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CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill. In this line from the story, the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is...what?

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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you

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by pulsating whispers and other freaky things We'd rather nothing

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No come on Check the following passage Funny green and

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every lot of grieving lansing's marking our lumber blower going

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another world terrain Yeah sharp corners All right we're done

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unknown Read this excerpt from the selection the words mixed

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into the buzz of whispers that pulsated through the crap

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All right well in this line from the story of

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the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is what

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and hear the pendulum boredom Well a buzz of pulsating

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whispers huh Hollywood we've got your next blockbuster right here

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Well it sounds weird when taken out of context but

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question here is what the narrator wants us to get

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from this description The choice is a definite no if

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there's one thing everybody knows about pulsating whispers it's that

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they're never boring Answer b is no good to you

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The narrator never describes the temperature of the day She

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uses the words stick and lucky but she uses them

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to describe feelings of love happiness not the weather If

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you ask us anyone whose love makes the room thick

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and mcgee on a ticket outside at very least crackle

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All right we can cross off choice Dia's Well nobody's

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aggravated here This Is good for the narrator because angry

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mobs are notoriously unrestricted to graduations The correct answer is

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c These whispers are buzzing and pulsating because the crowd

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is excited about the graduation And as a rule of

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thumb we try to stay away from things that buzz 00:01:50.938 --> [endTime] and pulsate But i guess it's okay

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