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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 2, Problem 8
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- 00:03
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- 00:07
Go ahead and press pause to take one last
- 00:09
look at this passage. Or... take a picture. It'll last longer.
- 00:46
The narrator's tone in the passage as a whole is best described as...what?
- 00:50
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:54
Too bad we can't hack into the narrator's
- 00:56
therapist's files. There we'd have a shortcut to figuring out the narrator's mood.
- 01:01
As it is, we'll just have to do it the old fashioned way and think back to what we've read.
- 01:05
So, does the narrator ever seem particularly
- 01:08
emotional or worried about the situation?
- 01:15
There's some deep emotions going on for sure, but he doesn't seem worried exactly.
- 01:19
We're going to have to nix choice (A).
- 01:21
Disdainful describes the idea of looking down on somebody or something.
- 01:25
Throughout, the narrator doesn't pull any punches in describing how bad his aunt looks,
- 01:30
but seems to have too much sympathy for her to be described as downright snobby.
- 01:34
As if we weren't already sure this one is wrong, it's laughable to say that the narrator
- 01:38
is not interested in what's going on.
- 01:41
Why would he bother to talk so much if that was the case?
- 01:43
(C) is easy it to cut from the list. Does he seem earnest, or sincere? Is he confused
- 01:48
at all?
- 01:49
"Earnest" gets a "yeah, kinda" from us. He's got a lot of very real emotions
- 01:53
bubbling up inside him.
- 01:54
However, the reflections in this passage are articulated way too precisely to say he's
- 01:59
confused about it all.
- 02:01
Choice (D) can be cut for sure. "Rapturous" describes somebody who's
- 02:05
being extremely enthusiastic, while "verbose" means to be extra talkative.
- 02:10
Knowing these definitions, we ask ourselves if it seems like the narrator is getting super
- 02:15
excited and going on and on about his aunt's visit.
- 02:17
We've got to say no to this one as well.
- 02:20
The guy seems calm and precise in his reflections, making (E) incorrect.
- 02:25
Answer (B)'s the one... because it points to the narrator's attitude of calm reflection.
- 02:30
He chooses his words carefully and ponders the significance of things that happen around him.
- 02:34
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