10 free PSAT/NMSQT practice questions in the real exam format, covering the official content areas, with an explanation for every answer.
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Craft and Structure
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase to describe the network of routes?
The Silk Road is often pictured as a single highway linking China to the Mediterranean. Many historians, however, describe it as a ______ web of overland and sea routes that shifted over the centuries as empires rose and fell. Few merchants ever traveled its full length; instead, goods passed through many hands along the way.