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SAT Reading Section: Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 1
SAT Reading 5.4 Sentence Completion 178 Views
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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 5, Problem 4
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- 00:03
Shmoop alert. Unidentified flying question has been spotted...
- 00:08
Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:11
In a working ecosystem, plants and animals blank in a self-sustaining cycle.
- 00:18
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:23
We don't need a background in ecology to figure this one out.
Full Transcript
- 00:27
The context clue, "self-sustaining cycle," lets us know that we're looking for a word
- 00:32
that describes how plants and animals manage to live in the same place without completely
- 00:36
destroying each other...
- 00:37
Although no one seems to have had a talk with the Venus flytrap.
- 00:41
Both "clash" and "collide" describe things slamming into each other...
- 00:45
Which doesn't exactly get across the idea of peace and harmony.
- 00:48
"Alternate" and "exchange" are on the right track, but both words describe things
- 00:52
switching places rather than living together side by side.
- 00:56
Since to "coexist" means to live in the same place at the same time,
- 01:02
(D) is the correct answer.
- 01:04
Shmoop would like to issue a formal apology to the Flytrap Anti-Defamation League for
- 01:08
our prior comment.
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