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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
PSAT 1.1 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. The passage excerpt most strongly suggests that the Curiosity rover performs best on which of the following...
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PSAT 1.2 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. As used in line 2, "current" most nearly means...what?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by polar bears If you ever
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see one of them scratching and it could be because
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he has an arc tick check the passage Sorry but
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i'm study electrical early works just modern parliament hybridization and
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brown bears Twenty eight Sample on northern both fourteen All
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right as used in line to current most nearly means
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What and hear The potential answers are Unfortunately there isn't
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an answer choice for well informed or in the know
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so we can assume that the word current isn't in
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reference to a bunch of polar bears who get a
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newspaper every morning and watched cnn In fact if we
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read the sentence carefully it becomes clear that the word
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isn't in reference to polar bears at all But to
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the hybridization of polar bears is actually a big difference
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Okay so now the question is how did the writer
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intend to describe this hybridization I uh you know getting
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it on was he calling it see moving water Well
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that would be pretty abstract of him Moving water is
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one definition of the word current but it doesn't work
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in this instance it's not even the right part of
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speech though we consent options a gently down three Did
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he mean to describe it as be slowly developing Well
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that it makes sense Although it's not really supported by
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anything else in the paragraph There's not really Any talk
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about how long this process is taken So maybe there
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is a better choice option D sort of fits into
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the same box the hybridization could be Described as accidental
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but once again it would come a bit out of
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the blue really it sounds more like the way one
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of the polar bears might defend himself to his girlfriend
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Option A however leaves no room for doubt there's a
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huge emphasis in this passage on the idea that these
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air studies based on present day findings the first sentence
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mentions modern polar bears and it's probably not referring to
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those who decorate their homes with contemporary flourishes And the
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lassen says that the observed hybridization it is a recent
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phenomenon so because it's apparent that the writer really really
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really wants has to understand that this happened Basically yesterday
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Option a is the best choice All of this talk
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polar bear as well You know i was making us
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hungry for an eskimo pie all right that ruined our 00:02:16.553 --> [endTime] appetite Yeah no
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