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ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the main purpose of this passage?
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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 6
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Reading closely / Determining explicit meanings
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Persuasive Texts / Shifts in Perspective
- Expository Texts / Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events
- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
Transcript
- 00:03
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Review Time pause this puppy and give it a once
- 00:08
over The contrast that the author describes in the last
- 00:39
two paragraphs of the Passage is what And here the
- 00:42
potential answers all about contrast Theo Second Last Paragraph explores
Full Transcript
- 00:51
what the author calls the triumph of teen spirit both
- 00:54
in its importance and popularity and is a big deal
- 00:57
We have the Sun shmoop music read All about it
- 01:00
Way were wondering what that smell Waas The last paragraph
- 01:04
however describes the terrible toll this success eventually took on
- 01:07
Cobain Personally this one's actually pretty easy because A B
- 01:11
C and E aren't even the same ballpark Different zone
- 01:16
He is the only answer that even remotely gets across
- 01:19
the contrasting ideas of the last two paragraphs Here's hoping
- 01:23
the other answers have a better showing the next go
- 01:25
around way Miss you Kurt Oh right one
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