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ACT Aspire English: Keeping Vocabulary Consistent with the Passage's Style 1 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
far away, rough around the edges places


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All right spyros Us rival tv again Coming at you

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a well here we go Far away rough around the

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edges Places What does that mean Well paragraph three cruising

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down there We're last years Many have produced but it

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just bribe You should live in games and challenger martin

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probability fan in nature And it's fried me And now

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they're major networks like pbs Then came the discovery These

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shows feature one or two people who are filmed in

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faraway rough around the edges places as they struggled to

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find food shelter and water with extremely limited supplies All

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right well the answer here uh you know it's not

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good as is So it was a if you've ever

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seen any of these wilderness survival shows which we would

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i recommend before embarking on a week long camping trip

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you know that they put people in places so remote

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that looks as though no human has ever been there

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before That's what the author is trying to describe here

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but the description as written is wordy and awkwardly phrased

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Far off works but difficult as in be there doesn't

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really capture the author's intentions Hard places as indeed is

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Also too vague And when you're lonely out there for

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weeks down there one remote and inhospitable like sea is

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exactly the description that the author is going for So

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that's it That's the answer you seek and the phrasing

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in vocabulary than you No match in the style of

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the passage So it should read These shows feature one

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or two people who are filmed in remote and inhospitable

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places as they struggle to find food and you together 00:01:40.479 --> [endTime] companionship or whatever it is they're looking for

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