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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 8
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- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
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- Reading Informational Text / Determine and analyze a central idea of a text
- Reading Informational Text / Determine and analyze a central idea of a text
- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
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- 00:03
Analyzing text. It's good for the soul. No worries if you need to pause to skim the
- 00:09
passage again. Not everyone has a photographic memory.
- 00:22
The main point of the passage is to...what?
- 00:25
Here are the potential answers...
- 00:29
To figure this one out, we just need to go
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- 00:30
down the list and start eliminating.
- 00:32
(A) is easy to cross off our list, because the passage doesn't comment on the quality
- 00:38
of Nirvana's music at all.
- 00:40
Early on, the passage does mention some of the other bands from the Seattle scene...
- 00:44
However, the bulk of the article focuses on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, so (B) doesn't
- 00:51
make the cut.
- 00:54
(E) claims that the passage is all about statistics.
- 01:00
It does give us some numbers, but there's a lot more to this passage than a bunch of numbers.
- 01:05
Each remaining choice is attractive in its own special way.
- 01:08
Since the passage focuses more on how success—not music—played a role in Cobain's eventual
- 01:14
deterioration, (D) misses the ball, leaving us with (C).
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