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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 5. Death is primarily characterized as what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 3. How is Burne's view of pacifism best characterized in lines 57 through 67?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
SAT Reading 6.8 Sentence Completion 170 Views
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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 6, Problem 8
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- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Vocabulary / Determine meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
- Synthesis / Analyzing quantitative information
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- 00:06
Which words could fill in the blanks so that the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:09
Because the protagonists of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are children, readers see how
- 00:13
blank views of race affect their perspectives at an age before blank becomes entrenched.
- 00:20
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:25
We don't have to have read Tom Sawyer to see
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- 00:27
that the key word in this sentence is "race."
- 00:30
So we know that whatever word fits in the second blank has to have something to do with
- 00:34
racial relations.
- 00:36
"Reliance" and "dependence" don't have anything to do with race, and, honestly,
- 00:40
don't make much sense at all in this context.
- 00:42
We're not even going to give them the time of day.
- 00:46
Since "entrenched" means to set in, and not always in a good way, we know that whatever
- 00:51
word we're looking for needs to have a negative connotation.
- 00:55
Choice (A), "admiration," is therefore easy to eliminate...
- 01:00
Because admiration is way too positive for this sentence.
- 01:04
"Suspicion" seems acceptably unpleasant so (C) is a possibility...
- 01:11
But "prejudice," as in racism, works better with the topic at hand.
- 01:15
Since "conventional" means normal or accepted, at least according to society,
- 01:20
(D) is the correct answer...
- 01:27
But eh, what does society know?
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