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CAHSEE 8.1 Passage Drill. The passage provides the most information on the...what?
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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by the stars that kind in the sky now kind
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whose lives were invaded for public amusement like that All
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right you're in a public passage How humans constellations stars
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perspective night traveling or sky forming constellations farmer stories Since
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our ancestors a lot of people today and we're done
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the passage provides the most information on the what And
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here the potential answers All right well this type of
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question asked us to read over everything and figure out
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what the topic of the passages most hung up on
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if we get hung up on the details when we're
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sunk much like the ancient sailors who didn't know their
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start option b is the first on the chopping block
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The passage does tell us that people have been making
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up stories about constellations for thousands of years but it
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never bothers to fill us in on any of those
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tales which is kind of rude but whatever we can
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also cross up choice See we're told the constellations have
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names but the faster doesn't directly introduce us Also route
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maybe some of those hi my name is stickers would
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be nice the next time we all get together No
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thanks Answer b doesn't do the trick either At the
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very end the passage only briefly mentioned that people still
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use constellations Okay to come in handy when gps fails
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George is the right answer No contest The passage gives
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us a quick overview of all the different ways our
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ancestors used constellations The article is even titled how humans
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have used constellation throughout History Okay maybe we should have
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looked at that beforehand and saved ourselves this whole elimination 00:01:40.368 --> [endTime] process
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