SAT Reading & Writing · Information and Ideas
Central Ideas and Details practice questions
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- Question 3A historian examining merchant correspondence from an eighteenth-century port found repeated complaints that official shipping…
- Question 9In a poem, the speaker describes repairing a watch inherited from a parent. Each time the watch begins ticking again, the…
- Question 27A museum placed short labels beside several abstract paintings. Visitors who read the labels spent slightly longer looking at…
- Question 35A botanist studying alpine plants notes that several species open their flowers only during a narrow part of the day. On cold…
- Question 36When a city library eliminated overdue fines for children’s books, the number of long-overdue books returned increased. Library…
- Question 59In a nineteenth-century novel, a young clerk repeatedly walks past an expensive restaurant on his way home but never enters.…
- Question 60In a short story, an elderly woman keeps a cracked blue bowl on the highest shelf in her kitchen even though she owns newer…
- Question 82An archivist comparing drafts of a speech finds that the speaker repeatedly replaced absolute claims such as “this policy will…
- Question 110Researchers analyzing a century of bird observations found that several species now arrive at northern breeding grounds earlier…
- Question 187A linguist recorded speakers from three neighboring towns and found that younger speakers used several pronunciations that were…
- Question 275A coastal town restored a salt marsh along a section of shoreline that had previously been protected by a concrete wall. During…
- Question 289A literary critic notes that a novelist introduces a minor character as boastful and unreliable, encouraging readers to discount…