SAT 리딩 기출 유형 6 - Rhetorical Synthesis - SAT·SSAT 기출 문제 핵심 노트

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SAT 리딩 기출 유형 Rhetorical Synthesis 문제 세트입니다.
상위권 대비용 메모(Notes) 기반 선택 훈련 자료로, 주어진 노트와 목표(목적·독자·상황)에 맞춰 가장 효과적인 문장을 고르는 연습에 집중하세요.
노트 핵심 파악 → 목표/독자 확인 → 불필요한 정의·배경은 배제 → 가장 직접적으로 목표를 달성하는 선택지 고르기 순서로 접근하면 정답률을 높일 수 있습니다.

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SAT 리딩 기출 유형 — Rhetorical Synthesis (상위권)

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• The Million Song Dataset (MSD) includes audio features and descriptive tags for popular songs.
• Audio features include traits such as loudness and pitch intervals.
• Many algorithms use these audio features to predict a new song’s popularity.
• These algorithms may fail to accurately identify main audio features of a song with varying acoustic traits.
• Algorithms based on descriptive tags that describe fixed traits (e.g., genre) are more reliable predictors of popularity.

1) The student wants to explain a disadvantage of relying on audio features to predict a song’s popularity. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

A. Algorithms based on audio features may misidentify key traits in songs with varying acoustics, making them less reliable predictors than tag-based algorithms.
B. MSD’s descriptive tags are reliable predictors because they describe fixed traits.
C. Audio features can vary within a song, while descriptive tags describe fixed traits like genre.
D. Many algorithms predict popularity based on loudness and pitch intervals.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Stars form in a galaxy when gravity causes a massive cloud of dust and gas to collapse.
• A galaxy in a phase of rapid star formation is called a starburst galaxy.
• Quenching is a process in which a galaxy loses star-forming gas.
• A galaxy that no longer forms stars is called a quenched galaxy.
• A quenched galaxy has entered the poststarburst phase.

2) The student wants to explain what a quenched galaxy is. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

A. Before quenching, a starburst galaxy will form stars rapidly.
B. When it becomes quenched, a starburst galaxy enters the poststarburst phase.
C. Having entered the poststarburst phase, a quenched galaxy is one that no longer forms stars.
D. Quenching occurs when a galaxy gains additional star-forming gas.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative (1789) described his experience of slavery; it contributed to the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
• Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) exposed unsafe conditions in US meatpacking plants; it contributed to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
• Equiano’s work was nonfiction (autobiography), Sinclair’s was fiction (novel).
• Both influenced legislation in very different domains.

3) The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two books. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

A. Both Equiano and Sinclair influenced readers, though they wrote on different topics.
B. Equiano’s autobiography helped end the slave trade, while Sinclair’s novel helped reform food safety.
C. Both The Interesting Narrative and The Jungle contributed to new legislation.
D. Although both influenced laws, Equiano’s was nonfiction while Sinclair’s was fiction.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• A thermal inversion occurs when an atmospheric layer is warmer than the layer beneath it.
• In 2022, researchers studied 25 gas giants composed mostly of hydrogen and helium.
• Gas giants with thermal inversions were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals.
• Metals may reside in upper atmospheres, where absorbed heat raises temperatures.

4) The student wants to present the study’s findings to an audience already familiar with thermal inversions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

A. Researchers found that gas giants with thermal inversions were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals.
B. The team studied 25 gas giants, which are mostly hydrogen and helium.
C. Heat-absorbing metals may raise upper atmospheric temperatures.
D. Some planets lacked metals in their atmospheres.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• In 1971, Pauline Oliveros created Sonic Meditations, a series of sound-based exercises.
• Each meditation provides instructions to make, imagine, listen to, or remember sounds.
• Meditation V: “walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”
• Meditation XVIII: “listen to a sound until you no longer recognize it.”
• Sonic Meditations was experimental and not conventional music.

5) The student wants to provide an explanation and an example of Oliveros’s Sonic Meditations. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes?

A. Sonic Meditations is a set of sound-based instruction pieces; for example, Meditation XVIII asks participants to “listen to a sound until you no longer recognize it.”
B. Meditation XVIII says “listen,” whereas Meditation V says “walk.”
C. In 1971, Oliveros created a series that tells participants to make, imagine, listen to, or remember sounds.
D. One example from the series instructs, “walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”

SAT 리딩 기출 유형 — Rhetorical Synthesis: 정답 확인

SAT 리딩 기출 유형 — Rhetorical Synthesis(노트 기반 선택) 문제 푸는 방법

1. Notes → Purpose → Best Choice

문제는 항상 “어떤 선택지가 주어진 노트와 학생의 목적을 가장 효과적으로 달성하느냐”를 묻습니다.
루틴: (i) 지시문에서 목적/독자 확인 → (ii) 노트 중 불필요한 정의·배경 제거 → (iii) 목적을 직접 달성하는 문장 고르기.
힌트 문구: “most effectively uses relevant information / which choice accomplishes the goal …” → 전부 Rhetorical Synthesis 신호입니다.