Explanation for Question 10 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 10 asks what situation is most similar to that described in line 66 2 through 75. So let's look at these lines and see what situation they're talking 3 about. We can read through it. It says in his daughter, 4 John Burkes, and recognize the strength of will in the simplest direct way of 5 thinking things out that had characterized his father in better days, 6 he would much, rather of course, have seen this likeness in one of his 7 sons, but it was not a question of choice as you lay there day 8 after day, he had to accept the situation as it was, 9 and to be thankful that there was one among his children to whom he 10 couldn't trust the future of his family and the possibilities of his hard won 11 land. So generally speaking, 12 this situation can be characterized as someone who needs someone 13 to fill some role and the person who ends up filling that role is 14 not going to be the person that he expected or that he or she 15 expected or wanted to fill that role, but is capable of filling that role. 16 Nonetheless. So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one best 17 matches that we can start with answer choice. A, 18 it says a teacher sees her female students outperforming her male students and she 19 chastises the males for not working harder. So in this case of answer choice 20 a were to resemble the situation given in the passage, 21 the situation in the given passage would have to have some sort of the 22 father chastising. The sons were not being...