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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 1


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00:03

Smells like Shmoop spirit...

00:06

You'll definitely need to hit pause to read

00:07

this baby. Go for it; we could use the potty break.

00:19

The music of the 'Seattle scene' described in the passage shares all of the following

00:24

characteristics EXCEPT...what?

00:27

And here are the potential answers...

00:32

To answer this question, let's bust out our

00:34

process of elimination skills and get ready to rumble.

00:39

We can knock out (A) pretty easily just by taking a look at line 13.

00:43

The line makes it totally clear that Seattle grunge rockers were all about grounding their

00:47

noisy sound with heavy bass. Lines 15-17 make things particularly clear:

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according to this jewel of a sentence, the musicians of the Seattle scene "scorned the

00:56

idea of selling out and overproduced pop sensibilities"...

01:01

So we can go ahead and eliminate (B), (C), and (E).

01:04

(D) is the correct answer, since the Seattle-ites didn't require expensive recording equipment...

01:09

Until they got signed by a major label, anyway.

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