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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
seemed as it should be raining


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All right Aspiring test takers here Let's go to four

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of twelve And the focus is seemed as it should

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be raining right there Read the first paragraph way too

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many times We're gonna skip it and go down to

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number two Here are houses roof one house we'll fix

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that last time was made of sheets of heavy aluminum

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pattering Rain beats down along asleep Bam agreed covered patio

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When we arrived in panama i couldn't believe the heat

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It was like nothing i had ever experienced And rain

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it did We endured eight months of heavy rains followed

00:37

by four months of dry scorching heat It was so

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intensely human that it seemed as it should be raining

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at any moment that mobley wrongs that think about here

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We're looking for noah and pairs manholes in a big

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boat going by yet Well the sentence is trying to

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communicate that it was so human that it felt like

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it could rain at any moment Were based in california

01:00

here when we're not living in the internet so we

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don't get to experience that kind of weather every day

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The folks in queer yout mobile and astoria however that

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you do has written the underlined part is missing the

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word if and the word should isn't quite the best

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to convey the author's meaning either So you give her

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to see there would be raining ism or awkward version

01:24

of a sentence we want to revise on lee Seemed

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like it could Rain effectively conveys the meaning of the

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phrase in question So it's the best choice here and

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you kind of got to get inside the author's head

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and think about what they were trying to day right

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So it should read It was so intensely human that

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it seemed like it could rain at any moment Yeah

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way smoother All right that's the answer is b and 00:01:48.123 --> [endTime] be cool

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