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SAT Reading 2.6 Long Passages 171 Views
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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 2, Problem 6
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- 00:09
Because we know how much you love this passage,
- 00:11
we totally don't mind if you pause this video and skim it....
- 00:18
In lines 54 through 58, the narrator implies that... what?
- 00:23
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:28
So, Georgiana ran off and got hitched to Howard,
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- 00:30
then went to Nebraska instead of listening to her family criticize her decision.
- 00:35
What's implied? Not B, because...well...the sentence doesn't
- 00:38
say anything about what Howard's plans were. If (C) were right... which it definitely isn't...
- 00:43
then it would've been Georgiana's family's idea for her to ride off into the sunset with
- 00:47
Howard.
- 00:48
The excerpt says that Georgiana ran off to Nebraska to "elude," or escape, her friends
- 00:53
and family, whom she knew wouldn't be down with Howie.
- 00:56
Georgina was so busy eluding everybody that she never gave them the chance to understand.
- 01:01
Who knows? Maybe they would've loved the idea of her marrying Howard.
- 01:04
On second thought, Auntie G was probably right about that one.
- 01:07
There's no way her peeps would've liked him. Whatever the case, (E) is
- 01:10
incorrect.
- 01:11
If choice (D) were true, then Auntie G's friends and family would've given her the
- 01:15
boot for marrying Howard.
- 01:16
The passage makes it clear that she left on her own, though, so this one isn't right
- 01:21
either. Looks like choice (A) is the answer for us.
- 01:24
If Georgiana hadn't felt that facing her family would be... not-so-fun... she wouldn't have
- 01:29
had to elude anybody.
- 01:30
We wonder how she felt about this choice after she saw exactly what a Nebraska homestead
- 01:35
looked like.
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