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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 3, Problem 3

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

00:08

And on our text...not our singing. We know we suck.

00:11

We know you can't get enough of this passage.

00:13

Press pause and have some more...

00:34

According to the information in lines 14 through 20, the accident that Muir suffered while

00:38

working in a factory...did what?

00:41

And here are the potential answers...

00:47

We can find the answer to this question without

00:49

breaking a sweat.

00:50

All we have to do is go back and read the lines it's talking about, then see which

00:53

answer matches.

00:54

Looks like the key phrase here is "a world unaltered by man or machine."

00:59

There's absolutely nothing in the line that indicates that Muir was permanently incapacitated

01:04

by the accident.

01:05

It'd be kind of hard for him to hike all over Yosemite if this were true.

01:09

(A) is easy to bump from consideration. Unless the factory where Muir worked was run

01:15

by evil cows... which we highly doubt...(C) isn't even worth our time.

01:19

Muir's battle against livestock was connected with the way they affected natural ecosystems...

01:24

and had nothing to do with his factory injury. The passage does make it clear that Muir moved

01:29

from the old homestead to start working at the infamous factory...

01:33

But since this occurred after he left, it couldn't have caused him to leave in the

01:36

first place.

01:37

(D) can't be right. While being in the hospital might allow a

01:40

person some solid writing time...

01:42

The article says that Muir didn't do his nature writing thing until later in his career.

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...which takes (E) off of our list.

01:50

Really, no answer choice but (B) has anything to do with the lines in question.

01:54

The excerpt makes it uber-clear that Muir's factory accident turned him on to nature.

02:00

All those other answers ought to be sentenced to seven years of hard labor for wasting our time.

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