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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 1, Problem 3

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00:03

When you shmoop upon a star...

00:06

Which words could fill in the blank so that

00:08

the sentence below makes sense?

00:10

Though astronomers once thought that there was a fixed number of stars in the universe,

00:14

we now know that the number far blank earlier estimates and continues to grow even now.

00:19

And here are the potential answers...

00:23

This sentence gives us two major clues: people no longer believe that the universe contains

00:27

a fixed number of stars, and those big balls of super-heated gas

00:32

....uh, these big balls of super-heated gas keep on multiplying like

00:36

space rabbits.

00:38

So whatever word goes into the blanks has got to get across the idea that there are

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way more stars than scientists originally thought.

00:44

"Outperforms" doesn't fit because it means that something does better than something else.

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"Expands" means that something gets bigger,

00:52

so it doesn't work in this sentence either.

00:55

If you plugged "exceeds" into this sentence,

00:57

it would mean that the number of stars has increased.

01:00

This is our number one contender so far.

01:02

(D) doesn't work because "overbears" means that something dominates something else.

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Nothing about an increase in numbers here.

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"Relinquishes" describes when somebody gives something up, so we say no to (E).

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And that brings us back to (C).

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As in, "Correctomundo."

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