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SAT Reading Passage Comparison Drill 1, Problem

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00:03

All we are saying... is give Shmoop a chance...

00:10

If need some time to check out these passages,

00:12

press pause and do your thing.

00:19

The main purpose of Passage 1 is to...what?

00:25

And here are the potential answers...

00:30

One thing that's important to note about Passage 1 is that its author is neutral on

00:35

the subject. Maybe he or she hates those evil rockers.

00:38

Or maybe the he or she has a Judas Priest tattoo on his or her...wherever.

00:44

The truth is that we don't know how the author feels...

00:48

...since the article only reports on people who thought lots of rock was bad, and doesn't

00:52

express any kind of bias one way or the other. So... we can easily eliminate choice (A),

00:57

which claims that the author is out to get Prince and other controversial musicians.

01:01

Sorry, but that just isn't the case.

01:06

(B) tries to make us think that the author is out to protect all those innocent rock

01:11

stars out there who were getting picked on by the big bad censor police.

01:16

Another swing and a miss. The passage only mentions Al Gore's wife,

01:21

Tipper, and doesn't say anything about his career. Poor Al, he never quite makes the

01:25

cut.

01:26

And neither does choice (C). Nowhere in the passage does it say anything

01:30

about where this anti-smut group got together.

01:33

We imagine it was somewhere very wholesome—like... a house made of oatmeal.

01:38

OK, that's probably a stretch. Whatever. (E) is not the correct answer.

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Since the word "palatable" means "inoffensive"—literally, something you could put on your palate, or in your mouth—

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...making something "less palatable" describes the efforts of a group that tried to convince

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America that rock music was offensive.

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Choice D is our boy.

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