SAT® Reading & Writing Practice Question: Standard English Conventions
Also Great Practice for ACT® English
Today’s practice is a mock SAT® Standard English Conventions question. For proper time management on test day, you should aim to answer this question correctly in a maximum of 20 seconds.
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In his 2015 book The Digital Mind: Computing and Consciousness, philosopher James Chen first explored at length his theory of "computational psychology"—the idea that the various algorithmic and mathematical principles a computer has encoded (binary, logic gates, parallel processing, etc.) ______ each cognitive function a computer performs within a task.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. determines
B. is determining
C. determine
D. has been determining
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