Free printable SAT practice test for Grade 11

Reading and Writing

Circle the letter of the best answer. About 12 minutes.

1. Edo woodblock prints

   Woodblock prints were ______ in Edo-period Japan: because a single carved block could produce hundreds of copies, prints sold for about the price of a bowl of noodles, and ordinary city dwellers could decorate their homes with them.

   1.

   Which choice gives the most logical and precise word or phrase for the blank?

   1. Aforbidden
   2. Baffordable
   3. Cornamental
   4. Drare

2. Lichens

   A lichen is not a single organism but a partnership between a fungus and an alga. The relationship is ______: the alga supplies sugars through photosynthesis, while the fungus provides shelter and absorbs water and minerals.

   2.

   Which choice gives the most logical and precise word or phrase for the blank?

   1. Asuperficial
   2. Baccidental
   3. Cparasitic
   4. Dreciprocal

3. The plum cake

   The recipe card was stained and soft at the corners, and half the measurements had faded away. Still, every autumn Hana spread it on the counter and baked her grandmother's plum cake from memory, adding cinnamon where the card was blank. The cake never tasted quite the same, and she had stopped expecting it to.

   3.

   Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

   1. ATo show how a character first learned to bake from her grandmother
   2. BTo explain the steps involved in baking a traditional plum cake
   3. CTo portray a character's quiet effort to keep a family tradition alive
   4. DTo describe a character's frustration with a damaged recipe card

4. Jazz improvisation

   Listeners sometimes assume that jazz musicians who improvise are simply making things up on the spot. In practice, improvisers spend years learning scales, chord progressions, and short melodic phrases, often by copying recorded solos note for note. During a performance, they draw on this stored vocabulary, recombining and varying familiar ideas in response to the other players. The music is new each night, but it rests on deep preparation.

   4.

   What is the main idea of the text?

   1. AListeners enjoy improvised music more than written compositions.
   2. BCopying recorded solos note for note is discouraged among skilled jazz players.
   3. CJazz improvisation draws on extensive practice rather than pure invention.
   4. DJazz musicians usually perform the same solo each night.

5. Garden pollinators

   Students at one middle school planted purple and white flowers side by side in their garden. For one week, they recorded every time a bee, butterfly, or fly landed on a flower of each color. The students concluded that the bees in their garden favored purple flowers. The graph supports this conclusion, since it shows that ______

   5.

   Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the statement?

   1. Abutterflies visited purple and white flowers almost equally often.
   2. Bbees made 24 visits to purple flowers and only 9 to white ones.
   3. Cflies made more visits to white flowers than to purple flowers.
   4. Dbees made fewer visits to purple flowers than flies made to white ones.

6. Labels and taste

   In a taste study, a team of consumer researchers served participants two cups of the same orange juice but told them that one cup was organic. Most participants rated the supposedly organic juice as fresher and sweeter. The researchers concluded that expectations created by labels can shape how food tastes. A juice company hoping to learn which of two new recipes customers genuinely prefer should therefore ______

   6.

   Which choice most logically completes the text?

   1. Alabel both recipes as organic before the tasting begins.
   2. Bserve each recipe only to people who already buy organic juice.
   3. Ckeep tasters unaware of which recipe they are sampling.
   4. Dask tasters to read about each recipe before tasting it.

7. A desert meteor shower

   The students who traveled to the desert observatory last ______ more than forty meteors in a single night. Far from the glow of city lights, even the faintest streaks were easy to spot against the dark sky.

   7.

   Which choice completes the text so that it follows the conventions of Standard English?

   1. AAugust counted
   2. BAugust, counted
   3. CAugust; counted
   4. DAugust: counted

8. Garden ladybugs

   A single ladybug can eat dozens of aphids in a day. For this reason, many gardeners welcome the beetles, and a small colony of ladybugs ______ a vegetable garden nearly free of aphids for weeks at a time.

   8.

   Which choice completes the text so that it follows the conventions of Standard English?

   1. Ahave kept
   2. Bkeep
   3. Ckeeps
   4. Dare keeping

9. Ice core bubbles

   Air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice hold small samples of the atmosphere from the time the ice formed. By analyzing bubbles from ice drilled deep below the surface, scientists have measured carbon dioxide levels going back about 800,000 years. ______, ice cores offer a direct record of the ancient atmosphere over a span that no other source can match.

   9.

   Which choice gives the most logical transition for the blank?

   1. AThus
   2. BBy contrast
   3. CFor example
   4. DNevertheless

10. Library of Alexandria

    While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
    • The Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt in the third century BCE.
    • It stood in the city of Alexandria, near the Mediterranean coast.
    • Scholars there worked to collect texts from across the known world.
    • They copied and studied these texts.
    • Historians still debate how and when the library was destroyed.

    10.

    The student wants to explain what the library's scholars did. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

    1. AScholars at the Library of Alexandria collected, copied, and studied texts from across the known world.
    2. BThe Library of Alexandria stood in the city of Alexandria, near the Mediterranean coast.
    3. CHistorians still debate exactly how and when the Library of Alexandria, founded in the third century BCE, was destroyed.
    4. DThe Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt in the third century BCE.