Hi SAT Aspirants, welcome to AKVTutorials. As you know SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) is a standard test, used for taking admission to undergraduate programs of universities or colleges of United States. SAT is developed and published by the College Board, an organization in United States, administered by the Educational Testing Service. Therefore, you need to do practice on SAT Reading Section, SAT Writing and Language Section. In this article, you will get SAT Writing Practice Questions Paper 35 with Answer Keys AMBIPi.
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: The Igbo People of West Africa.
The Igbo people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, residing mostly in eastern Nigeria. In postcolonial times, they have worked hard to unite themselves culturally and to rebuild and maintain many of their traditions and ethnic 1 deviations.
The Igbo were traditionally an agricultural 2 people who’s way of life centered 3 towards the yam. Most meals in some way involved yams, and a man was judged by his yam crop each growing season. Other agricultural products, 4 included cassava, coco-yams, and palm wine.
Before the arrival of British colonists in the 1800s, the Igbo dwelled as loosely associated tribes 5 united together, by a common language. Each tribe comprised several villages linked by a common market. Each village consisted of a network of family compounds, with houses typically made of mud walls and thatched roofs. One man could have multiple wives, and each wife would have her own dwelling for herself and her children. 6 As a man’s stature in the village was judged by the yield of his yam crop, a woman’s honor depended on the size and prosperity of her family.
7 Christianity has been converted to now by most Igbo people. Their traditional religion was polytheistic. They believed in a creator god but did not relate directly to him, focusing 8 their. worship instead on a number of deities associated with nature-related forces like the weather and fertility. Oracles, priests, and priestesses spoke for the gods and acted as 9 doctors, and these used various concoctions and incantations to address illnesses and other troubles. Many Igbo people today practice a blend of Christianity and traditional rituals.
At the time of colonization, Europeans assumed that African tribes were thoroughly uncivilized. 10 Only after much conflict and negotiation with the Igbo did the colonists begin to under stand them. Even ceremonial objects had a role in resolving disputes and of maintaining justice. For example, the fierce-looking masks that now sit in museums as works of art 11 were crafted from padauk wood and painted with milk-based ochre pigment.
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 : discrepancies
Option C : divisions
Option D : distinctions
Answer
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Option D : distinctions
because Distinctions, which refers to the important or unique qualities of something, is the correct word here.
Question No 2
Which of the following options is the most effective?
Option A : No Change
Option B : people’s
Option C : people whose
Option D : people whom
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Option C : people whose
because The contraction who’s means who is. We want the possessive whose.
Question No 3
Which choice provides the most effectively transition to the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : about
Option C : on
Option D : at
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Option C : on
because The correct idiom is on.
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 : included
Option C : included;
Option D : included:
Answer
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Option A : NO CHANGE
because There is no punctuation needed after the verb included.
Question No 5
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : united
Option C : united as a group
Option D : united as one
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Option B : united
because The wrong answer choices are all redundant.
Question No 6
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : since
Option C : just as
Option D : until
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Option C : just as
because The sentence draws a similarity between a man’s stature and a woman’s honor. The correct word here is just as.
Question No 7
Which choice most effectively combines the underlined sentences?
Option A : NO CHANGE
Option B : While most Igbo people have now converted to Christianity, their traditional reli gion was polytheistic.
Option C : Their traditional religion being polytheistic, most Igbo people have now converted to Christianity.
Option D : Most Igbo people have now converted to Christianity; furthermore, their traditional religion was polytheistic.
Answer
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Option B : While most Igbo people have now converted to Christianity, their traditional reli gion was polytheistic.
because The two sentences contrast with each other. The use of the word while in answer B best expresses that contrast.
Question No 8
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : no change
Option B : there
Option C : they’re
Option D : its
Answer
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Option A : NO CHANGE
because We want the plural possessive their, which refers to the Igbo people.
Question No 9
Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : doctor, with the use of
Option C : doctors for using
Option D : doctor, using
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Option D : doctor, using
because D is the most concise and doesn’t change the intended meaning like answer C does.
Question No 10
Which choice most effectively sets up the information that follows?
Option A : No Change
Option B : They didn’t wear shoes and relied on hunting for food.
Option C : The laws and traditions of the Igbo people, however, bound them together and brought order.
Option D : Europe had developed an infrastructure that supported clean water and organized government.
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Option C : The laws and traditions of the Igbo people, however, bound them together and brought order.
because The following sentence talks about resolving disputes and maintaining justice within the Igbo commu nity.
Question No 11
Which choice completes the sentence with accurate data based on the graph?
Option A : No Change
Option B : held an essential function in their society.
Option C : attract many historians curious about the Igbo.
Option D : allowed the tribal elders to ask the ancestral sprits for wisdom for wisdom concerning important issues.
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Option D : allowed the tribal elders to ask the ancestral sprits for wisdom for wisdom concerning important issues.
because Answer B is too vague. Answer D is the one most relevant to the idea of resolving disputes and maintaining order in the previous sentences.
