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CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by graduation speeches Hopefully ones that don't quote dr seuss
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All right check the following passage Green eggs and ham
- 00:16
Folks Think All right enough marketing done reading All right
- 00:25
here we go Read this excerpt from the selection ready
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These are my best friends my classmates After today my
- 00:32
fellow alumni i told myself well which of the following
- 00:35
is the best way to express the meaning of the
- 00:37
word alumni in the sentence and hear the potential answers
- 00:41
people definitely people All right this one's mega easy if
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we know the definition of the word alumni but even
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if we don't know the meaning or if it was
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wiped from our brains during that recent alien abduction probing
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waken still figure it out All right let's kick beat
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the curve First of all no Where in the segment
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does the narrator say that she's not going to be
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friends with her fellow classmates after graduation Although a graduation
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speech in which he ended all friendships by announcing exactly
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what you didn't like about all of them would probably
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do the trick The speaker doesn't seem to have any
- 01:11
plans to annihilate friendship today though so we're sure b
- 01:13
is on the wrong track If we were kind of
- 01:15
barely paying attention we might pick option c Narrator does
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say that her classmates are her best friend Well but
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come on really all of them She must be way
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more popular than we weren't deal anyway The key phrase
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in the segment is after today her classmates will transform
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into alumni after today since they're already close friends according
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to speaker we're sure that c can't be right Using
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this logic We know that option d can only be
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right at the graduation ceremony was followed by some huge
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catastrophe There's no indication of passenger with america's colleges in
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a tsunami zone or anything like that So across the
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off the list which leaves us with a is the
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correct answer After today the one thing these kids will
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all have in common is that they all graduated from
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the same school That and they will all soon learn 00:01:59.761 --> [endTime] the joys of enormous student loan debt
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