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TSI Reading: Using Details to Detemine the Setting 4 Views


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Description:

A reader can tell from the description in the passage that the story takes place

(A)in a cold, mountainous region
(B)during sub-zero temperatures
(C)somewhere in the Antarctic
(D)along an Alaskan creek


Transcript

00:03

Okay third of three analyzing freezing to death V s

00:07

sulphur creek is a painful couple paragraphs to read or

00:10

write A reader can tell from the description in the

00:12

passage that the story takes place The wear Don't think

00:18

about this We know the setting of this story is

00:20

cold and snowy It's all over this passage too late

00:24

The protagonist remembers the advice He was given that well

00:27

after fifty below a man should travel with a partner

00:31

Well we know for sure that the temperatures are sub

00:33

zero Probably way sub zero which also explains why the

00:37

poor man's hands are almost frozen solid So it's got

00:40

to be be certainly during sub zero temperatures is at

00:43

least certainly correct here some mothers might be but let's

00:47

go to lose your bowl here Yes it's called there's

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no description of any mountains so what's a antarctic is

00:52

probably as cold as it gets But without the penguins

00:55

running around there's no way to tell the exact location

00:57

story like it could be the arctic or siberia And

01:00

yes alaska's cold too and there's mention of sulfur creek

01:03

But we can't know the exact location from this excerpt

01:06

so it might be right But it's certainly not the

01:08

best answer Where during sub zero temperatures like you can't

01:12

argue that that's not at least one right answer Maybe

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if i asked you to pick the two Best You

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could throw that one in there but they didn't They

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wanted the best So it's b and we're going to

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go get a coat and a nice warm cup of 00:01:23.228 --> [endTime] soup

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