Explanation for Question 29 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
All right. Question 29 asks the last sentence of the passage serves mainly to 2 what? Um, so for this question, 3 we're going to take a look at that last sentence and see how it 4 fits into the meeting established by the author, 5 and maybe why the author would choose to wrap up with that line. 6 So taking a look at that last sentence, 7 it reads new measurements 8 of serious composition by NASA's Dawn mission, 9 for which McCord is a team member could help pin down its birthplace. 10 So this idea of pinning down its birthplace, 11 um, can I suggest that there could be a final resolution? 12 Um, there could be a final answer to this, 13 um, this mystery of kind of where series came from. 14 So looking at our answer choices, um, 15 for this question choice a says hint at a possible weakness and a claim. 16 That's not really the case. 17 Um, there's no, there's no weakness suggested by this. 18 Um, while the author does suggest that we need to pin down the final, 19 um, the, our final answer to the birthplace of series, 20 um, that doesn't suggest that the claims made earlier are weak 21 necessarily just that the question is still somewhat open so we can eliminate a 22 choice based says emphasize the critical nature of a decision. 23 Um, first of all, it's not necessarily clear what decision this is referring to. 24 Um, so that's kind of a red flag with this answer choice. 25 Um, and also this, this doesn't seem to fit. 26 There's no emphasis on how critical the resolution of t...