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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 1.3 Reading Diagnostic. The author mentions the navigational technique called "equal altitudes" in the third paragraph to ...what?
PSAT 1.4 Reading Diagnostic. In the fourth paragraph, the author checks his chronometer against the timepieces of other ships in order to...what?
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PSAT 4.3 Reading Diagnostic. The vampire bats in Passage 1 and the naked mole rats in Passage 2 share which attribute?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dooz
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your broth you by wolf packs the main reason they
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travel that way so that they're able to use the
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carpool lane Can you think of the passage here and
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were skin english You were mumbling and reading words birds
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and skin skin on skin and the passage is here
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and we're mumbling and we're checking up passage and we're
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mumbling mumbling in skimming in wordsworth all birds and get
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scanned some skin and the passage all blended blob of
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love of love Oh no this is great right Didn't
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shakespeare write this Okay and we're reading yeah and it's
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good All right we're done The vampire bats in passage
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one and the naked mole rats and passage to share
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which attributes and hear the potential answers All right helping
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you know Okay make it more rats and vampire bats
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have so much in common Where do we even begin
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Well they're both incredibly handsome They both have lovely habits
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and they're both big maroon five fans You know that
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But we should probably see what the passages have to
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say about these teo brothers from another mother there's a
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mention in the first passage of vampire bats See competing
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for food right here and immediately afterward there's something about
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them be sharing regurgitated blood in times of need Yum
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What a lovely thoughtful gesture we've got to serve that
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in our next party Unfortunately there's nothing in the second
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passage that mirrors either of those behaviors So it looks
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like the bats are alone when it comes to their
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unusual predatory and dietary behaviors right off the bat we
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can eliminate being c and we're left with just two
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options What about deep They protect their shared resource is
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from other species Swell wolves apparently do that So says
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passage to but bats and rats may go about things
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differently because there is no talk of them Protecting resource
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is from sea scavengers like dnc It appears di isn't
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quite up To snuff hopefully then a will work out
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Do both passengers make mention of both bats and rats
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helping individuals with whom they share clothes Kinship Sure do
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if anything that's the unifying theme of these two passages
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If your friend i'll gladly give you the shirt off
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their back or the blood out of their throat guts
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stuff They're a couple of b f f's if we 00:02:29.425 --> [endTime] ever saw
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