Free SAT Inferences practice questionsdigital SAT, 2026 format
A text ends mid-thought with a blank, and you choose the conclusion that follows from what was said. The right answer stays one small step from the text; the traps leap further.
Answer each question, then read why the right answer is right and why the tempting one is wrong.
Question 1
Reading and Writing
Cuttlefish can change the color and texture of their skin within milliseconds, an ability controlled directly by the nervous system rather than by hormones. Because the animals are colorblind, researchers long wondered how they match backgrounds so precisely. Recent work shows that cuttlefish skin contains light-sensitive proteins of the same type found in their eyes, suggesting that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Question 2
Reading and Writing
Ravens have been observed to cache food and later retrieve it, and to move caches when another raven is watching. In an experiment, ravens that had previously stolen from others' caches were more likely to move their own caches when observed than ravens that had never stolen. The researchers suggest that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Question 3
Reading and Writing
A standard argument holds that written constitutions constrain governments because officials fear the courts. Political scientist Halvard Ibsen tested that claim against 60 constitutional crises in which a head of government defied a court order. In 43 of them the defiance failed, and Ibsen found that in every one of those 43 the decisive resistance came from officials below the top — registrars who declined to file, commanders who declined to deploy, auditors who declined to sign. Courts issued the orders, but they did not enforce them. Ibsen's conclusion is that the constraint operates not through fear of judgment but through ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
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