SAT Reading & Writing · Craft and Structure
Cross-Text Connections practice questions
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- Question 10**Text 1** Excavators at the Shanidar Cave site in Iraq found dense clusters of ancient pollen surrounding a Neanderthal burial.…
- Question 11**Text 1** An architecture critic praises a newly restored cathedral facade for faithfully preserving the building's original…
- Question 12**Text 1** A restaurant critic praises a new restaurant for its creative menu, noting that several dishes combine ingredients…
- Question 37**Text 1** Forest ecologists studying fire-adapted ecosystems have found that regular, carefully controlled low-intensity burns…
- Question 38**Text 1** A philosopher argues that translated poetry inevitably loses something essential from the original, since the…
- Question 39**Text 1** A city council member argues that the new bike lanes have made downtown streets safer for cyclists, citing a drop in…
- Question 61**Text 1** Early observational studies that tracked postmenopausal women over time found that those who chose to take hormone…
- Question 62**Text 1** A literary scholar argues that a poet's frequent use of nautical imagery, ships, storms, harbors, throughout her work…
- Question 63**Text 1** Observational studies found that people whose diets were naturally high in antioxidant-rich foods, including foods…
- Question 83**Text 1** Nutritional studies have long noted that beta-carotene, an antioxidant compound abundant in many fruits and…
- Question 84**Text 1** Public health researchers studying organized breast-cancer screening programs have found that regular mammography is…
- Question 85**Text 1** Large cohort studies following hundreds of thousands of participants over many years have found that people who…
- Question 111**Text 1** Older observational studies tracking large populations found that people who drank moderate amounts of red wine had…
- Question 112**Text 1** Radiologists note that MRI scans of patients experiencing back pain frequently reveal structural abnormalities such…
- Question 127**Text 1** Orthopedic surgeons have long reasoned that arthroscopic surgery to wash out or trim damaged cartilage in an…
- Question 128**Text 1** Surgeons have traditionally treated appendicitis with prompt appendectomy, viewing surgical removal of the inflamed…
- Question 159**Text 1** For years, pediatric guidance recommended that parents of infants at high risk for food allergies avoid introducing…
- Question 160**Text 1** An early single-center study suggested that keeping critically ill patients' blood sugar within a very tight target…
- Question 169**Text 1** Physicians have long reasoned that compression stockings should help prevent dangerous blood clots in stroke patients…
- Question 170**Text 1** An influential early study reported that holding an expansive, "powerful" body posture for a few minutes affected…
- Question 188**Text 1** An influential early experiment asked participants to hold a pen in their mouth in a way that activated muscles…
- Question 189**Text 1** Psychologists have described a pattern in which people who perform poorly on a task tend to overestimate their…
- Question 207**Text 1** A widely cited psychological framework describes "grit," a combination of sustained perseverance and passion for…
- Question 208**Text 1** Many students report a clear preference for having information presented in a particular format, such as visual…
- Question 239**Text 1** Laboratory studies measuring short-term outcomes have found that participants who played a violent video game showed…
- Question 240**Text 1** Clinical trials comparing mindfulness meditation programs to no treatment at all have found that participants in the…
- Question 258**Text 1** Advocates of open-plan office design have argued that removing walls and private offices increases spontaneous…
- Question 259**Text 1** Several cash-transfer experiments providing unconditional payments to participants have found little average…
- Question 276**Text 1** Advocates of rent control policies argue that limiting how much landlords can raise rent protects existing tenants…
- Question 279**Text 1** Advocates of right-to-work laws, which prohibit requiring union membership as a condition of employment, argue that…
- Question 280**Text 1** Studies of paid parental leave policies have found that access to paid leave increases the amount of time parents…
- Question 293**Text 1** Economists studying a particular industry have found that companies adopting a new automation technology reported…
- Question 297**Text 1** Nutrition researchers studying large populations have found that people who report eating diets high in fiber tend to…