1、 2016 The College Board.College Board,SAT,and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board.Practice Test#5Make 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-5MSA04Test 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 adapted from William Maxwell,The FoldedLeaf.1959 by William Maxwell.Originally publishedin 1945.The Alcazar Restaurant was on Sherid
4、an Roadnear Devon Avenue.It was long and narrow,withtables for two along the walls and tables for fourdown the middle.The decoration was art moderne,except for the series of murals depicting the fourseasons,and the sick ferns in the front window.Lymie sat down at the second table from the cashregist
5、er,and ordered his dinner.The history book,which he propped against the catsup and the glasssugar 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 thebody;also with names and messages no longer clearand never abso
6、lutely legible.On nearly every otherpage there was some marginal notation,either in inkor in very hard pencil.And unless someone hadupset a glass of water,the marks on page 177 werefrom tears.While Lymie read about the Peace of Paris,signedon the thirtieth of May,1814,between France andthe Allied po
7、wers,his right hand managed again andagain to bring food up to his mouth.Sometimes hechewed,sometimes he swallowed whole the food thathe had no idea he was eating.The Congress ofVienna met,with some allowance for delays,early inNovember of the same year,and all the powersengaged in the war on either
8、 side sentplenipotentiaries.It was by far the most splendid andimportant assembly ever convoked to discuss anddetermine the affairs of Europe.The Emperor ofRussia,the King of Prussia,the Kings of Bavaria,Denmark,and Wurttemberg,all were present inperson at the court of the Emperor Francis I in theAu
9、strian capital.When Lymie put down his fork andbegan to count them off,one by one,on the fingersof his left hand,the waitress,whose name was Irma,thought he was through eating and tried to take hisplate away.He stopped her.Prince Metternich(hisright thumb)presided over the Congress,andPrince Talleyr
10、and(the index finger)representedFrance.A party of four,two men and two women,cameinto the restaurant,all talking at once,and tookpossession of the center table nearest Lymie.The women had shingled hair and short tight skirtswhich exposed the underside of their knees whenthey sat down.One of the wome
11、n had the face of ayoung boy but disguised by one trick or another(rouge,lipstick,powder,wet bangs plastered againstthe high forehead,and a pair of long pendentearrings)to look like a woman of thirty-five,whichas a matter of fact she was.The men were older.Theylaughed more than there seemed any occa
12、sion for,while they were deciding between soup and shrimpcocktail,and their laughter was too loud.But it wasthe women s voices,the terrible not quite sober pitchof the women s voices which caused Lymie to skimover two whole pages without knowing what was onthem.Fortunately he realized this and went
13、back.Otherwise he might never have known about the11.Line51015202530354045505560Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUEsecret treaty concluded between England,France,and Austria,when the pretensions of Prussia andRussia,acting in concert,seemed to threaten arenewal
14、 of the attack.The results of the Congresswere stated clearly at the bottom of page 67 and atthe top of page 68,but before Lymie got halfwaythrough them,a coat that he recognized as hisfather s was hung on the hook next to his chair.Lymie closed the book and said,“I didn t think youwere coming.”Time
15、 is probably no more unkind to sportingcharacters than it is to other people,but physicaldecay unsustained by respectability is somehow morenoticeable.Mr.Petershair was turning gray and hisscalp showed through on top.He had lost weightalso;he no longer filled out his clothes the way heused to.His co
16、lor was poor,and the flower haddisappeared from his buttonhole.In its place was anAmerican Legion button.Apparently he himself was not aware that therehad been any change.He straightened his tieself-consciously and when Irma handed him a menu,he gestured with it so that the two women at the nexttable would notice the diamond ring on the fourthfinger of his right hand.Both of these things,andalso the fact that his hands showed signs of themanicurist,one can blame on the young man whohad his pictu
