Daily Drill: SAT® Main Idea Practice Question
Also Great Practice for ACT® Reading
Today’s Daily Drill is a mock Main Idea Question. It follows the digital SAT® format1 but is also great preparation for ACT® Reading.
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Free SAT® Practice Question
Some linguistic studies involve analyzing language patterns in everyday conversations, and some involve examining language use in controlled laboratory settings. Each approach has advantages over the other. In naturalistic studies, researchers can more easily observe authentic communication patterns, and in lab studies, researchers can more easily isolate specific linguistic variables. But if, for example, the results from a conversational study and a lab study of bilingual code-switching contradict each other, one or both of the studies must have failed to account for some factor that was relevant to the speakers' language choices.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A. When the results of a naturalistic study and those from a lab study of a linguistic phenomenon such as bilingual code-switching conflict, the study in the natural setting is more likely than the lab study to have accurate results.
B. Studying linguistic phenomena such as bilingual code-switching in both naturalistic and lab settings is likely to yield conflicting results that researchers cannot fully resolve.
C. Linguistic phenomena such as bilingual code-switching can be effectively studied in both naturalistic and lab settings, but each approach has drawbacks that could affect the accuracy of the findings.
D. Differing results between naturalistic and lab studies of linguistic phenomena such as bilingual code-switching are a strong indication that both of the studies had design flaws that affected the accuracy of their results.
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