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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by storms of fish. Bad for fish, great for grizzly bears.

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Check out the following passage...

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The writer is considering adding another phrase to the end of the preceding sentence.

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Given that all of the following choices are true, which one provides the most significant new information?

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The correct answer will boast information that's found nowhere else in the passage.

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The correct answer will boast information that’s found nowhere else in the passage.

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So all we have to do is scan through the passage and check to see which of these phrases is

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redundant and which adds something new.

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Choice (D) can go because the sentence, itself, mentions a "ring of spraying water."

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We're no experts, but if this thing is spraying water, it's guaranteed to be scattering it as well.

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Option (C) fills us in on how the funnels extend from the water to the sky.

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It didn't need to bother, though, because the very next sentence tells us the same thing.

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Too bad, (C), we've heard it all before.

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Choice (A) is more of a challenge to eliminate. The word "dissipate" doesn't actually

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appear anywhere in the passage. However, when something "dissipates" it disperses and

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disappears. The molecules it's made of go their separate ways, and it is no more.

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This goes along with the section in Paragraph 3 that describes waterspouts losing their

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energy and raining objects back to the earth. The correct answer is (B), which gives us

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new information by telling us that the "mature" waterspout can be a mile wide.

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A mile wide? Maybe it should think about low fat frogs next time.

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