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PSAT 1.3 Reading Diagnostic. The author mentions the navigational technique called "equal altitudes" in the third paragraph to ...what?

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PSAT 1.2 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. As used in line 2, "current" most nearly means...what?


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by polar bears If you ever

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see one of them scratching and it could be because

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he has an arc tick check the passage Sorry but

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i'm study electrical early works just modern parliament hybridization and

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brown bears Twenty eight Sample on northern both fourteen All

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right as used in line to current most nearly means

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What and hear The potential answers are Unfortunately there isn't

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an answer choice for well informed or in the know

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so we can assume that the word current isn't in

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reference to a bunch of polar bears who get a

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newspaper every morning and watched cnn In fact if we

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read the sentence carefully it becomes clear that the word

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isn't in reference to polar bears at all But to

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the hybridization of polar bears is actually a big difference

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Okay so now the question is how did the writer

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intend to describe this hybridization I uh you know getting

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it on was he calling it see moving water Well

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that would be pretty abstract of him Moving water is

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one definition of the word current but it doesn't work

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in this instance it's not even the right part of

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speech though we consent options a gently down three Did

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he mean to describe it as be slowly developing Well

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that it makes sense Although it's not really supported by

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anything else in the paragraph There's not really Any talk

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about how long this process is taken So maybe there

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is a better choice option D sort of fits into

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the same box the hybridization could be Described as accidental

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but once again it would come a bit out of

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the blue really it sounds more like the way one

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of the polar bears might defend himself to his girlfriend

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Option A however leaves no room for doubt there's a

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huge emphasis in this passage on the idea that these

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air studies based on present day findings the first sentence

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mentions modern polar bears and it's probably not referring to

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those who decorate their homes with contemporary flourishes And the

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lassen says that the observed hybridization it is a recent

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phenomenon so because it's apparent that the writer really really

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really wants has to understand that this happened Basically yesterday

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Option a is the best choice All of this talk

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polar bear as well You know i was making us

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hungry for an eskimo pie all right that ruined our 00:02:16.553 --> [endTime] appetite Yeah no

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