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SAT Reading: Sentence Completion Drill 6, Problem 8

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00:06

Which words could fill in the blanks so that the sentence below makes sense?

00:09

Because the protagonists of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are children, readers see how

00:13

blank views of race affect their perspectives at an age before blank becomes entrenched.

00:20

And here are the potential answers...

00:25

We don't have to have read Tom Sawyer to see

00:27

that the key word in this sentence is "race."

00:30

So we know that whatever word fits in the second blank has to have something to do with

00:34

racial relations.

00:36

"Reliance" and "dependence" don't have anything to do with race, and, honestly,

00:40

don't make much sense at all in this context.

00:42

We're not even going to give them the time of day.

00:46

Since "entrenched" means to set in, and not always in a good way, we know that whatever

00:51

word we're looking for needs to have a negative connotation.

00:55

Choice (A), "admiration," is therefore easy to eliminate...

01:00

Because admiration is way too positive for this sentence.

01:04

"Suspicion" seems acceptably unpleasant so (C) is a possibility...

01:11

But "prejudice," as in racism, works better with the topic at hand.

01:15

Since "conventional" means normal or accepted, at least according to society,

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(D) is the correct answer...

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But eh, what does society know?

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