Explanation for Question 18 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 18 says the writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. 2 Should the sentence be kept or deleted? This sentence says combined that's enough energy 3 to service, approximately 431,000 homes. 4 This is coming after they said the Mackintosh power plant can produce this much 5 electricity. And so that power plant can produce this. 6 They're talking about the C a E S system. And they're showing these two 7 power plants, the only two power plants that you see. 8 Yes. And how much power they produce the same. 9 There are a few other CS projects in progress across the United States, 10 blah, blah, blah. But what this does is it seems to emphasize the importance 11 of the CAEs process. It's saying, okay, 12 here's what they can actually do. They can produce this much power that's equivalent 13 and helping the world in this way. So we can be pretty confident that 14 the sentence should be kept. 15 Now our options, the say this should be deleted because it interrupts the paragraphs 16 description of the Macintosh facility. It doesn't do that because they're not describing the 17 Macintosh facility at all. They're just talking about these two power plants, 18 Macintosh and the German plant and how much they produce. 19 So this would be wrong either way, cause it's not interrupting Matt. 20 And this has deleted because it ignores a differences in the levels of energy 21 usage in individual homes. This isn't true. 22 It doesn't do that. It says approximate...