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Thoreau was all about simplicity; anything that took away from his vision was the enemy. Mechanical aids were one of them. Guess he had to train a...
Thoreau wants our lives to be simplified. He claims that we gain less from life when we over-complicate things.
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SAT Reading 3.7 Sentence Completion 169 Views
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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 3, Problem 7
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Here's your Shmoop du jour... Which words could fill in the blanks so that
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the sentence below makes sense?
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According to his autobiography, noted polymath Benjamin Franklin sees education as an active
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and ongoing blank rather than a(n) blank and limited training ground.
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And here are the potential answers...
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In this sentence, the phrase "rather than" tells us that we'll need to look for opposing
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ideas. Opposite ones. Ones on the other side.
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In the red corner, wearing green trunks with gold trim, we have something that's "active
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and ongoing."
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In the blue corner, wearing black trunks with white trim, we have some kind of limited training
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ground.
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Since it's easier to find an antonym for "active" than for "training ground," let's start with
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the second blank.
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"Expanded" is not the opposite of passive.
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Neither is "liberal."
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Or "free."
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Or "unbounded."
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Looks like we're putting our money on (B). "Passive" is the only word that means nonactive...
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...and "vocation" refers to active employment, not training.
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(B) wins in a 12th-round knockout.
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