Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 17 says it can reasonably be inferred that the author of passage two 2 would characterize tax money spent on road maintenance as providing benefits that are 3 what, so let's see how the author of passage to characterize is just 4 money spent on tax benefits. In general, we can see kind of the first 5 characterization of this starting in line 54. 6 It says the benefits we get from paying our taxes are usually not immediate 7 and they are often not particularly tangible either. 8 So the first two kinds of characterizations we have here are not immediate 9 and not particularly tangible. 10 Let's keep reading and see what else they have to say. 11 It says these benefits frequently take the form, 12 not of the presence of something, but of the absence of something. 13 So there's our third characterization, 14 the form that they take the form of the absence of something. 15 And then if we look at this last reference, 16 it says, in other words, often when people in government are doing their job, 17 right? Nothing, nothing happens, 18 no wonder, no one notices. So just kind of going along with this form 19 of being the absence of something, that's kind of describing the result 20 of that. So let's see which answer choice 21 might best convey all of these components that we've talked about. 22 So answer choice a says that it's easier to understand than most of the 23 benefits taxes provide. In this case, 24 this is going to be incorrect. Remember those three characterizatio...