SAT ? and Word of the Day –

April 21st

"If the Creator had separated Texas from the

Union by mountain barriers, the Alps or the

Andes, there might be plausible objections;

but He has planed down the whole

[Mississippi] Valley including Texas, and

united every atom of the soil and every drop

of the water of the mighty whole. He has

linked their rivers with the great Mississippi,

and marked and united the whole for the

dominion of one government, the residence

of one people." This quotation from the 1840's

can be viewed as an expression of

(A) The New Nationalism

(B) popular sovereignty

(C) Manifest Destiny

(D) the Good Neighbor policy

(E) the frontier thesis

SAT ? and Word of the Day –

April 22nd

Part or all of the following sentence is

underlined; beneath the sentence are five

ways of phrasing the underlined material.

Select the option that produces the best

sentence. If you think the original phrasing

produces a better sentence than any of the

alternatives, select choice A.

The reason the film’s stream-of-consciousness

imagery is so successful is because of its

capture of the sensorial experience of

childhood.

(A) because of its capture of

(B) capturing of

(C) because of capturing

(D) that it captures

(E) for its capturing

SAT ? and Word of the Day –

April 23rd

Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

Although biologists have made tremendous progress in mapping the human genome, the genetic roots of most common diseases remained largely elusive.

(A) remained(B) had remained(C) remain(D) are remaining(E) remains

SAT ? and Word of the Day –

April 24th

Choose the word or set of words that,

when inserted in the sentence, best fits

the meaning of the sentence as a

whole.

Tantra paintings from India are not only

beautiful but also -------: in addition to

their aesthetic value, they are used to

facilitate meditation.

(A) Garish

(B) Valuable

(C) Numerous

(D) Ornate

(E) Functional

SAT ? and Word of the Day –

April 25th