SAT PRACTICE TEST2 89. READING TEST 65 Minutes—52 Questions ‘Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section, Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph), Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. ‘The following passage is adapted from the nineteenth: century novel Three Men in a Boat. In this scene, George, William Samuel, Harris, Jerome, and a dog named Montmorency take a typical boating holiday of the time on a Thames River camping skiff. Jerome, the narrator, shares the story of how the journey with his friends began. George had towed us up to Staines, and we had taken the boat from there, and it seemed that we ‘were dragging fifty tons afer us, and were walking, tne forty miles. It was hal-past seven when we were 69 through, and we all got in, and sculled up close to the left bank, looking out fora spot to haul up in. ‘We had originally intended to go on to Magna Carta Island, a sweetly pretty part ofthe river, ‘where it winds through a sof, green valley, and to (10) camp in one of the many picturesque inlets to be found round that tiny shore. But, somehow, we did not feel that we yearned for the picturesque nearly so much now as we had earlier in the day. Abit of water between a coal-barge and a gas-works would (45) have quite satisfied us for that night. We did not ‘want scénery. We wanted to have our supper and go to bed. However, we did pull up to the point— “Picnic Point? itis called—and dropped into a very pleasant nook under a great elm-tree, to the (20) spreading roots of which we fastened the boat. “Then we thought we were going to have supper (we had dispensed with tea, so as to save time), but George said no; that we had better get the canvas up firs, before it got quite dark, and while we could (29) see what we vere doing, "Then, he sad, all our work. ‘would be done, and we could sit down to eat with, an easy mind, “That canvas wanted more putting up than T think any of us had bargained for Tt looked so simple in the abstract. You took five iron arches, like gigantic croquet hoops, and fitted them up ‘over the boat, and then stretched the canvas over ‘them, and fastened it down: it would take quite ten rinates, we thought. (69) ‘That was an under-estimate We took up the hoops, and began to drop them into the sockets placed for them. You would not imagine this to be dangerons works but, looking back now, the wonder to me is that any of us are (40) alive to tell the tale. They were not hoops, they were demons, First they would not fitinto their sockets atall, and we had to jump on them, and kick them, and hammer at them with the boat-hooks and, ‘when they were in, it turned out that they were the () wrong hoops for those particular sockets, and they hhad to come out again. But they would not come out, until two of us hhad gone and struggled with them for five minutes, ‘when they would jump up suddenly, and try and (60) throw us into the water and drown ws. They had hinges in the middle, and, when we were not look- ing, they nipped us with these hinges in delicate parts of the body; and, while we were wrestling with one side ofthe hoop, and endeavouring to 65) persuade itto do its duty, the other side would come behind us in a cowardly manner, and hit us over the head. e9 [ONTOTHE NET S