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SAT Reading Passage Comparison Drill 5, Problem 8
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by rising sea levels. Well, at least our Iowa
- 00:08
branch will soon be beachfront property.
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The authors of both passages would agree that... what?
- 00:39
The authors of our two passages don't agree on many things—including the existence of
- 00:43
global warming. Author 1 thinks man-made global warming is a dangerous reality threatening
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to devour the Earth.
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Author 2 thinks it's no big deal.
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Having fixed both authors' opinions firmly in our minds, we can now do some eliminating.
- 00:58
Author 1 would be cool with choices (B) and (D), since they both support the idea that
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climate change is man-made.
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Of course, Author 2 would have a thing or two to say about either choice, so both (B)
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and (D) are off the table.
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Choice (A) falls on Author 2's side of the fence...
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Which, of course, tells us that Author 1 would hate it. Choice (A) is off the list.
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Author 2 would love choice (C). He spends the whole first paragraph of his article talking
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about how the government should butt out.
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But that means...do we even need to say it?... Author 1 would loathe it.
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Both authors do agree that the government would take Drastic Measures if officials accepted
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global warming as a real problem.
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Based on the authors' statements in the third paragraph of Passage 1 and the first paragraph
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of Passage 2, we know that (E) is the one thing on which our authors can agree.
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Well, that and their mutual hatred of each other.
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