Explanation for Question 28 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 28 says the main function of the 11th paragraph is to what? 2 So let's look back at lines 59 through 65, 3 and see if we can kind of identify what the purpose might be in 4 the larger context of the passage. So this paragraph says using funding from the 5 Canadian government, Davids and gambling reviewed 144 published reports describing 6 river sediment preserved in the rock record, dating from the Cambridge and to the 7 Devonian to build their case. 8 They visited 34 spots themselves in north America and Europe, 9 and they scrutinized experimental results. So basically all this paragraph is doing 10 is explaining kind of the methodology and how Davies and gambling went about 11 performing their experiment in collecting information to support their experiments. 12 So let's look at the answer choices here and see if any of those 13 match, that kind of idea. 14 So answer choice a says, describe how Davies and gambling gathered their data answer 15 choice. 16 A seemed like a pretty good answer right on the money that paragraph did. 17 Describe how they gathered data. They visited some spots, 18 they read a whole bunch of reports. So answer choice might be good here, 19 but let's look at the rest answer. Choice, answer, 20 choice B is going to be incorrect because there weren't any assertions made in 21 that paragraph. It was merely just descriptions of actions, 22 right? They read reports, 23 they visited some spots, things like that. 24 If we look at answer choice C, i...