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1、 2016 The College Board College Board SAT and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board Practice Test 5 Make time to take the practice test It s one of the best ways to get ready for the SAT After you ve taken the practice test score it right away at sat org scoring K 5MSA04 Test
2、 begins on the next page ReadingTest 65 MINUTES 52 QUESTIONS Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions After reading each passage or pair choose the best answer to each question based on
3、what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics such as a table or graph Questions 1 10 are based on the following passage This passage is adapted from William Maxwell The Folded Leaf 1959 by William Maxwell Originally published in 1945 The Alcazar Restaurant wa
4、s on Sheridan Road near Devon Avenue It was long and narrow with tables for two along the walls and tables for four down the middle The decoration was art moderne except for the series of murals depicting the four seasons and the sick ferns in the front window Lymie sat down at the second table from
5、 the cash register and ordered his dinner The history book which he propped against the catsup and the glass sugar bowl had been used by others before him Blank pages front and back were filled in with maps drawings dates comic cartoons and organs of the body also with names and messages no longer c
6、lear and never absolutely legible On nearly every other page there was some marginal notation either in ink or in very hard pencil And unless someone had upset a glass of water the marks on page 177 were from tears While Lymie read about the Peace of Paris signed on the thirtieth of May 1814 between
7、 France and the Allied powers his right hand managed again and again to bring food up to his mouth Sometimes he chewed sometimes he swallowed whole the food that he had no idea he was eating The Congress of Vienna met with some allowance for delays early in November of the same year and all the powe
8、rs engaged in the war on either side sent plenipotentiaries It was by far the most splendid and important assembly ever convoked to discuss and determine the affairs of Europe The Emperor of Russia the King of Prussia the Kings of Bavaria Denmark and Wurttemberg all were present in person at the cou
9、rt of the Emperor Francis I in the Austrian capital When Lymie put down his fork and began to count them off one by one on the fingers of his left hand the waitress whose name was Irma thought he was through eating and tried to take his plate away He stopped her Prince Metternich his right thumb pre
10、sided over the Congress and Prince Talleyrand the index finger represented France A party of four two men and two women came into the restaurant all talking at once and took possession of the center table nearest Lymie The women had shingled hair and short tight skirts which exposed the underside of
11、 their knees when they sat down One of the women had the face of a young boy but disguised by one trick or another rouge lipstick powder wet bangs plastered against the high forehead and a pair of long pendent earrings to look like a woman of thirty five which as a matter of fact she was The men wer
12、e older They laughed more than there seemed any occasion for while they were deciding between soup and shrimp cocktail and their laughter was too loud But it was the women s voices the terrible not quite sober pitch of the women s voices which caused Lymie to skim over two whole pages without knowin
13、g what was on them Fortunately he realized this and went back Otherwise he might never have known about the 11 Line 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal CONTINUE2 secret treaty concluded between England France and Austria when the prete
14、nsions of Prussia and Russia acting in concert seemed to threaten a renewal of the attack The results of the Congress were stated clearly at the bottom of page 67 and at the top of page 68 but before Lymie got halfway through them a coat that he recognized as his father s was hung on the hook next t
15、o his chair Lymie closed the book and said I didn t think you were coming Time is probably no more unkind to sporting characters than it is to other people but physical decay unsustained by respectability is somehow more noticeable Mr Peters hair was turning gray and his scalp showed through on top
16、He had lost weight also he no longer filled out his clothes the way he used to His color was poor and the flower had disappeared from his buttonhole In its place was an American Legion button Apparently he himself was not aware that there had been any change He straightened his tie self consciously and when Irma handed him a menu he gestured with it so that the two women at the next table would notice the diamond ring on the fourth finger of his right hand Both of these things and also the fact
