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ID: SAT-RW-EI-043
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Medium

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While researching the history of technology, a student has taken the following notes:

The Jacquard loom was developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard in early nineteenth-century France.
It was a weaving machine that could produce elaborate patterns automatically.
It used a chain of stiff cards with punched holes to control which threads were raised.
Each row of holes set the pattern for a single pass of the weft (the crosswise thread).
The punched-card idea later influenced designers of early computing machines.

The student wants to introduce the Jacquard loom to an audience unfamiliar with it. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

AEach row of punched holes in the loom's cards set the pattern for a single pass of the weft.

BThe Jacquard loom was a remarkable invention that influenced a great many machines built long after it. It is the kind of device whose importance is easy to assert in sweeping terms, and whose name tends to come up whenever people list the great milestones of industrial ingenuity.

CThe Jacquard loom, a weaving machine developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard in early nineteenth-century France, used a chain of punched cards to raise its threads, letting it weave elaborate patterns automatically.

DThe punched-card system of the Jacquard loom later inspired the designers of early computing machines.

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