SAT Reading Drill 1.8 Citing textual evidence
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was eight few simple meals okay and you've got a lines there we gave him to
you right there for free on the screen so here we go it's the right answer
yeah it's see Thoreau is giving an example of how one may live simply if [cookies baking, forest scape]
he's anything like the honest guy he claims to be we're guessing he followed [man in woods]
his own advice and ate fewer meals himself well ants at a picnic can eat
pretty well but throw things their lives are too busy they might get a lot of [picnic]
exercise but Thoreau doesn't want to model his life on them and he certainly [man with an ant head]
doesn't suggest he wants an ant diet keeping the things you have to worry
about down to the number you can count on your fingers doesn't mean you have to [text on screen]
eat simply what if one of the ten things you do every day is mcduck low hollj all
right so get rid of be unless Thoreau learned how to eat iron the cone about
the railroads well certainly refers to commerce rather than diet so yeah the
answer is C and we're sticking to proportion there and it's a good 20th
century fiction work