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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 1
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- Information and Ideas / Citing textual evidence
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Reading Assessment / Rhetorical Strategies and Use of Evidence
- Synthesis / Analyzing quantitative information
Transcript
- 00:03
Smells like Shmoop spirit...
- 00:06
You'll definitely need to hit pause to read
- 00:07
this baby. Go for it; we could use the potty break.
- 00:19
The music of the 'Seattle scene' described in the passage shares all of the following
- 00:24
characteristics EXCEPT...what?
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- 00:27
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:32
To answer this question, let's bust out our
- 00:34
process of elimination skills and get ready to rumble.
- 00:39
We can knock out (A) pretty easily just by taking a look at line 13.
- 00:43
The line makes it totally clear that Seattle grunge rockers were all about grounding their
- 00:47
noisy sound with heavy bass. Lines 15-17 make things particularly clear:
- 00:52
according to this jewel of a sentence, the musicians of the Seattle scene "scorned the
- 00:56
idea of selling out and overproduced pop sensibilities"...
- 01:01
So we can go ahead and eliminate (B), (C), and (E).
- 01:04
(D) is the correct answer, since the Seattle-ites didn't require expensive recording equipment...
- 01:09
Until they got signed by a major label, anyway.
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