Explanation for Question 50 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 50 asks, which choice best states the relationship between the two passages. 2 So let's kind of look back at these two passages and determine like the 3 main gist of what they're trying to say. And then we can talk about 4 the relationship between them. So was there a passage one if we look back 5 at that last sentence in the introductory paragraph, 6 that does the best job of introducing what the rest of the passage is 7 going to be about. It says, although there are many competing ideas to explain 8 invasion, it is possible that two of the most important are interrelated. 9 The plant species that benefit the most from high resource availability. 10 They also gain the most from escaping enemies upon moving to a new range. 11 And I have underlined there two of the most important, 12 because in the rest of the passage, basically they outline two of the most 13 important ideas to explain invasion that being the resource hypothesis 14 and the enemy release hypothesis. 15 So in this case, passage one is just talking about general scientific concepts. 16 If we look at passage two though, the first sentence or the first paragraph 17 here says a rhodium, secretarial and invasive species, 18 commonly known as pin weed has been slowly replacing the native species of rhodium, 19 texting them, or Harrisonville in north America, 20 sonorant desert biologist. Sarah Kimball conducted a series of experiments to understand 21 how Penn weed plants are overtaking Harrisonville plants....