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Lesson 2
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■ SAT II Subject Tests
54. The correct answer is (A). The use of the present tense here is incorrect. The use of the past tense
ended in the dependent clause establishes that the action of the game and the scoring belong to the
past. So has should be had.
(B) More is correctly used.
(C) Than is correctly used to introduce this elliptical clause: “than the visiting team had.”
(D) The infinitive to file is correctly used here to explain what the losing coach plans to do.
55. The correct answer is (E). The sentence as written is correct.
(A) Few is used here idiomatically.
(B) Survived is in the past tense and is consistent with the other verbs in the sentence.
(C) Those is a pronoun that refers to fittings.
(D) Especially is an adverb used to modify the adjective important.
56. The correct answer is (C). Than creates an unacceptable phrase: different than. The correct idiom
is different from.
(A) Because is an appropriate conjunction to explain why Calvin’s criticisms were different.
(B) In is the correct preposition to use in this context.
(D) Those is a pronoun that correctly substitutes for criticisms.
57. The correct answer is (D). Of is a preposition that has no place in the middle of a verb. This should
read should have realized.
(A) Who is a relative pronoun that refers to vandals and introduces the relative clause that modifies vandals.
(B) Since who refers to vandals, were apprehended is correct.
(C) Almost immediately is an adverbial phrase used to modify were apprehended.
58. The correct answer is (C). One is used here as a pronoun. But what does one refer to? It can’t refer
to vehicles, because that is a plural noun. One could be changed to vehicle or car.
(A) That correctly introduces a noun clause that here functions as the object of announced.
(B) Has developed is in the present perfect tense. It correctly conveys the idea that the development,
while begun some time in the past, culminated in the present.
(D) Both is used here idiomatically.