SAT READING : SECTION 1 Time – 65 minutes 52 Questions WITH ANSWER KEY AT THE END
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Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage.
The following is adapted from E.M. Forster’s A Room With a
View, originally published in 1908.
A few days after the engagement was announced Mrs.
Honeychurch made Lucy and her Fiasco come to a little
garden-party in the neighborhood, for nat...
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SECTION 1
Time – 65 minutes
52 Questions
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions: For these questions, determine the solution to each question presented and choose the best answer choice of those
provided. Be sure to fill in the respective circle on your answer sheet.
Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. “Not that, but the congratulations. It is so disgusting, the
way an engagement is regarded as public property—a kind of
The following is adapted from E.M. Forster’s A Room With a 35 waste place where every outsider may shoot his vulgar
View, originally published in 1908. sentiment. All those old women smirking!”
A few days after the engagement was announced Mrs. “One has to go through it, I suppose. They won’t notice
Honeychurch made Lucy and her Fiasco come to a little us so much next time.”
garden-party in the neighborhood, for naturally she wanted to “But my point is that their whole attitude is wrong. An
show people that her daughter was marrying a presentable 40 engagement—horrid word in the first place—is a private
5 man. matter, and should be treated as such.”
Cecil was more than presentable; he looked Yet the smirking old women, however wrong
distinguished, and it was very pleasant to see his slim figure individually, were racially correct. The spirit of the
keeping step with Lucy, and his long, fair face responding generations had smiled through them, rejoicing in the
when Lucy spoke to him. People congratulated Mrs. 45 engagement of Cecil and Lucy because it promised the
10 Honeychurch, which is, I believe, a social blunder, but it continuance of life on earth. To Cecil and Lucy it promised
pleased her, and she introduced Cecil rather indiscriminately something quite different—personal love. Hence Cecil’s
to some stuffy dowagers. irritation and Lucy’s belief that his irritation was just.
At tea a misfortune took place: a cup of coffee was upset “How tiresome!” she said. “Couldn’t you have escaped to
over Lucy’s figured silk, and though Lucy feigned 50 tennis?”
15 indifference, her mother feigned nothing of the sort but “I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The
dragged her indoors to have the frock treated by a neighborhood is deprived of the romance of me being
sympathetic maid. They were gone some time, and Cecil was athletic. Such romance as I have is that of the Inglese
left with the dowagers. When they returned he was not as Italianato.”
pleasant as he had been. 55 “Inglese Italianato?”
20 “Do you go to much of this sort of thing?” he asked when “E un diavolo incarnato! You know the proverb?”
they were driving home. She did not. Nor did it seem applicable to a young man
“Oh, now and then,” said Lucy, who had rather enjoyed who had spent a quiet winter in Rome with his mother. But
herself. Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a
“Is it typical of country society?” 60 cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing.
25 “I suppose so. Mother, would it be?” “Well,” said he, “I cannot help it if they do disapprove of
“Plenty of society,” said Mrs. Honeychurch, who was me. There are certain irremovable barriers between myself
trying to remember the hang of one of the dresses. and them, and I must accept them.”
Seeing that her thoughts were elsewhere, Cecil bent “We all have our limitations, I suppose,” said wise Lucy.
towards Lucy and said: 65 “Sometimes they are forced on us, though,” said Cecil,
30 “To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, who saw from her remark that she did not quite understand
portentous.” his position.
“I am so sorry that you were stranded.” “How?”
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“It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence 5. The passage most strongly suggests that Cecil found the
70 ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of engagement party “disastrous” (line 30) because
others?”
(A) he judged the other guests at the party to be
She thought a moment, and agreed that it did make a
uninteresting.
difference.
(B) he was angered by the intrusion into his relationship
“Difference?” cried Mrs. Honeychurch, suddenly alert. “I
with Lucy.
75 don’t see any difference. Fences are fences, especially when
(C) he prefers playing tennis to other forms of social
they are in the same place.”
interaction.
“We were speaking of motives,” said Cecil, on whom the
(D) he would rather communicate in Italian than in
interruption jarred.
English.
“My dear Cecil, look here.” She spread out her knees and
80 perched her card-case on her lap. “This is me. That’s Windy 6. As used in line 59, “affect” most nearly means
Corner. The rest of the pattern is the other people. Motives
are all very well, but the fence comes here.” (A) cause.
“We weren’t talking of real fences,” said Lucy, laughing. (B) feign.
“Oh, I see, dear—poetry.” (C) influence.
(D) impress.
1. It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that Mrs.
Honeychurch is 7. Lucy’s response to Cecil in line 64 primarily serves to
(A) particularly fond of Cecil. (A) show Lucy’s worldly sophistication.
(B) an expert seamstress with a knack for dress-making. (B) express Lucy’s resignation to the narrowness of
(C) concerned with presenting a respectable image to country society.
society. (C) demonstrate Lucy’s growing resentment of the
(D) disinterested in attending the engagement party. differences between Cecil’s outlook and hers.
(D) indicate Lucy’s assent to Cecil’s opinions.
2. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer
8. Cecil brings up fences (lines 69-70) in order to
to the previous question?
(A) highlight his feeling that he is different from others
(A) Lines 1-5 (“A few … man”)
in the community.
(B) Lines 9-12 (“People … dowagers”)
(B) express his frustration at being excluded from polite
(C) Lines 17-18 (“They were … dowagers”)
society.
(D) Lines 26-27 (“Plenty of … dresses”)
(C) demand greater respect for his desire for privacy and
3. As used in line 36, “sentiment” most nearly means seclusion.
(D) reveal an epiphany about the separations among
(A) nostalgia. human beings.
(B) emotion.
(C) opinion. 9. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer
(D) tenderness. to the previous question?
(A) Lines 39-41 (“An engagement … such”)
4. Which situation is most similar to the one described in
(B) Lines 51-53 (“The neighborhood … athletic”)
lines 6-12?
(C) Lines 62-63 (“There are … them”)
(A) A distinguished war hero returning to his hometown (D) Lines 81-82(“Motives are … here”)
(B) A leader making concessions to his subjects
(C) A prized show dog being paraded before judges
(D) A criminal facing judgment in a court of law
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