SAT R&W W90: Mixed Practice 1 — Conventions Under Time (25 seconds a question)

The stone used for the cathedral came from a quarry eleven miles away and was moved in winter on sledges over frozen a loaded cart would have sunk to the axle on the same route in any other season.

The list of ships lost in the gale of 1881, compiled from the customs books of four ports and never published in full, a hundred and thirty names, of which nineteen belonged to the same village.

Left in the ground over winter and lifted only after the first hard frost, The change is not in the sugar itself but in what the cold does to the starch already in the root.

The two dialects are separated by about forty miles of moorland, and each keeps words the other lost. Speakers on the northern side still use eleven terms for kinds of snow, and vocabulary for peat cutting is the richer of the two by a wide margin.

A hand-set page was locked into its frame with wedges, and the compositor tested it by lifting one corner: if a single letter fell out, the whole page had to be tightened again. The speed was measured in letters an hour, and a good one set about fifteen hundred.

The habit of building a boat for this coast with two keels rather than from a single practical fact: the harbour dries out completely at low water, and a boat with one keel would fall on its side in the mud twice a day.

Rye was sown in September and cut in July, wheat was sown a month later and cut at the same time, and in the spring on land that had carried neither of them. The rotation was fixed by the manor court and did not change for two centuries.

The names are cut into the waist of a bell rather than the crown, which is why they survive on bells that have been re-hung twice and had the whole top of the casting replaced.