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SAT practice module 7: Reading and Writing
A digital SAT Reading and Writing module at the level of the harder second module: 27 questions in 32 minutes. Passages cover how birds learn song, faithful translation, the failed 1936 election poll, painted Greek sculpture, Milky Way orbits and finding longitude at sea.
Exam mode: timed, answers at the end, like the real test. Practice mode: untimed, the answer and explanation after each question.
What is in this test
| Multiple choice, one answer | 27 questions | instant marking |
Covers: craft and structure (8) · information and ideas (7) · standard english conventions (7) · expression of ideas (5)
A sample question
In the eighteenth century, a ship's navigator could find latitude fairly easily by measuring the height of the sun or of the pole star. Finding longitude, however, required knowing the exact time at a reference place, such as the home port, while at sea. Pendulum clocks, the most accurate timekeepers of the age, could not keep good time aboard a rolling ship. It follows that, before reliable sea-going clocks were developed, ______ Which choice most logically completes the text?
- sailors could not measure latitude at all.
- ships never sailed out of sight of land.
- navigators' estimates of their east-west position were probably much less accurate than their estimates of their north-south position.
- pendulum clocks were the main tool for finding longitude at sea.
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.