Eastchester High School Counseling Department

Read the following SAT test question, then click on a button to select your answer. 

A group of workers can harvest all the grapes from square meters of a vineyard in minute. At this rate, how many minutes will the group need to harvest all the grapes from square meters of this vineyard?

Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. 

Their part of the reconstruction process that followed the Second World War, the nations of Western Europe took steps toward achieving greater political and economic integration.

1.   Their
2.   The
3.   It was
4.   As
5.   On

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 

The “double feature,” which featured two films for the price of one, became popular in the 1930s as a scheme to ------- former moviegoers who had begun to stay home since the ------- of the Depression at the beginning of the decade.

1.   lure . . advent
2.   discourage . . end
3.   dissuade . . dawn
4.   perplex . . onset
5.   instigate . . devastation