SAT R&W W92: Mixed Practice 3 — A Full Writing Half-Module (14 Questions)

A watermark is made by a wire design sewn onto the mould, which presses the pulp thinner where it lies. Held up to the light, , and a mill's whole output can often be dated from it to within five years.

The set of hand tools that the last wheelwright in the village left to the museum two hundred and six pieces, and forty of them have no modern name.

Cold water holds more dissolved oxygen than warm water a trout stream that warms by three degrees in a dry summer can lose a fifth of its oxygen without losing a drop of its flow.

The bell was cast in 1623 by a founder whose work survives in eleven parishes, and initials appear on the waist under a band of lettering that nobody has yet read in full.

By the time the surveyors reached the last of the four valleys in October, the river its course twice since their first visit, and two of the boundary stones they had set were under water.

The bindery kept three kinds of thread, four weights of board and two colours of headband, and every job book entry names was used. The entries are what allow a binding to be matched to a shop two centuries later.

A drystone wall is built in two skins with small stones packed between them, tied every yard by a long through stone and with a row of flat slabs set on edge along the top. Nothing in it is mortared, and a good wall stands for a hundred and fifty years.

The hall stands at the end of a lane that leads nowhere else, which is why so little of it was ever pulled down. Six of the seven medieval guild halls in the city went between 1840 and 1890.

A cathedral clock of the fourteenth century had no face and no hands: it existed to strike a bell, and the bell told the town when to pray. the earliest surviving dials were added to mechanisms that had already been running for fifty or sixty years.

Peat cores from the bog hold pollen in the order it fell, so a centimetre of peat is a decade of vegetation. The elm pollen in cores from all over north-west Europe drops away sharply at about the same depth. nobody has yet shown whether the cause was disease, climate or clearance by farmers.

The society printed its transactions on rag paper until 1878 and on wood-pulp paper afterwards, because the newer paper cost a third as much. is now brown and brittle at the edges, while the volumes printed before that date can still be opened flat without damage.

Sound carries further over water at night because the air just above the surface cools faster than the air higher up, and sound bends towards the cooler, slower layer. a conversation on one bank of a wide estuary can be followed word for word on the other, which is why smugglers worked in silence.