Reading Standards for Informational Text: Advanced Literary Comprehension (CCSS.RI.8.4) Practice Test

Using a new satellite, researchers produced maps with far greater resolution. Where earlier images looked grainy and blurred, the updated pictures let them delineate marsh channels and narrow inlets with precision.

In the old boathouse, the iron hinges had been left to the sea air all winter. By spring, a reddish-brown film had crept over the metal, and the once-smooth surface felt brittle and flaky. The caretaker sighed, explaining that without a protective coating, the hinges would oxidize quickly in the humid salt breeze.