Explanation for Question 18 From the Reading Section on the 2018 March Sat
Hey guys. So question 18 asks us the author uses the terms, 2 athletic cockroaches, Roach spectators, 3 and cockroach athletes in the last paragraph of the passage, 4 most likely to blank. So the first thing that we should probably do when 5 it says last paragraph or the passage is, 6 you know, just go back and reread that paragraph, 7 which should be right here. 8 Now this last paragraph starts with a and it goes down to a 9 complex, and I'm not going to read this in full, 10 but if you skim through it real quick, you see that it's talking about 11 this team of researchers, having them do these, 12 having the cockroaches, do these athletic tasks. 13 It says that this person avoided experimenting with humans at first, 14 choosing to observe the behavior of cockroaches instead, 15 excuse me, let me shift that microphone. Um, 16 and that they were having similar reactions to what they were expecting 17 from humans and then drawing comparisons to how these results worked with humans in 18 this chart that comes after the fat. 19 So it seems like, 20 uh, what we're doing here is drawing a connection between the cockroaches and the 21 human beings, using these sorts of languages and setting these roaches up in a 22 very human environment. They weren't expect to actually put a cockroach in. 23 Um, and we can just take a look at our answer choices and see 24 which one best fits with that option. ACE has called attention to the similarity 25 of the two experiments. The scribe isn't s...