Explanation for Question 43 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 43 asks the main purpose of the passage is to what? 2 So we can look at two things to answer this question in the passage, 3 we can look at the introductory paragraph to see what information they're introducing 4 and what's going to be discussed in the rest of the passage. 5 And we can also look at the blurb that comes before the passage that 6 says, like the title and where the passage comes from and see if that 7 gives us any information. So we'll look at that first little blur paragraph. 8 First, it says that the title is, 9 can see monkey stir the sea and it's by the American association for the 10 advancement of science. So this is a study, 11 a question answered in a scientific journal, 12 and then you can see there. The introductory paragraph itself is kind of long, 13 but we can look at that last couple sentences to kind of see where 14 they're going with the rest of this paragraph. 15 It says, although the small swirls created by the fast turning legs of a 16 single sea monkey are not strong enough to significantly serve the seas. 17 The eddies kicked up by billions of them might do the trick to Barry 18 and others have proposed. So we have this theory and then the next sentence 19 says to test the notion he and Monica will help us also of Caltech 20 measured the tiny currents triggered by artificially induced migrations of Brian shrimp in the 21 lab. So basically what these two sentences are introducing is the idea of a 22 theory and then an experiment to t...