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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the main purpose of this passage?
SAT Reading 3.5 Long Passages 170 Views
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Reading Long Passages: Drill 3, Problem 5
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- 00:04
Who ordered the Shmoop a l'orange? Anyone for Shmoop a l'orange?
- 00:10
As if you didn't know this passage was coming back
- 00:11
to haunt you... hit pause, take another look...you know you gotta.
- 00:29
It can be inferred from lines 40 through 43 that... what?
- 00:34
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:38
All right, it looks like we're going to
- 00:39
have to go back and take a look at lines 40 through 43 to answer this one.
- 00:43
So, basically, Muir was great at hobnobbing with the stars, and that skill boosted his
- 00:49
career in a major way.
- 00:58
Now we just have to go through and find the answer choice that comes the closest to saying
- 01:02
the same thing as the lines referenced in the question.
- 01:05
Choice (A) is not what we're looking for at all. If this one were true, then Muir would've
- 01:10
been a wallflower, writing in the corner at all the cool parties.
- 01:14
We just found out how skilled he was at socializing,
- 01:18
so this answer choice isn't getting invited
- 01:20
to any of our parties. (D) also gets a big no. While being a social
- 01:24
butterfly definitely contributed to Muir's rise to fame, he probably wouldn't have
- 01:29
gotten so far if he didn't actually know what he was talking about.
- 01:34
Could it be true that Muir had all these connections from earlier in his life? Was he born into
- 01:39
wealthy and influential circles?
- 01:41
No way. The rest of the passage makes it clear that Muir was an immigrant born into a working
- 01:46
class family.
- 01:48
He worked at factories, a sawmill, and ranches, so it seems highly likely that he was already
- 01:53
hobnobbing with the elite. (E) is a sneaky one. It's the only answer
- 01:57
choice so far that is actually true. The passage does tell us that Muir's writing got high-profile
- 02:03
people to check out Yosemite.
- 02:05
However...and this is a big however...lines 40 through 43 are zeroed in on how Muir's
- 02:11
schmoozing skills "enhanced his reputation"...
- 02:14
...not on how he got stars to check out Yosemite in person. Therefore, we can give (E) the boot.
- 02:21
Well, well...looks like we've come down
- 02:24
to one final answer. We hope it's the right one.
- 02:26
Yup. (C) makes the makes the most sense because it recognizes that Muir's social skills
- 02:32
and his writing skills were key to making him the star he was.
- 02:36
What a blogger he'd be today.
- 02:39
Next week, tune in to get the dirt on his affairs and battles with addiction.
- 02:42
Yes...that's you Charlie Sheen.
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