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SAT Reading Sentence Completion Drill 2, Problem 5

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Here's your latest question from Shmoop Central...

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

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As a blank of the United States, New York City features a diverse variety of cultures

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and classes in close blank.

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Here are the potential answers.

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For the first blank we're looking for a word that describes how New York relates with

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the rest of the U.S.A.

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Let's start with the first blank and see what it can help us with.

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(B) doesn't really work, because New York is a gigantic city, made up of lots of communities.

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(C) feels awkward to us, too. We wouldn't really call New York a "society of America."

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It just sounds weird.

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Okay, the rest of these first blank options look somewhat plausible, so we'll move on

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to blank number two.

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(D) doesn't work, because nobody would say "in close mileage."

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(E) doesn't sound right either. Yeah, everybody's really packed in there in NYC, but we wouldn't

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say "in close blocks."

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All right, (A) is looking pretty good to us right now.

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"Close proximity" is a phrase we hear all the time, so blank number two checks out.

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The first blank is good too, because a "microcosm" is a smaller representation of a larger whole.

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New York is packed with diverse cultures just as America is on a larger scale, so the answer

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is (A).

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(A) for "All right already. Give Lady Liberty a break."

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