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CRITICAL READING

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Sharon Weiner Gr een

Your Blueprint for T est Success

An over view of the SA T Critical

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HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE

GRADUATE MANAGEMENT

ADMISSION TEST

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Mitchel W einer

Former Member , Depar tment of English

James Madison High School, Br ooklyn, New Y ork

Sharon Weiner Green

Former Instr uctor in English

Mer ritt College, Oakland, Califor

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors gratefully acknowledge the following copyright holders for

permission to reprint material used in reading passages:

Pages 113¨C114: From Picasso: The Early Y ears by Jiri Padrta. Undated.

Tudor Publishing Co., New York.

Page 4: From A Handbook to Literatur e, 6/E by Holman. ? 1992.

Reprinted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Page 117: From ¡°The Dynamic Abyss¡± by Charles D. Hollister, Arthur R.

M. Nowell, and Peter A. Jumars. Copyright ? 1984 by Scientific American,

Inc. All rights reserved.

Pages 20¨C21: From ¡°Symbolic Language of Dreams¡± by Erich Fromm in

Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function by Ruth Nanda

Anshen, ed. Copyright 1957. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Pages 118¨C120: From Organizing the W orld¡¯s Money by Benjamin J.

Cohen. Copyright 1977. Basic Books, a div. of HarperCollins Publishers,

Inc.

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Copyright ? 1952 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.

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1963. Twayne Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

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1980 with permission of Putnam Publishing Group.

Page 31: From A Pocket History of the United States by Alan Nevins and

Henry Steele Commager. Copyright 1991. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

Pages 93¨C94: From The Most Beautiful House in the W orld by Witold

Rybczynski. Copyright 1989. With permission of Viking Penguin.

Page 96: From La Vida by Oscar Lewis. Copyright 1965. Random House,

New York.

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published in America¡¯s Other Childr en: Public Schools Outside Suburbia

by George Henderson, ed. Copyright 1971. University of Oklahoma Press.

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Outlooks and Insights. Copyright 1983. St. Martin¡¯s Press.

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Castro Leal to Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. ? 1940 The Museum of

Modern Art, New York.

Pages 102¨C103: From The Press and the Pr esidency by John Tebbel and

Sarah Miles Watts. Copyright 1985. Oxford University Press, New York.

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Light. ? 1985 with permission from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Page 201: Reprinted by permission from Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art by

Alfred H. Barr. ? 1946 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Page 207: From The Magic Years by Selma H. Fraiberg. Copyright 1959.

By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Pages 207¨C208: From Essentials of Psychology and Life by Philip G.

Zimbardo. Reprinted with permission of Addison-Wesley Educational

Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1980. Scott, Foresman and Co., Glenview,

Illinois.

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Perry. Copyright ? 1984 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Weiner, Mitchel, 1907Barron¡¯s critical reading workbook for the SAT / Mitchel Weiner,

Sharon Weiner Green.¡ª12th ed.

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Rev. ed. of: Barron¡¯s verbal workbook for the new SAT. 11th ed.

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1. English language¡ªExaminations¡ªStudy guides.

2. Universities and colleges¡ªUnited States¡ªEntrance examinations¡ªStudy guides. 3. SAT (Educational test)¡ªStudy guides.

I. Title: Critical reading workbook for the SAT. II. Green, Sharon,

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

v

PART I

INTRODUCING THE SAT:

CRITICAL READING SKILLS

Nature of the Test 3

Overview and Content 3

The Critical Reading Sections 4

Sentence Completion Questions 4

Reading Comprehension Questions 4

Before the Test 5

Six Months Before 5

Two Months Before 5

The Night Before 7

During the Test 8

Use Time Wisely 8

Center on the Test 9

PART II

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Introduction 13

Self-Assessment Test 17

Answer Key 34

Analysis of Test Results 35

Answer Explanations 37

PART III

SENTENCE COMPLETION QUESTIONS

Overview 43

Tips on Handling Sentence Completion Questions

Before You Look at the Answer Choices, Think of a

Word That Makes Sense 43

Spot Clues in the Sentence: Signal Words 44

Notice Negatives 45

Words Have Many Meanings: Stay Alert 45

Break Down Unfamiliar Words, Looking for

Familiar Word Parts 46

Take One Blank at a Time 46

Sentence Completion Exercises 47

Level A 47

Level B 56

Level C 64

Answers to Sentence Completion Exercises 73

Answer Explanations 75

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CRITICAL READING WORKBOOK FOR THE SAT

PART IV

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

Overview 87

Tips on Handling Reading Comprehension Questions

Try to Anticipate What the Passage Is About 88

Pick Your Questions to Answer 88

Read Purposefully: Passage, Questions, and

Answer Choices 88

Go Back to the Passage to Double-Check Your

Answer Choices 89

Tackle Paired Passages One Passage at a Time 89

Reading Comprehension Exercises 90

Level A 90

Level B 107

Level C 115

Answers to Reading Comprehension Exercises 124

Answer Explanations 125

PART V

BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY

Overview 137

Tips on Building Your Vocabulary 137

Read Widely to Develop Your Feeling for Words 137

Use Memory Tricks to Keep New Words in Your

Active Vocabulary 138

Acquaint Yourself with Word Parts¡ªPrefixes, Suffixes,

Roots¡ªto Expand Your Vocabulary 138

Work Through the SAT High-Frequency Word List

to Expand Your College-Level Vocabulary 138

SAT High-Frequency Word List 139

Basic Word Parts 171

PART VI

TESTS FOR PRACTICE

Critical Reading Test 1 193

Answer Key 211

Analysis of Test Results 212

Answer Explanations 213

Critical Reading Test 2 219

Answer Key 235

Analysis of Test Results 236

Answer Explanations 237

Critical Reading Test 3 243

Answer Key 260

Analysis of Test Results 261

Answer Explanations 262

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