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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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Finding Evidence for the Slippery Rover 190 Views
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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
Full Transcript
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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
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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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