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ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the main purpose of this passage?
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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 3, Problem 1
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Shmoop... here it is... Shmoop... here it is...
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Which word could fill in the blank so that
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the sentence below makes sense?
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Children in military families often live blank lives, moving from post to post.
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Here are the potential answers.
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All right, this time we're looking for a word that means something similar to "moving
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from post to post."
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So whatever this word is, it's really hard to pin down...
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(A) is a definite no, because "native" means that someone is from a specific place.
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(B) doesn't fit either. "Settled" is the opposite of what we're looking for.
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(D) is off the list for the same reason. Someone who's "steady" wouldn't exactly move
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around a lot.
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(C) isn't what we're looking for. Some might think it's "boring" to move around a lot...
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...but it'd be a strange fit for this sentence. "Nomadic" means to move frequently without
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settling down permanently in one place. (E) is the correct answer.
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