SAT Reading • Inference

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Mongolia, which, according to international indices, has relatively strong democratic institutions and low intranational income inequality, experienced an inflation rate of 4.30% in 2017, whereas Cameroon, which shows the opposite pattern on such indices, had an inflation rate of only 0.64% that year.

Such comparisons have engendered speculation that by diluting control over the economy, democratic institutions inhibit states’ ability to counteract inflationary pressures.

To test this possibility systematically, Raj Desai et al. examined democratic strength, intranational inequality, and inflation in more than 100 countries, finding that democratic strength, if associated with low inequality, restrains inflationary pressures, suggesting that _____

 

Which choice most logically completes the text?

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많은 학생들이 이 지문을 굉장히 어렵게 느끼는데,
사실 논리 구조 자체만 보면 그렇게 어려운 문제는 아닙니다.

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SAT Writing • Standard English Conventions

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Roger Angell’s reputation as one of the greatest baseball writers of all ______ bolstered by dozens of New Yorker essays in which he demonstrated a deep affection for and knowledge of the game, has perhaps overshadowed his remarkable career as a fiction editor: during his decades-long tenure at the New Yorker, Angell helped shape the work of John Updike, Ann Beattie, and other contributors of note.

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

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많은 학생들이 이 문제를 틀리는 이유는
문장 앞부분만 보고 “동사가 필요하겠네”라고 성급하게 판단하기 때문입니다.

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SAT Reading • Textual Evidence

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Scholars cite Mr. President, the 1946 novel by Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias, as a foundational text of magical realism, the Latin American style of fiction in which antirealistic plot devices—often borrowed from the spiritual and narrative traditions of Indigenous and colonial societies in the Americas—are deployed in an otherwise realistic mode of representation typical of the modern novel.

This style has exerted a decisive influence on authors around the world, including Olga Tokarczuk, whose 1996 novel Primeval and Other Times resembles classic magical realist novels in its juxtaposition of literary realism with folklore—namely, that of Poland.

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Which quotation from a literary scholar would most directly support the claim in the underlined portion of the text?

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어떤 때는 쉽게 느껴지고 어떤 때는 어렵게 느껴지는 것이 바로 Evidence 문제입니다.

이 문제에서 가장 중요한 것은 단순한 키워드 매칭이 아니라
“무엇을 support해야 하는가”를 정확히 잡는 것입니다.

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SAT Writing • Standard English Conventions

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Bertie Marshall, a key figure in the history of steel band music in Trinidad and Tobago, made several innovations to the steel ____ wheels so the instrument could be easily transported during Carnival, a cover to protect the pans from the sun, and amplification so the sound of the pans could be better heard over large crowds and other instrumentation.

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

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이 문제는 punctuation, 특히 colon의 역할을 정확히 이해하고 있는지를 확인하는 문제입니다.

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