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Writing Test
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ARCO
■ SAT II Subject Tests
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43. Is the inclusion of the quotation from D.H.
Lawrence in sentence (10) appropriate?
(A) Yes, because the language of the quota-
tion helps the author of the essay describe
the Southwest.
(B) Yes, because an essay should always
include at least one quotation from a
prominent authority.
(C) Yes, provided that D.H. Lawrence was a
personal acquaintance of Georgia
O’Keeffe.
(D) No, because D.H. Lawrence was a writer
and Georgia O’Keeffe was a painter.
(E) No, because some readers may not be
familiar with the works of D.H.
Lawrence.
44. Which of the following sentences should
begin a new paragraph?
(A) (2)
(B) (5)
(C) (6)
(D) (7)
(E) (13)
45. Which of the following changes would most
improve the passage?
(A) Deleting teaching in sentence (5)
(B) Deleting the region that is now called in
sentence (7)
(C) Substituting felt for touched in sentence (10)
(D) Substituting tourists for visiting artists
in sentence (10)
(E) Substituting eyes for eyeballs in sentence (13)
Questions 46–50 are based on the following
passage:
(1) Today, planners are looking for renew-
able energy sources to satisfy the growing demand
for energy. (2) One idea that gets much attention
in the press is generating electricity from wind
power. (3) Articles in newspapers and magazines
are often written as though wind power is a new
idea, but it is really one of the oldest energy sources
used by human beings.
(4) No records of the earliest wind machines
survive, but they may have been built in China
more than three thousand years ago or perhaps on
the windy plains of Afghanistan. (5) Some sources
hint that Egyptians during the time of the Pharaohs
used wind power for drawing water for agricul-
tural purposes. (6) Around 2,000 
B
.
C
., Hammurabi
may have taken time out from developing his
legal code to sponsor development of some sort
of wind machine.
(7) The earliest confirmed wind machines
were located in Persia. (8) Persian writers
described gardens irrigated by wind-driven water
lifts. (9) The Persian machines were horizontal
devices, carousel-like contraptions that revolved
around a center pole and that caught the wind with
bundles of reeds. (10) Indeed, there is a certain
engineering advantage to the carousel: it doesn’t
matter from which direction the wind is blowing.
(11) From the Middle East, wind-machine
technology may have been carried to Europe by
returning Crusaders, for soon after the Crusades
windmills appeared in Northern Europe and on the
British Isles. (12) Windmills flourished for a while
in Europe but gave way to steam power.
(13) Those engaged in research and devel-
opment on wind power now face the same prob-
lem that caused the shift from wind to steam power:
how to handle to extremes of wind velocity. (14)
Wind, after all, is real iffy. (15) It can fail to blow
just when it is needed, or it can blow a gale right
when it isn’t needed.
46. Which of the following is the best revision of
the underlined portion of sentence (3)?
(3) Articles in newspapers and magazines are
often written as though wind power is a new
idea, but it is really one of the oldest energy
sources used by human beings.