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ID: SAT-RW-EI-028
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Easy

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Architect Camila Rossi studies wind towers, tall shafts built above houses in some hot, dry regions.
A wind tower catches breezes high above the street and channels the moving air down into the rooms below.
As the outside air passes over a small pool or damp surface at the base, it cools before spreading through the house.
The tower needs no electricity to move or cool the air.
Wind towers have been built in parts of the Middle East and South Asia for centuries.
Rossi is testing modern versions for use in warm cities.

The student wants to emphasize the main benefit a wind tower offers to people living in a hot, dry climate. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ABy channeling outside breezes down from above the street and cooling them over a damp surface at its base, a wind tower lowers the temperature inside a house without using any electricity.

BWind towers are a useful and long-established feature of buildings in hot regions. It is the sort of time-tested design that appears again and again across the architecture of warm places, one people have relied on comfortably for generation after generation.

CWind towers have been built in parts of the Middle East and South Asia for many centuries.

DA wind tower rises above the street, and Camila Rossi is testing modern versions for use in warm cities.

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