Explanation for Question 4 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question four says in the passage, the main contrast that John Berkson draws between 2 himself and his neighbors is that his neighbors are what? 3 So let's look back in the passage and see where John Berkson makes a 4 comparison between himself and his neighbors. And you can see that this comparison starts 5 in line 20. It says their neighbors certainly knew even less about farming than 6 he did. Many of them had never worked on a farm until they took 7 up their homesteads. They had been handworkers at home tailors, 8 locksmiths, joiner, cigar makers, et cetera. 9 Berkson himself, how to work in a shipyard. 10 So we can see here that the direct comparison that he makes is that 11 their neighbors certainly knew even less about farming than heated. 12 So that very explicitly compares himself to his neighbors 13 and their knowledge of farming. So let's see if that is an answer choice 14 for question four, and we can see that 15 it is with answer choice B that they're less skilled than he is at 16 the occupation they all have in common. 17 Right? If there's, if he's saying that he is smarter and has more knowledge 18 about farming than his neighbors, he's saying that he is probably better at 19 farming than his neighbor. So his neighbors would be less skilled than him, 20 but let's talk about the other answer choices here. 21 So answer choice a says that his neighbors had previously worked in urban areas 22 while he had always worked in rural ones, answer choice a is going to 23 ...