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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 1.2 Short Passages 274 Views
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SAT Reading Short Passages Drill 1, Problem 2
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- Information and Ideas / Citing textual evidence
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Expository Texts / Logical Connections
- Complex Inferences / Expository
- Analyzing arguments / Analyzing evidence
Transcript
- 00:03
Here a Shmoop, there a Shmoop, everywhere a Shmoop Shmoop...
- 00:07
We'll just chill while you press pause and keep reading the following passage.
- 00:19
According to the passage, the "fantasy of the future" in line 10 had become a reality
- 00:23
through all of the following developments EXCEPT...what?
- 00:27
And here are the potential answers...
Full Transcript
- 00:36
When you see a word written in all caps that usually
- 00:38
means it's important--or at least somebody thinks it's important.
- 00:41
This question puts EXCEPT in all caps, hitting us over the head with the idea that we have
- 00:46
to find the thing on this list that the passage doesn't mention.
- 00:50
If only Steve Jobs had come up with a USB port that plugged directly into our brains,
- 00:53
we wouldn't have to skim through the passage again.
- 00:55
Unfortunately, he didn't, so we'll just have to go back through it and cross off the
- 00:59
answer choices we find here.
- 01:57
After careful review, we find that (B), "shifts in the workforce," is the only one that's not mentioned in the passage.
- 02:04
Just wait to see what shifts in the workforce happen when the iBrain finally does come out.
- 02:08
Creepy.
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