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SAT Reading 1.2 Short Passages 274 Views
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SAT Reading Short Passages Drill 1, Problem 2
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- Information and Ideas / Citing textual evidence
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Expository Texts / Logical Connections
- Complex Inferences / Expository
- Analyzing arguments / Analyzing evidence
Transcript
- 00:03
Here a Shmoop, there a Shmoop, everywhere a Shmoop Shmoop...
- 00:07
We'll just chill while you press pause and keep reading the following passage.
- 00:19
According to the passage, the "fantasy of the future" in line 10 had become a reality
- 00:23
through all of the following developments EXCEPT...what?
- 00:27
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:36
When you see a word written in all caps that usually
- 00:38
means it's important--or at least somebody thinks it's important.
- 00:41
This question puts EXCEPT in all caps, hitting us over the head with the idea that we have
- 00:46
to find the thing on this list that the passage doesn't mention.
- 00:50
If only Steve Jobs had come up with a USB port that plugged directly into our brains,
- 00:53
we wouldn't have to skim through the passage again.
- 00:55
Unfortunately, he didn't, so we'll just have to go back through it and cross off the
- 00:59
answer choices we find here.
- 01:57
After careful review, we find that (B), "shifts in the workforce," is the only one that's not mentioned in the passage.
- 02:04
Just wait to see what shifts in the workforce happen when the iBrain finally does come out.
- 02:08
Creepy.
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