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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Summary. What is the main purpose of this passage?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by dinosaurs [boy reading a book on dinosaurs]
- 00:07
Raaar! there every little kids obsession at east until junior high. All right
- 00:13
check out the following passage [mumbles]
- 00:22
what's the main purpose of this passage
- 00:25
and here are the potential answers [mumbling]
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- 00:32
okay well we're hunting for the main purpose of the passage which will [man with a rifle hunting in the forest]
- 00:35
hopefully be easier than hunting for Dino fossils alright so let's take a
- 00:39
look at option A well it's indisputably true velociraptors were actually [velociratpor in the field and a larger velociraptor appears]
- 00:44
much smaller than in movies like Jurassic Park they also didn't possess
- 00:48
super advanced problem-solving skills spoiler alert too late okay option B not
- 00:55
quite what we're looking for either while the passage does state that
- 00:59
scientists have found over a dozen Raptor skeleton there's nothing that [Raptor skeletons on a conveyor belt]
- 01:03
says that this somehow makes them the best known dinos in the world scientists
- 01:08
have found many other skeletons all right moving on to option D 75 million years
- 01:14
certainly is a long time but it's just a supporting detail it's not the point of
- 01:18
the paragraph we mean the fact that grandpa's old isn't people only thing to [A grandpa sitting down laughing]
- 01:23
say about him. Which leaves us with options C this paragraph is giving us
- 01:28
a collection of basic facts about velociraptors so C it is, bonus fact
- 01:33
your parents threw away all your Dino toys the day you turn 10 seriously ask [boy playing with dinosaur figures]
- 01:38
em. We have now.
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