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SAT Reading 3.4 Long Passages 177 Views
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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 3, Passages
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- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author’s ideas or claims are developed
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author’s ideas or claims are developed
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how they develop
- Vocabulary / Analyze how an author uses the meaning of a key term
- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
Transcript
- 00:08
Hey, it's your old buddy, the passage about John Muir.
- 00:11
Press pause if you'd like to get to know him all over again.
- 00:28
The phrase "fancied himself the definitive authority on the subject" serves to...what?
- 00:33
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:38
To answer this question, we'll take a peek
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- 00:40
back at lines 35 through 36.
- 00:42
Hm, looks like Hutchings wasn't too happy about Muir's "newfound prominence
- 00:47
as a Yosemite spokesman."
- 00:49
We'd better call the guys from Monster Hunters, because it looks like Yosemite is being terrorized
- 00:54
by that green-eyed monster known as...jealousy!
- 00:57
Duhn, duhn, duhn!
- 00:59
Hutchings might have been concerned about
- 01:01
Yosemite, but people consumed with jealousy aren't exactly selfless.
- 01:05
The green-eyed monster... is a little self-involved.
- 01:08
Hutchings was all about Yosemite. It's this very thing that made him so jealous of Muir
- 01:12
in the first place.
- 01:13
Sawmill? Who's talking about a sawmill?
- 01:16
We're looking for an answer that points to these two bickering over Yosemite.
- 01:20
(D) is a definite no. (E) is on the right track, but it doesn't
- 01:23
work because there aren't really any other accounts mentioned.
- 01:27
These two had one big dispute that we know about, and it starts with a capital Y.
- 01:30
This leaves only choice (A), which explains why Hutchings
- 01:34
was so monstrously jealous of Muir.
- 01:36
Boys, boys... there's enough Yosemite to go around for everyone...
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