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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Meanings 1. Choose the words that would give the sentence an "insecure" or a "confident" tone.
SAT Reading: Inferring Information about Hearing in a Scientific Passage 3 Views
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This SAT Reading video has you inferring something in the first paragraph. Such life skills!
Transcript
- 00:02
okay here we go three of eleven which of the following can be inferred about
- 00:08
hearing from the first paragraph [text on screen]
- 00:12
well the passage explains the vital importance of hearing by comparing it to
- 00:17
other traits like sight in vocalization it points out that hearing continues
- 00:22
during sleep and while some species lose sight through evolution because while
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- 00:26
they just don't need it they never lose hearing because it's so darn important
- 00:30
the passage points out the many uses of hearing saying that the alerting sense
- 00:35
is vital it says it right there it doesn't say that's the primary role
- 00:39
of hearing those so yeah get rid of a the first line of the passage references
- 00:43
noise impacts on wildlife right there as a matter of concern so we can't infer [writing on chalkboard]
- 00:48
that their hearing is unaffected the passage also says in paragraph 2 that
- 00:53
hearing does play a role in territory and mate selection in D there and so
- 00:58
we're just saying you got a swipe right [bird using cell phone]
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