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SAT Practice Test #1| Verified Questions
and 100% Correct Answers Graded A+
READING - PASSAGE 1 - Correct Answer-READING -
PASSAGE 1 - READING SECTION
This passage is from Lydia Minatoya, The Strangeness
of Beauty. ©1999 by Lydia Minatoya. The setting is
Japan in 1920. Chie and her daughter Naomi are
members of the House of Fuji, a noble family.
Akira came directly, breaking all tradition. Was
that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his
mother to speak to his father to approach a
go-between—would Chie have been more receptive?
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LINE 5 — He came on a winter's eve. He pounded on
the
door while a cold rain beat on the shuttered veranda,
so at first Chie thought him only the wind. The maid
knew better. Chie heard her soft scuttling footsteps,
the creak of the door. Then the maid brought a
LINE 10 —calling card to the drawing room, for Chie.
Chie was reluctant to go to her guest; perhaps she
was feeling too cozy. She and Naomi were reading at
a low table set atop a charcoal brazier. A thick quilt
spread over the sides of the table so their legs were
LINE 15 - tucked inside with the heat.
"Who is it at this hour, in this weather?" Chie
questioned as she picked the name card off the
maid's lacquer tray.
"Shinoda, Akira. Kobe Dental College," she read.
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LINE 20 - Naomi recognized the name. Chie heard a
soft
intake of air.
"I think you should go," said Naomi.
Akira was waiting in the entry. He was in his early
twenties, slim and serious, wearing the black
LINE 25 - military-style uniform of a student. As he
bowed—his hands hanging straight down, a
black cap in one, a yellow oil-paper umbrella in the
other—Chie glanced beyond him. In the glistening
surface of the courtyard's rain-drenched paving
LINE 30- stones, she saw his reflection like a dark
double.
"Madame," said Akira, "forgive my disruption,
but I come with a matter of urgency."
His voice was soft, refined. He straightened
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SAT Practice Test #1| Verified Questions
and 100% Correct Answers Graded A+
READING - PASSAGE 1 - Correct Answer-READING -
PASSAGE 1 - READING SECTION
This passage is from Lydia Minatoya, The Strangeness
of Beauty. ©1999 by Lydia Minatoya. The setting is
Japan in 1920. Chie and her daughter Naomi are
members of the House of Fuji, a noble family.
Akira came directly, breaking all tradition. Was
that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his
mother to speak to his father to approach a
go-between—would Chie have been more receptive?
1
, 2
LINE 5 — He came on a winter's eve. He pounded on
the
door while a cold rain beat on the shuttered veranda,
so at first Chie thought him only the wind. The maid
knew better. Chie heard her soft scuttling footsteps,
the creak of the door. Then the maid brought a
LINE 10 —calling card to the drawing room, for Chie.
Chie was reluctant to go to her guest; perhaps she
was feeling too cozy. She and Naomi were reading at
a low table set atop a charcoal brazier. A thick quilt
spread over the sides of the table so their legs were
LINE 15 - tucked inside with the heat.
"Who is it at this hour, in this weather?" Chie
questioned as she picked the name card off the
maid's lacquer tray.
"Shinoda, Akira. Kobe Dental College," she read.
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LINE 20 - Naomi recognized the name. Chie heard a
soft
intake of air.
"I think you should go," said Naomi.
Akira was waiting in the entry. He was in his early
twenties, slim and serious, wearing the black
LINE 25 - military-style uniform of a student. As he
bowed—his hands hanging straight down, a
black cap in one, a yellow oil-paper umbrella in the
other—Chie glanced beyond him. In the glistening
surface of the courtyard's rain-drenched paving
LINE 30- stones, she saw his reflection like a dark
double.
"Madame," said Akira, "forgive my disruption,
but I come with a matter of urgency."
His voice was soft, refined. He straightened
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