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1.	Have you ever known anyone who dreads nothing so much as social friction and will resort to the basest . . . . rather than endure an awkward confrontation? (A) effrontery (B) derision (C) subterfuge (D) obstreperousness (E) impudence
2.	Because none of the word-forming elements of key . . . . languages has been "preserved in the rocks," unlike the paleontological record of extinct marker plants and animals, morphological proof of the prevailing theory that all human languages have a common ancestor remains necessarily . . . .. (A) archaic . . . spurious (B) archetypal . . . conjectural (C) defunct . . . invalid (D) extant . . . pretentious (E) scatological . . . fallacious
3.	In Defense of Elitism, the . . . . swan song by the late, liberal Democrat and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, William A. Henry III, is a bluntly argued but subtly reasoned . . . . the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism - the philosophy that lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing down of America." (A) paradoxical . . . counterpoint to (B) persuasive . . . counterpart to (C) logical . . . justification of (D) controversial . . . conformity with (E) disingenuous . . . defiance of
4.	The author so skillfully . . . . the difference between fantasy and reality, that his mind-boggling phased transformation between a salamander in an aquarium and its transfixed viewer waxes . . . . (A) blends . . . illogical (B) depicts . . . uncertain (C) contrasts . . . dubious (D) portrays . . . paradoxical (E) blurs . . . plausible
	Directions: Based on what is stated or implied in the passage, click the answer to question 5.

	Words are indispensable but also can be fatal - the only begetters of all civilization, all angelic goodness, and the only begetters
5.	at the same time of all superstition, all collective madness and stupidity, all worse-than-bestial diabolism, all the dismal, historical succession
10.	of crimes in the name of God, King, Nation, Party, Dogma. Never before, thanks to the techniques of mass communication, have so many
15.	listeners been so completely at the mercy of so few speakers. Never have misused words- those hideously efficient tools of all tyrants, war-mongers,
20.	persecutors, and heresy hunters- been so widely and disastrously

	influential as they are today. Generals, politicians, clergymen, advertisers, and rulers of
25.	totalitarian states - all have good reasons for disliking the idea of universal education in the rational use of the language. To the military, government,
30.	clerical, propagandist, and authoritarian mind such training seems (and rightfully seems) profoundly subversive.

5. The author will most likely go on to discuss:

(A)	education and language acquisition
(B)	decodification of linguistic symbols
(C)	symbolic language and communication
(D)	the codification of reality through language
(E)	propaganda and mass communication

(A) the quantity in Column A is greater;
(B) the quantity in Column B is greater;
(C) the quantities in Column A and Column B are equal;
(D) more information is needed to draw any conclusion.
(E) the quantity in Column A is exactly half the value of the quantity in Column B.

Column A	Column B

Let k be an integer > 0

the number of distinct arrangements of k knights seated at a round table

the number of distinct arrangements of k keys on a circular key ring

The back-to-back 1994-95 NBA world-champion Houston Rockets had five starters that ranged in height from 6-feet-2-inch Kenny Smith to 6-feet-11-inch Hakeem Olajuwan. Which of the following could NOT be the average height of basketballs champion Rockets?

I. 6 feet 3 inches
II. 6 feet 7 inches
III. 6 feet 8 inches
(A) I. only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) II and III only

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

SAT problem #9 requires a student produced response.

If a planet the size of Earth were a perfect sphere, and a television cable were made to circumscribe its equator, dividing the planet into two equal hemispheres, approximately how many feet of additional cable would be needed to elevate the cable exactly one foot above the surface of the planet?

GRID-IN MATH


0	0	0	0
1	1	1	1
2	2	2	2
3	3	3	3
4	4	4	4
5	5	5	5
6	6	6	6
7	7	7	7
8	8	8	8
9	9	9	9

10.

Directions: Use one set of given answer choices to solve two parts (10a and 10b); first, by completing the two blanks with

10a: only . . . only ,

and then, by completing the blanks with

10b: singular . . . singular

Construct

nouns with exactly half of L number of letters in the (ABC's). Each noun has at least N letters. Construct

verbs with the remaining letters in the (ABC's). Each verb has at least V letters. If exactly 11.2% of the letters in the (ABC's) remain unconstructed, how many nouns could you construct?

10a.

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)Cannot be determined
from the given data.

10b.

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) Cannot be determined
from the given data.

11.

The rhetorical use of fewer words to express an idea is efficiency. For example, the three-word, active-voice sentence, Faulkner found fulfillment, is more efficacious than the five-word passive voice equivalent, fulfillment was found by Faulkner. However, in the majority of cases, the by-agent of passive voice is left unexpressed: fulfillment can be forfeited.

Directions: In 15 words or fewer, write an essay that (in no particular order) MUST include the following: communication, conception, exclamation, religion, royalty and mystery.