1、Practice Test#8 2016 The College Board.College Board,SAT,and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board.Make time to take the practice test.Its one of the best ways to get ready for the SAT.After youve taken the practice test,score it right away at sat.org/scoring.K-5MSA15Test beg
2、ins on the next page.ReadingTest65 MINUTES,52 QUESTIONSTurn 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 readingeach passage or pair,choose the best answer to each question based on what is
3、 stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is from Carlos Ruiz Zafn,The Angel s Game.2008 by Dragonworks,S.L.Translation 2009 byLucia Graves.The narrator,a writer,recalls his chi
4、ldhood inearly twentieth-century Barcelona.Even then my only friends were made of paperand ink.At school I had learned to read and writelong before the other children.Where my schoolfriends saw notches of ink on incomprehensiblepages,I saw light,streets,and people.Words and themystery of their hidde
5、n science fascinated me,and Isaw in them a key with which I could unlock aboundless world,a safe haven from that home,thosestreets,and those troubled days in which even Icould sense that only a limited fortune awaited me.My father didn t like to see books in the house.There was something about thema
6、part from theletters he could not decipherthat offended him.He used to tell me that as soon as I was ten he wouldsend me off to work and that I d better get rid of allmy scatterbrained ideas if I didn t want to end up aloser,a nobody.I used to hide my books under themattress and wait for him to go o
7、ut or fall asleep sothat I could read.Once he caught me reading at nightand flew into a rage.He tore the book from myhands and flung it out of the window.“If I catch you wasting electricity again,readingall this nonsense,you ll be sorry.”My father was not a miser and,despite thehardships we suffered
8、,whenever he could he gave mea few coins so that I could buy myself some treats likethe other children.He was convinced that I spentthem on licorice sticks,sunflower seeds,or sweets,but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed,and when I d collected four or five reales I d secretlyrush out to
9、 buy myself a book.My favorite place in the whole city was theSempere&Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Ana.Itsmelled of old paper and dust and it was mysanctuary,my refuge.The bookseller would let me siton a chair in a corner and read any book I liked tomy heart s content.He hardly ever allowed me to pa
10、yfor the books he placed in my hands,but when hewasn t looking I d leave the coins I d managed tocollect on the counter before I left.It was only smallchangeif I d had to buy a book with that pittance,Iwould probably have been able to afford only abooklet of cigarette papers.When it was time for met
11、o leave,I would do so dragging my feet,a weight onmy soul.If it had been up to me,I would have stayedthere forever.One Christmas Sempere gave me the best gift Ihave ever received.It was an old volume,read andexperienced to the full.“Great Expectations,by Charles Dickens,”I readon the cover.I was awa
12、re that Sempere knew a few authors whofrequented his establishment and,judging by the carewith which he handled the volume,I thoughtperhaps this Mr.Dickens was one of them.“A friend of yours?”“A lifelong friend.And from now on,he s yourfriend too.”11.Line510152025303540455055Unauthorized copying or
13、reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUEThat afternoon I took my new friend home,hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldn tsee it.It was a rainy winter,with days as gray as lead,and I read Great Expectations about nine times,partly because I had no other book at hand,partlybecause
14、I did not think there could be a better one inthe whole world and I was beginning to suspect thatMr.Dickens had written it just for me.Soon I wasconvinced that I didn t want to do anything else inlife but learn to do what Mr.Dickens had done.1Over the course of the passage,the main focus shiftsfrom
15、aA)general discussion of the narrator s love ofreading to a portrayal of an influential incident.B)depiction of the narrator s father to anexamination of an author with whom thenarrator becomes enchanted.C)symbolic representation of a skill the narratorpossesses to an example of its application.D)ta
16、le about the hardships of the narrator schildhood to an analysis of the effects of thosehardships.2The main purpose of lines 1-10(“Even.awaitedme”)is toA)introduce the characters who play a part in thenarrator s story.B)list the difficult conditions the narrator enduredin childhood.C)describe the passion that drives the actions thenarrator recounts.D)depict the narrator s aspirations before he metSempere.3With which of the following statements about hisfather would the narrator most likely agree
