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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?
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you
- 00:05
by pulsating whispers and other freaky things We'd rather nothing
- 00:10
No come on Check the following passage Funny green and
- 00:20
every lot of grieving lansing's marking our lumber blower going
- 00:26
another world terrain Yeah sharp corners All right we're done
Full Transcript
- 00:34
unknown Read this excerpt from the selection the words mixed
- 00:39
into the buzz of whispers that pulsated through the crap
- 00:43
All right well in this line from the story of
- 00:44
the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is what
- 00:50
and hear the pendulum boredom Well a buzz of pulsating
- 00:55
whispers huh Hollywood we've got your next blockbuster right here
- 01:00
Well it sounds weird when taken out of context but
- 01:02
question here is what the narrator wants us to get
- 01:05
from this description The choice is a definite no if
- 01:09
there's one thing everybody knows about pulsating whispers it's that
- 01:12
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
- 01:19
uses the words stick and lucky but she uses them
- 01:22
to describe feelings of love happiness not the weather If
- 01:25
you ask us anyone whose love makes the room thick
- 01:28
and mcgee on a ticket outside at very least crackle
- 01:32
All right we can cross off choice Dia's Well nobody's
- 01:34
aggravated here This Is good for the narrator because angry
- 01:37
mobs are notoriously unrestricted to graduations The correct answer is
- 01:42
c These whispers are buzzing and pulsating because the crowd
- 01:46
is excited about the graduation And as a rule of
- 01:48
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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