Write Your Own SAT

1.It was Halloween night and Tabitha and her new friends stood in front of the last house on
the block. 2. This was a house
notoriously
known as the house where a woman killed her family and
then hung herself. 3. The house was located in a
remote
area, away from the neighborhood and
children stayed away from it, under the
pretense
that the house was haunted.
1.
The woman had
found out her husband had been cheating on her, so she drowned her children, and then when he
arrived home, she slit his throat, and then killed herself.
But this Halloween, on a full moon, Tabitha and her friends Danny, Elesia and Jackson decided
to check out the house. As they walked towards the front gate, they saw a girl, in a black dress with
straight black hair standing in front of the gate, as if debating wether or not to go into the house.
Hey! Tabitha called. Tabitha Danny hissed what are you doing? Im going to see if she wants to
join us. She replied, sauntering towards the girl in her angel costume. She may be the new girl, but
she should know not to mess with that house. Elesia spat.
The girl turned around, slowly. Hello. The girl said in a
muted
voice. Im Tabitha, Tabitha began
My friends and I are going into Widow Malices house. Would you like to come with us? she said in a
kind voice. Sure. The girl replied My name is Absinthe. Tabitha turned towards her friends. This is
Danny, she said, pointing to a boy in a Danny Darko outfit. He nodded at her This girl in the Elvira
costume is Elesia and the boy in the vampire outfit is Jackson.

1. Where should sentence

1.
Be placed?
A) No Change
B) Placed after sentence 1
C) Placed after sentence 2
D) Placed after sentence 3
2. The writer is considering deleting the sentence
2.
Should it be? Why or why not?
A)
B)
C)
D)
3. Where should sentence
3.
be placed?
A)
B)
C)
D)
4 Should tossed be replaced or left as is?

A)
B)
C)
D)

5 Where should sentence

4
be placed?
A)
B)
C)
D)

1. I have this special

capacity
to see peoples life spans. 2. I cant actually see how they die or
how many years they
exactly have left
, but I can see a certain color above their head. 3. There are
three colors that may appear, green, yellow and red. 4. Green means that they have a long life left,
and that they die of old age or some kind of
ailment
in their old age

. 5. Yellow means that they have a

realitively long life left, but they will die in a tragic accident, like a car crash or accidental drowning. 6.
Red, however, is more
malignant
. If I see someone with a red glow above their head, it means that
their death is very close, usually by a brutal way, such as murder or suicide.
7. I can see everyones colors, with the exception of my own.
1
I usually feel pity for those
who have a red glow above their heads, as their time is coming. 8. As I walk along the street, I can see
whose time is coming soon and usually, the
banal
green aura is all I see. 9. Ocasionally, I see yellow
glows radiating from them, but not that often. 10
. Often,
the color that mostly remains
dormant
is
red. 11. I usually only see red once or twice a year, maybe five times, if people are unlucky. 12. The
most red Ive ever seen in one year is six. Six people were murdered one year, and when they showed
a picture of the murderer, he had a green glow to him.
13. My
hypothesis
is that murders gain half of the life span left of someone that they kill, and
thats why they often have a green aura. 14. See, on the reports on the news, I can see the murderer
and they almost always have a green glow to them.
2.
Thats how I spent my summer. 15. This
summer, I learned how to control my gift and see more clearly, as well as figure out the trick about
murderers, and now that Im going back to school, I can see my classmates glows.

16. As I stroll through the halls at my new school, I watch for the colors that appear above my
classmates heads.
3.
They all have different colors.

17. I walk towards my class, and pass a girl about

a grade younger than me. 18. She has a red glow surrounding her. 19. I regard her with a fair amount
of
equanimity
and continue on to my class.
Such a pity
20. Coming closer to the room, I notice
something slightly odd. 21. More and more people have red glows around them. 22. I get into the
room and take my seat, noticing with concern that everyone in my class is radiating a red aura. 23. I
glance out the window, and notice my reflection. 24. To my surprise, I can see my aura, but I gasp in
shock as I notice the color. Bright red. 25. Bright red aura usually means that persons death is that
day. 26. As I stare at my reflection, dumbfounded, the teacher walks in. 27. Hello class, he says as I
pay him no attention Im Mr. Mortus.
28.
Mortus Doesnt that mean death?
I think, glancing up to look at him. He looks back at
me and gives me a
wry
smile as I gasp. He is the only one in the room who doesnt have a red glow.
His aura is bright green.

1. In sentence 2, should the underlined phrase be changed or left as is?

A) No change
B) Change to have left exactly
C) Change to have left
D) Change to will live for

2. What should the writer do to the underlined part of sentence 4?

A) No change because it makes sense
B) Take it out because it doesnt make sense
C) Take it out because it is repetitive
D) Leave it in because it helps the main idea

3. Where should sentence

1.
Be placed?
A) No change
B) Place after sentence 6
C) Place after sentence 5
D) Place after sentence 3

4.

Should the word often in sentence 10 be changed?

A)
B)
C)
D)

No Change
However
Sometimes
Mostly

5. What should be done to sentence

3
?
A) It should be deleted, as it doesnt make sense
B) It should be moved in front of sentence 16
C) It should be placed behind sentence 14
D) It should be left as is.