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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
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SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 1, Problem 1
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Information and Ideas / Interpreting words and phrases in context
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Expository Texts / Inferences and Conclusions
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Reading closely / Citing textual evidence
Transcript
- 00:07
Hit pause and review the following passage.
- 00:08
We'll be over here if you need us...
- 00:16
The word "integration" in line 8 most nearly means... what?
- 00:21
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:27
The prefix "inte" in "integration"
Full Transcript
- 00:32
is our big clue here. It usually has something to do with mixing and mingling of some kind...
- 00:37
So we're looking for a word that conveys the idea...
- 00:41
...that cars would one day be intermixed with everyday life to create some kind of Disneyesque Tomorrowland.
- 00:47
And it doesn't include the Fast Pass for Space Mountain.
- 00:50
"Interruption" might have the same prefix as "integration," but it doesn't mean
- 00:54
the same thing at all.
- 00:56
Cars probably would've been a hard sell if people thought they'd interrupt their
- 00:59
lives.
- 01:00
"Achievement," "continuity," and "exclusion" don't have anything to do with intermingling...
- 01:05
So we can fire them into space...
- 01:07
The root word "combine" reminds us that a "combination" is a merging or joining
- 01:11
of things.
- 01:12
It doesn't mean the exact same thing as "integration," but it's the best choice
- 01:16
here.
- 01:16
Now excuse us while we ride the Carousel of Progress for the fifty-seventh time.
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