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PSAT 1.16 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.6 Reading Narrative Walkthrough

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by traction If you're freaking out

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about not having enough of it you really just need

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to get a grip Your passage and i saw his

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curiosity money drummer Come on get to the other side

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amount Charming curiosity veracity All right Which choice provides the

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best evidence for the answer to the previous question huh

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And here the potential answers All right Well it's a

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bunch of lines here Alright a two parter here's hoping

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the sequel lives up to the original We're looking to

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speak to cruise control All right so what was the

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original Well let's get ourselves a refresher Oh right So

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we were trying to figure out what type of terrain

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the curiosity handles best And we determined that rocky ground

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was the correct answer Apparently the curiosity is not much

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of an ice skater Now our mission if we choose

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to accept it is to find the lines from the

01:00

passage that best support That finding shouldn't be too much

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of a head scratcher So let's look over the answer

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choices and see what they have to offer Right option

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Eight points as tow lines three through for the drive

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of about seventy two feet up slopes as steep as

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twenty one degrees broad curiosity close to a target area

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where two distinctive types of bedrock meat all right well

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the word rock is in there that's a good sign

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Unfortunately while it tells us that the curiosity did in

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fact hangout in iraqi area it doesn't really tell us

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how it did So Not much evidence here to support

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the idea that it's at home on a rocky road

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But what about b lines Four to six there over

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science team wants to examine an outcrop that contains the

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contact between the pale rock unit the mission analyzed lower

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on mount sharp and a darker bedded rock unit that

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the mission has not yet examined up close All right

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well yeah same issue We're really only told what the

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science team wants Well great but we're not santa claus

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or the science teams Uncle charlie who always comes bearing

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gifts What they want is irrelevant We're still looking for

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a part of the passengers that backs up our assertion

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Well see suggests line eleven twelve We knew that polly

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Donald sand ripples have caused curiosity A lot of drive

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slip in the past Got it sand ripples that but

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knowing where the curiosity has trouble isn't going to get

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us anywhere So we'll slip right past this one And

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ah here it is Option dealings twelve to fourteen but

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there appeared to be terrain with rocky or more consolidated

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characteristics directly adjacent to these ripples So we drove around

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the sand ripples onto what we expected to be firmer

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terrain that would give curiosity better traction Well we've got

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a mention of the rocky terrain and we're told that

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gives the curiosity better traction It couldn't spell it out

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any clearer option d it is okay so speed too

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might have been a disappointment but we think we're already 00:02:50.33 --> [endTime] for speed Three runaway wheelchair Yeah hey

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