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SAT Reading: Long Passages Drill 3, Passages

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00:08

Hey, it's your old buddy, the passage about John Muir.

00:11

Press pause if you'd like to get to know him all over again.

00:28

The phrase "fancied himself the definitive authority on the subject" serves to...what?

00:33

And here are the potential answers...

00:38

To answer this question, we'll take a peek

00:40

back at lines 35 through 36.

00:42

Hm, looks like Hutchings wasn't too happy about Muir's "newfound prominence

00:47

as a Yosemite spokesman."

00:49

We'd better call the guys from Monster Hunters, because it looks like Yosemite is being terrorized

00:54

by that green-eyed monster known as...jealousy!

00:57

Duhn, duhn, duhn!

00:59

Hutchings might have been concerned about

01:01

Yosemite, but people consumed with jealousy aren't exactly selfless.

01:05

The green-eyed monster... is a little self-involved.

01:08

Hutchings was all about Yosemite. It's this very thing that made him so jealous of Muir

01:12

in the first place.

01:13

Sawmill? Who's talking about a sawmill?

01:16

We're looking for an answer that points to these two bickering over Yosemite.

01:20

(D) is a definite no. (E) is on the right track, but it doesn't

01:23

work because there aren't really any other accounts mentioned.

01:27

These two had one big dispute that we know about, and it starts with a capital Y.

01:30

This leaves only choice (A), which explains why Hutchings

01:34

was so monstrously jealous of Muir.

01:36

Boys, boys... there's enough Yosemite to go around for everyone...

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