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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 and Language Practice Test Passage Title: El Sistema: Venezuela’s Revolutionary Music Education
1 Music education programs vary greatly from country to country: the school bell rings, signaling the end of the school day, and all the children race to the nearest music center, or núcleo. They play violins, clarinets, drums and other instruments for hours, learning techniques from teachers and from their peers—and this publicly-funded music instruction is open to all children. What you’re picturing might sound like a fantasy, but in the South American nation of Venezuela, El Sistema (“The System”), a comprehensive music education program that serves over 300,000 children, is a reality.
[1] El Sistema, the nickname for the Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar, was founded in 1975 by Dr. José Antonio Abreu. [2] He envisioned this government-funded program not only as a vehicle for music instruction, but also for social change. [3] Disappointed that Venezuela did not have its own 2 orchestra—Abreu wanted to educate children about classical music on the national level. [4] By providing safe spaces for children from crime-ridden neighborhoods to practice music, the government would be both protecting children and showing them that there were other avenues to success than criminal activity. [5] Abreu also believed that the opportunity to play music is a basic human right, and he wanted to 3 reinsure that all children had access to it. 4
The Venezuelan government began implementing Abreu’s ideas right 5 away by the end of 1975, it had opened the first núcleos. More soon opened, and students congregated 6 together these centers after school to play music. Children could attend classes from an early age; two-year-olds started learning the basics of rhythm even before they reached the regular classroom. The number of núcleos has grown from just a few in the beginning to over 300 today. They now operate from 2 to 6 p.m. six days a week, and the government 7 funding every facet of the program, from the instruments to the teachers. Over 800,000 young Venezuelans have learned music through El Sistema in the 40 years since 8 their inception.
El Sistema has 9 propelled some of these young people into music careers. In 2002, Edicson Ruiz, a product of El Sistema, became Berlin Philharmonic’s youngest professional bass player at age 17. Gustavo Dudamel, another graduate of the program, is the music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and became the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009. 10 As Abreu says, “A child’s physical poverty is overcome by the spiritual richness that music provides.” 11 Abreu’s bold idea—to provide music education for all—has launched a few music careers but even more importantly, it has given almost a million children the joy of playing music.
SAT Writing and Language Practice Test Questions
Question No 1
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : Imagine the following scenario:
Option C : Some people think the following situation would be great:
Option D : Music education programs offer many benefits:
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Option B : Imagine the following scenario:
Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : orchestra, Abreu
Option C : orchestra; Abreu
Option D : orchestra: Abreu
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Option B : orchestra, Abreu
Question No 3
Which choice provides the most effectively transition to the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : ensure
Option C : assure
Option D : reassure
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Option B : ensure
Question No 4
To make paragraph 2 most logical, sentence 2 should be placed
Option A : where it is now.
Option B : after sentence 3.
Option C : after sentence 4.
Option D : after sentence 5.
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Option B : after sentence 3.
Question No 5
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : away
Option C : away;
Option D : away, it was
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Option C : away;
Question No 6
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : with each other
Option C : all together
Option D : DELETE the underlined portion.
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Option D : DELETE the underlined portion.
Question No 7
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : had funded
Option C : will fund
Option D : funds
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Option D : funds
Question No 8
The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
Option A : NO CHANG
Option B : its
Option C : his
Option D : Our
Answer
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Option B : its
Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : mobilized
Option C : plunged
Option D : pitched
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Option A : No Change
Question No 10
Which choice best sets up the quotation that follows?
Option A : Not all students become professionals, of course, but all benefit from the program
Option B : Audiences from all over the world have benefited from the talent of these two Venezuelan musicians.
Option C : Dudamel left Venezuela, but he has not forgotten the skills he learned through the program.
Option D : Dudamel left Venezuela, but he has not forgotten the skills he learned through the program.
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Option A : Not all students become professionals, of course,
but all benefit from the program
Question No 11
The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
Option A : Kept, because it concludes the passage by celebrating Abreu’s contributions.
Option B : Kept, because it provides information about the number of children who have benefited from the program.
Option C : Deleted, because it introduces an idea about Abreu instead of concluding the passage.
Option D : Deleted, because it provides contradictory information about the students’ music careers introduced earlier in the paragraph.
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Option A : Kept, because it concludes the passage by celebrating Abreu’s contributions.
