Digital SAT Transition Practice Questions

1. In the 19th century, many readers admired Emily Dickinson’s poems for their compressed language and startling imagery. During her lifetime, however, only a small number of her poems were published, and editors often changed her punctuation and wording to fit conventional tastes. ______, modern scholars often stress that Dickinson’s unusual style was central to her artistic achievement.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

2. Some comets take only a few years to orbit the Sun, returning frequently enough to be observed many times within a single lifetime. Halley’s Comet, by contrast, appears roughly once every seventy-five to seventy-six years. ______, a person who saw Halley’s Comet as a child might have only one more chance to see it as an older adult.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

3. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is now famous for woodblock prints such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa. He also produced illustrated books, paintings, and sketches over a long career. ______, reducing Hokusai’s achievement to a single image oversimplifies the range of his work.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

4. At the ancient site of Çatalhöyük, located in present-day Turkey, archaeologists found that many houses shared walls with one another and were entered through openings in the roof. Streets, in the modern sense, were largely absent. ______, researchers think residents probably moved across the settlement by walking over rooftops and climbing down ladders.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

5. The axolotl, a salamander native to Mexico, is well known for its ability to regenerate lost limbs. Researchers also study the animal because it can repair parts of its spinal cord and other tissues. ______, the axolotl has become an important organism in regenerative-medicine research.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?