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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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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by NASA. Via land rover, of course.
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Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
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The most important word in this question is "overall." Don't tell it we said that, though. It already
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has a big enough ego as it is.
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The key thing here is not to zoom in on any of the specific details; instead, we need
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to zoom out to get the full picture the passage is trying to paint.
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We'll start by taking a look at choice (B).
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This information about Mars in popular culture is covered in the first paragraph, but doesn't
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pop up in the rest of the passage.
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We can cross this one out for being too specific... and for also failing to mention the first
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Total Recall movie.
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Arnold would not be pleased.
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Answer (C) doesn't quite make the cut either.
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Though the passage does mention some nifty facts about Mars, overall it doesn't go
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into a whole lot of detail about the planet itself.
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(D) also doesn't work.
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Several NASA missions to Mars are mentioned, but a whole lot more goes into them than the passage tells us.
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Choice (A) gets it just right.
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The passage's overall purpose is to introduce the missions to Mars and to provide some information
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about the planet.
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Although Total Recall has always been our go-to resource for all things Mars-related...?
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