Explanation for Question 2 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question two says a main theme of the passage is what? 2 So the first thing that we can do here is kind of look at 3 the introductory paragraph that this passage that's going to set up the story to 4 tell us kind of what the story is going to center around, 5 to get an idea of maybe what a main theme would be pertaining to 6 what the story is centered around it. And then we'll talk through each of 7 the answer choices and just kind of go through process of elimination. 8 So if we look at this first paragraph here, 9 it says one night in the summer of 1985 of visiting New York, 10 I went out to see the Mets, play the Astros, and while circling the 11 stadium with my friends, looking for the gate to our seats, 12 I saw the sweet 36 years older than when I'd watched him play baseball 13 for Uppsala. 14 He wore a white shirt, striped tie, and a charcoal gray summer suit. 15 And he was still terrifically handsome. The golden hair was a shade or two 16 darker, but not any thinner, no longer was it cut short, 17 but fell rather fully over his ears. And Don knew his color and the 18 suit that fit him. So exquisitely, he seemed even taller and leaner than I 19 remembered him in the uniform of one sport or another. 20 So basically what this paragraph is doing for us is setting up the exposition 21 of the story or the setting and the characters involved and things like that. 22 Setting up the exposition of the story to be just an encounter with some 23 old athlete that this person remem...