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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 5, Problem 4

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00:03

Shmoop alert. Unidentified flying question has been spotted...

00:08

Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?

00:11

In a working ecosystem, plants and animals blank in a self-sustaining cycle.

00:18

And here are the potential answers...

00:23

We don't need a background in ecology to figure this one out.

00:27

The context clue, "self-sustaining cycle," lets us know that we're looking for a word

00:32

that describes how plants and animals manage to live in the same place without completely

00:36

destroying each other...

00:37

Although no one seems to have had a talk with the Venus flytrap.

00:41

Both "clash" and "collide" describe things slamming into each other...

00:45

Which doesn't exactly get across the idea of peace and harmony.

00:48

"Alternate" and "exchange" are on the right track, but both words describe things

00:52

switching places rather than living together side by side.

00:56

Since to "coexist" means to live in the same place at the same time,

01:02

(D) is the correct answer.

01:04

Shmoop would like to issue a formal apology to the Flytrap Anti-Defamation League for

01:08

our prior comment.

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