AP English Language and Composition 5.9 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 5.9 Passage Drill. Which best describes the theme of the second paragraph?
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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