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ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
ACT Reading: Natural Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
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SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 2, Problem 1
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- 00:03
Holy Shmoop, Batman! Another question... Go ahead and hit pause so you can review this
- 00:08
passage. We're not going anywhere.
- 00:16
According to the information given in the passage, which of the following is true about
- 00:20
our understanding of the ocean floor?
- 00:23
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:35
Here's the awesome thing about short passages:
- 00:37
no matter how boring they are, they're quick to sift through.
- 00:40
In this case, we're looking for the truest statement, so let's evaluate each of our answer
- 00:47
choices in turn. First, we can eliminate (A)...
- 00:50
Because lines 9 through 10 tell us that it took several hundred years to develop our
- 00:55
knowledge of the ocean floor, so the first navigators couldn't have figured it all
- 00:59
out on their own.
- 01:02
We can cross out (B) as well, because lines 5 through 9 tell us that the first navigators
- 01:06
did at least figure out that the ocean floor varies in depth.
- 01:09
Choice (E) is easy to toss overboard because the first line tells us that most of the earth's
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surface is below water.
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We can nix (D), because the final line tells us everything going on with land is connected
- 01:21
with what's going on underwater. So (C) is the only correct answer.
- 01:25
Maybe it's a good thing the early navigators didn't figure it all out at once.
- 01:29
It might've been too much to handle.
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