CRITICAL READING
WORKBOOK
FOR THE
SAT
®
Sharon Weiner Gr een
Your Blueprint for T est Success Personal Instr uction for
An over view of the SA T Critical a Better T est Scor e
Reading Sections • Tips, questions, answers, and answer
Study advice and test-taking tips explanations cover all aspects of the
Critical Reading Sections
• An extensive vocabular y review to
Your Private T utor maximize your r eading compr ehension
I Practice questions with explained answers ability
to pr epare you for the sentence-completion
and reading compr ehension questions
I Practice exer cises or ganized accor ding to
level of dif ficulty
® SAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination
Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not
Visit www .barronstestpr ep.com endorse, this book.
, SAT
CRITICAL READING WORKBOOK
FOR THE
®
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
GRADUATE MANAGEMENT
ADMISSION TEST
12TH EDITION
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 nia
® SAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this book.
, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the following copyright holders for Pages 113–114: From Picasso: The Early Y ears by Jiri Padrta. Undated.
permission to reprint material used in reading passages: Tudor Publishing Co., New York.
Page 117: From “The Dynamic Abyss” by Charles D. Hollister, Arthur R.
Page 4: From A Handbook to Literatur e, 6/E by Holman. © 1992. M. Nowell, and Peter A. Jumars. Copyright © 1984 by Scientific American,
Reprinted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc. Inc. All rights reserved.
Pages 20–21: From “Symbolic Language of Dreams” by Erich Fromm in Pages 118–120: From Organizing the W orld’s Money by Benjamin J.
Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function by Ruth Nanda Cohen. Copyright 1977. Basic Books, a div. of HarperCollins Publishers,
Anshen, ed. Copyright 1957. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Inc.
Pages 26–27: From “The Spider and the Wasp” by Alexander Petrunkevitch. Pages 121–122: From F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kenneth Eble. Copyright
Copyright © 1952 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved. 1963. Twayne Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.
Page 30: From Small Town America by Richard Lingerman. Copyright © Page 122: From “F. Scott Fitzgerald” by Edmund Wilson in Shores of
1980 with permission of Putnam Publishing Group. Light. © 1985 with permission from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
Page 31: From A Pocket History of the United States by Alan Nevins and
Page 201: Reprinted by permission from Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art by
Henry Steele Commager. Copyright 1991. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Alfred H. Barr. © 1946 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Pages 93–94: From The Most Beautiful House in the W orld by Witold
Page 207: From The Magic Years by Selma H. Fraiberg. Copyright 1959.
Rybczynski. Copyright 1989. With permission of Viking Penguin.
By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster.
Page 96: From La Vida by Oscar Lewis. Copyright 1965. Random House,
Pages 207–208: From Essentials of Psychology and Life by Philip G.
New York.
Zimbardo. Reprinted with permission of Addison-Wesley Educational
Pages 96–97: From “What is Poverty?” by Jo Goodwin Parker. Originally Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1980. Scott, Foresman and Co., Glenview,
published in America’s Other Childr en: Public Schools Outside Suburbia Illinois.
by George Henderson, ed. Copyright 1971. University of Oklahoma Press.
Pages 222–223: From The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein. Copyright
Page 99: From “Living in Two Cultures” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston in 1959. Used by permission of Doubleday, a div. of BDD Publishing Group.
Outlooks and Insights. Copyright 1983. St. Martin’s Press.
Page 227: From “The Canopy of the Tropical Rain Forest” by Donald R.
Pages 100–101: Reprinted by permission from “Introduction” by Antonio Perry. Copyright © 1984 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.
Castro Leal to Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. © 1940 The Museum of
Page 232: From The Politics of Pr ejudice by Roger Daniels. Copyright
Modern Art, New York.
1962. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Pages 102–103: From The Press and the Pr esidency by John Tebbel and
Pages 232–233: From “American Antisemitism Historically Reconsidered”
Sarah Miles Watts. Copyright 1985. Oxford University Press, New York.
by John Higham, in Jews in the Mind of America by Herbert Stember, et al,
Page 105: From “The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago eds. Copyright 1966. American Jewish Committee, Basic Books, New York.
Indian Country” by Gary Nabhan. With permission of North Point Press; Reprinted in Antisemitism in the United States by Leonard Dinnerstein, ed.
div. of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Copyright 1971. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., New York.
Pages 107–108: “Native Earth,” from Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen, Pages 246–247: From “The Man Who Hitched the Reindeer To Santa
copyright © 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984 by Peter Matthiessen. Used by per- Claus’s Sleigh” by X. J. Kennedy in The New Y ork Times Book Review ,
mission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. December 5, 1993. © 1993 The New York Times Co.
Pages 108–109: From “Social Characteristics and Socialization of Wild Page 251: From The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday.
Chimpanzees” by Yukimaru Sugiyama in Primate Socialization by Frank Copyright 1969. University of New Mexico Press.
E. Poirer, ed. Copyright 1972. Random House, New York.
Pages 252–253: From “Huge Conservation Effort Aims to Save Vanishing
Pages 110–111: From War, Peace and International Politics by David W. Architect of the Savanna” by William K. Stevens, © 1989 by The New
Zeigler, Copyright 1977. Reprinted by permission of Addison-Wesley York Times Co. Reprinted with permission.
Educational Publishers, Inc.
Page 256: From Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. Copyright © 1993 by
Page 113: From Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views by Dore Ashton. Larry Watson. (Milkweed Editions, 1993)
Copyright 1972. The Viking Press, New York.
© Copyright 2006, 2005, 2001, 1997, 1994, 1990, 1987, 1983, 1979, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
1975, 1974, 1965 by Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
Weiner, Mitchel, 1907-
Barron’s critical reading workbook for the SAT / Mitchel Weiner,
All rights reserved.
Sharon Weiner Green.—12th ed.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat,
p. cm.
microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any
Rev. ed. of: Barron’s verbal workbook for the new SAT. 11th ed.
information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the
c2005.
written permission of the copyright owner.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7641-3381-7
ISBN-10: 0-7641-3381-0
All inquiries should be addressed to:
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Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
2. Universities and colleges—United States—Entrance examina-
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Hauppauge, New York 11788
I. Title: Critical reading workbook for the SAT. II. Green, Sharon,
http//www.barronseduc.com
1939- III. Title.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 2006040766
LB1631.5.W45 2006
378.1'662—dc22 2006040766
ISBN-13: 978-0-7641-3381-7
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Printed in the United States of America
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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 43
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
WORKBOOK
FOR THE
SAT
®
Sharon Weiner Gr een
Your Blueprint for T est Success Personal Instr uction for
An over view of the SA T Critical a Better T est Scor e
Reading Sections • Tips, questions, answers, and answer
Study advice and test-taking tips explanations cover all aspects of the
Critical Reading Sections
• An extensive vocabular y review to
Your Private T utor maximize your r eading compr ehension
I Practice questions with explained answers ability
to pr epare you for the sentence-completion
and reading compr ehension questions
I Practice exer cises or ganized accor ding to
level of dif ficulty
® SAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination
Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not
Visit www .barronstestpr ep.com endorse, this book.
, SAT
CRITICAL READING WORKBOOK
FOR THE
®
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
GRADUATE MANAGEMENT
ADMISSION TEST
12TH EDITION
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 nia
® SAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this book.
, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the following copyright holders for Pages 113–114: From Picasso: The Early Y ears by Jiri Padrta. Undated.
permission to reprint material used in reading passages: Tudor Publishing Co., New York.
Page 117: From “The Dynamic Abyss” by Charles D. Hollister, Arthur R.
Page 4: From A Handbook to Literatur e, 6/E by Holman. © 1992. M. Nowell, and Peter A. Jumars. Copyright © 1984 by Scientific American,
Reprinted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc. Inc. All rights reserved.
Pages 20–21: From “Symbolic Language of Dreams” by Erich Fromm in Pages 118–120: From Organizing the W orld’s Money by Benjamin J.
Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function by Ruth Nanda Cohen. Copyright 1977. Basic Books, a div. of HarperCollins Publishers,
Anshen, ed. Copyright 1957. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Inc.
Pages 26–27: From “The Spider and the Wasp” by Alexander Petrunkevitch. Pages 121–122: From F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kenneth Eble. Copyright
Copyright © 1952 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved. 1963. Twayne Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.
Page 30: From Small Town America by Richard Lingerman. Copyright © Page 122: From “F. Scott Fitzgerald” by Edmund Wilson in Shores of
1980 with permission of Putnam Publishing Group. Light. © 1985 with permission from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
Page 31: From A Pocket History of the United States by Alan Nevins and
Page 201: Reprinted by permission from Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art by
Henry Steele Commager. Copyright 1991. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Alfred H. Barr. © 1946 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Pages 93–94: From The Most Beautiful House in the W orld by Witold
Page 207: From The Magic Years by Selma H. Fraiberg. Copyright 1959.
Rybczynski. Copyright 1989. With permission of Viking Penguin.
By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster.
Page 96: From La Vida by Oscar Lewis. Copyright 1965. Random House,
Pages 207–208: From Essentials of Psychology and Life by Philip G.
New York.
Zimbardo. Reprinted with permission of Addison-Wesley Educational
Pages 96–97: From “What is Poverty?” by Jo Goodwin Parker. Originally Publishers, Inc. Copyright 1980. Scott, Foresman and Co., Glenview,
published in America’s Other Childr en: Public Schools Outside Suburbia Illinois.
by George Henderson, ed. Copyright 1971. University of Oklahoma Press.
Pages 222–223: From The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein. Copyright
Page 99: From “Living in Two Cultures” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston in 1959. Used by permission of Doubleday, a div. of BDD Publishing Group.
Outlooks and Insights. Copyright 1983. St. Martin’s Press.
Page 227: From “The Canopy of the Tropical Rain Forest” by Donald R.
Pages 100–101: Reprinted by permission from “Introduction” by Antonio Perry. Copyright © 1984 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.
Castro Leal to Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. © 1940 The Museum of
Page 232: From The Politics of Pr ejudice by Roger Daniels. Copyright
Modern Art, New York.
1962. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Pages 102–103: From The Press and the Pr esidency by John Tebbel and
Pages 232–233: From “American Antisemitism Historically Reconsidered”
Sarah Miles Watts. Copyright 1985. Oxford University Press, New York.
by John Higham, in Jews in the Mind of America by Herbert Stember, et al,
Page 105: From “The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago eds. Copyright 1966. American Jewish Committee, Basic Books, New York.
Indian Country” by Gary Nabhan. With permission of North Point Press; Reprinted in Antisemitism in the United States by Leonard Dinnerstein, ed.
div. of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Copyright 1971. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., New York.
Pages 107–108: “Native Earth,” from Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen, Pages 246–247: From “The Man Who Hitched the Reindeer To Santa
copyright © 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984 by Peter Matthiessen. Used by per- Claus’s Sleigh” by X. J. Kennedy in The New Y ork Times Book Review ,
mission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. December 5, 1993. © 1993 The New York Times Co.
Pages 108–109: From “Social Characteristics and Socialization of Wild Page 251: From The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday.
Chimpanzees” by Yukimaru Sugiyama in Primate Socialization by Frank Copyright 1969. University of New Mexico Press.
E. Poirer, ed. Copyright 1972. Random House, New York.
Pages 252–253: From “Huge Conservation Effort Aims to Save Vanishing
Pages 110–111: From War, Peace and International Politics by David W. Architect of the Savanna” by William K. Stevens, © 1989 by The New
Zeigler, Copyright 1977. Reprinted by permission of Addison-Wesley York Times Co. Reprinted with permission.
Educational Publishers, Inc.
Page 256: From Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. Copyright © 1993 by
Page 113: From Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views by Dore Ashton. Larry Watson. (Milkweed Editions, 1993)
Copyright 1972. The Viking Press, New York.
© Copyright 2006, 2005, 2001, 1997, 1994, 1990, 1987, 1983, 1979, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
1975, 1974, 1965 by Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
Weiner, Mitchel, 1907-
Barron’s critical reading workbook for the SAT / Mitchel Weiner,
All rights reserved.
Sharon Weiner Green.—12th ed.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat,
p. cm.
microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any
Rev. ed. of: Barron’s verbal workbook for the new SAT. 11th ed.
information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the
c2005.
written permission of the copyright owner.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7641-3381-7
ISBN-10: 0-7641-3381-0
All inquiries should be addressed to:
1. English language—Examinations—Study guides.
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
2. Universities and colleges—United States—Entrance examina-
250 Wireless Boulevard
tions—Study guides. 3. SAT (Educational test)—Study guides.
Hauppauge, New York 11788
I. Title: Critical reading workbook for the SAT. II. Green, Sharon,
http//www.barronseduc.com
1939- III. Title.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 2006040766
LB1631.5.W45 2006
378.1'662—dc22 2006040766
ISBN-13: 978-0-7641-3381-7
ISBN-10: 0-7641-3381-0
Printed in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3
, 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 43
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
