever brought up.
Question No 6
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : simplicity
Option C : simplicity, and
Option D : simplicity in that
Answer
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Option B : simplicity
because We’re not connecting two independent clauses so there is no need for a conjunction. Answer D produces a long sentence fragment.
Question No 7
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : belt allows
Option C : belt, allows
Option D : belt that spins allows
Answer
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Option B : belt allows
because Answers A and D have redundant words since the belt is already described as a revolving one. Answer C has an unnecessary comma-don’t separate the subject (belt) and verb (allows) of a clause with a comma.
Question No 8
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No change
Option B : there
Option C : our
Option D : his or her
Answer
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Option D : his or her
because The pronoun must refer to the singular noun customer. Remember that his or her is a singular pronoun.
Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : one’s
Option C : his or her
Option D : their
Answer
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Option B : one’s
because The phrase one can fish establishes that the sentence is from one’s point of view. We must keep that point of view consistent.
Question No 10
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : are
Option C : were
Option D : had been
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Option B : are
because The plural subject prices must be paired with the plural verb are. Furthermore, the sentence is in the present tense.
Question No 11
Which choice most accurately and effectively represents the information in the graph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : tuna may be $2 a piece at a fast food stall but $5 at a kaiten sushi restaurant.
Option C : a piece of salmon may cost $2 at a fast food stall but $5 at a sushi bar.
Option D : a piece of tuna may be $4 at a kaiten sushi restaurant but $7 at a sushi bar.
Answer
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Option D : a piece of tuna may be $4 at a kaiten sushi restaurant but $7 at a sushi bar.
because The prices of tuna are represented by the darker bars. At a kaiten sushi restaurant, the price per piece of tuna is $4. At a sushi bar, the price is $7. This makes answer D correct. The other answer choices do not accurately reflect the graph.
