SAT Warm Ups Point value Minus 10 points

SAT Warm Ups Point value (Minus 10 points for each missing entry): 9 entries = 110 points 8 entries = 100 points

SAT Question of the Day - READ BELOW Things to write: DATE, copy the sentence question, YOUR educated guess, EXPLANATION for your guess Chilean novelist and short-story writer María Luisa Bombal wrote innovative and influential stories featuring heroines which create fantasy worlds in order to escape from unfulfilling love relationships and restricted social roles. (A) heroines which create (B) heroines, they create (C) heroines, they created (D) heroines who create (E) heroines that were creating

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess The North American continent, first colonized by people from Siberia, crossing the now sunken land bridge between Siberia and Alaska about 15, 000 years ago. (A) The North American continent, first colonized by people from Siberia, crossing (B) People from Siberia first colonized the North American continent, who crossed (C) First colonized by people from Siberia was the North American continent, they crossed (D) First colonized by people from Siberia, who crossed the North American continent, HINT: What part of the sentence is missing?

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess Because he was ------- in the face of danger, the explorer won the government’s highest award for conspicuous bravery. (A) virile (B) heedless (C) dauntless (D) callow (E) timorous HINT: The missing word is a synonym for “brave. ”

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess Although the number of books (A)written in African languages (B)are growing, many African writers (C)find a larger audience (D)for works written in Portuguese or English. (E)No error (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) HINT: Make sure that you recognize the subject of the sentence.

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Ms. Fergusson’s main criticism of the artist’s rendering of the ancient mammal’s physical appearance is that, unsupported by even a ------- of fossil evidence, the image is bound to be -------. (A) modicum. . speculative (B) particle. . supplemented (C) perusal. . substantiated HINT: The words “unsupported by even” signal that there is very little evidence.

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess Choose the error in the sentence. (A)Aside from Shakespeare, (B)perhaps no writer in English (C)have engaged the public’s imagination (D)more thoroughly than Charles Dickens. (E)No error (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess (A)An abundant supply of milk (B)from dairy farms nearby (C)make the Bern region of Switzerland, (D)a leading producer of condensed milk and milk chocolate. (E)No error (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) HINT: Make sure that you recognize the subject of the sentence.

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess For both his shorter and longer works of fiction, Gabriel García Márquez achieves the rare feat of being accessible to the common reader while satisfying the most demanding of sophisticated critics. (A) For both his shorter and longer (B) For both his shorter, and in his longer, (C) In both his shorter and his longer (D) Both in his shorter and. HINT: his. Make longer sure that you recognize the (E) Both his shorter and longer subject of the sentence.

TEXTBOOK* Things to write: 1. DATE 2. copy the sentence question 3. YOUR educated guess 4. EXPLANATION for your guess About 35 percent of the world’s orange juice is produced by Florida, comparing it with nearly 50 percent produced by Brazil, the world’s largest orange producer. (A) comparing it with (B) but (C) whereas (D) although (E) compared with HINT: Vague pronouns