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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by oak trees we just

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don't like them we're not sure why maybe it's because they're always given us [A girl sat underneath an oak tree]

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shade all right, check out the passage right here... [mumbling]

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[mumbles]

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......All right which quotation from the passage

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explains why the runners were sitting in the shade of an oak tree and guzzling

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ice water and here the potential answers ...... all right

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wait a second you need a reason to sit in the shade and drink ice water well [Man sitting in the shade and drinking ice water]

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that sounds amazing but okay there must be something in the passage that made

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the runners especially want to take a load off and get hydrated we're guessing

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it probably has something to do with it being a hot day call us crazy..All right [The sun looking down]

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so how does option A) look the runners met at the track right on saturday

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morning in July nope we're told they're meeting in July but that doesn't

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necessarily mean it was hot maybe it was unseasonable cool or maybe they're [Girl shouting for ice skates]

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meeting at a track in Alaska or South Argentina so with just this much

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information there isn't enough to go on A) is out what about B) big white clouds

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floated across the sky, well isn't that nice good news if anyone decides to [Man painting a blue sky]

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paint a landscape but otherwise it still doesn't tell us if it was a hot day or

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not so.. clouds clouds go away come again another day option B) it's not it

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yeah okay C) they started running at 10, okay good to know they took time to [Girl eating breakfast]

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eat breakfast first yeah although that Denny's Grand Slam might really start

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hitting in about the 15th lap but still no mention of the weather so eliminate [People waiting on a track]

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C) here we go, D) D gives us what we're looking for by 11 the Sun had

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burned through the clouds and the runners were sweating a lot..The

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Sun had burned, sweating a lot, those phrases are both indications that it was [Phrases highlighted in a passage]

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toasty outside and at some time under a tree with a glass of cool water was

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definitely in order and was also a good chance to work out some of the cramps [People under an oak tree drinking water]

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from that big breakfast maybe just some oatmeal with a banana next time...

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