AP English Language and Composition 5.9 Passage Drill

we're done which best describes the theme of the second

paragraph and here your potential answers thinking thinking way well

we'd better refresh ourselves on the themes of the second

paragraph before we get into this one and you know

that paragraph is pretty dense definitely not the most refreshing

refresher we've ever had right here right Okay so unfortunately

options angel seem to have no idea what the paragraph

is saying Nowhere does the paragraph mention taking risks as

a claims and it never says that material success is

lead people down the road to immorality As c tells

us rich people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief

We can eliminate choice b as well The paragraph doesn't

say that not pursuing philosophical goals is a good way

to achieve that I wish that were true then every

slacker on earth and be like what the paragraph does

say is that philosophies that doesn't impose its own ideas

of right and wrong we'll end up finding higher truth

option is getting there but it doesn't quite make it

the speaker tells us that both religion and science acknowledge

the limits of human power so that means that we

shouldn't think too much of ourselves but we do have

some control over our lives Well choice is the best

answer because it's the only one that captures the essence

of the passage it's basically trying to say that we're

not going to find truth by getting all cocky and

assuming we've got universe figured out then trying to make

our laws of morality fit into that neat tidy little

box we've built for ourselves Just look at how drastically

popular views change from one century to the next on

civil rights acceptable types of public behavior religious freedoms and

so on It's easy to be short sighted and pretend

that our generation is the one that's got it all

figured out but odds are good that well we've still

got some figuring to do oh yeah it's really all

about owning up to our own shortcomings and admitting we

don't know everything only then can we start to approach

something even remotely resembling the truth Hopefully we'll get there 00:02:31.22 --> [endTime] before the robots take over