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ACT Reading: Natural Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 10. Based on the tone and complexity of this passage, in which of the following contexts might you expect to see this passage?
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- 00:04
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by rocket scientists. It doesn't take a
- 00:07
rocket scientist to figure out what these people do.
- 00:33
Based on the tone and complexity of this passage, in which of the following contexts might you expect
- 00:38
to see this passage?
- 00:49
Sometimes this type of question can be the toughest, because it requires us to synthesize
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- 00:53
everything we've learned about the passage.
- 00:55
We aren't afraid, though.
- 00:56
We'll nix answer (D) first.
- 00:57
There aren't enough mentions of Gentry Lee for this to be an autobiography about him.
- 01:03
If choice (C) were true, then the passage wouldn't need to go into so much background.
- 01:06
You'd have to be the slackest NASA scientist of the crew to not already know about these missions.
- 01:11
We can get rid of (B) for basically the same reason as (C).
- 01:15
An academic article wouldn't need to give such a broad overview...
- 01:18
...and instead would be more likely to go into intense detail about a particular subject.
- 01:22
Choice (A) is the way to go.
- 01:24
It makes sense for the passage to have come from a newspaper...
- 01:27
...since it takes the time to educate us peons about the back story of NASA's mission.
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