Answer Choices
has come to have more practical influence in recent years.
has become a celebrated feature of English public life.
includes all of the richest and most powerful men in England.
has become less exclusionary in its membership in recent years.
Lines 12-17 (“There . . . money”)
Lines 17-19 (“It . . . desert”)
Lines 23-24 (“For . . . ourselves”)
Lines 30-34 (“We . . . pulpit”)
Explanation for Questions 36, 37 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1
Okay, so we're going to do numbers 36 and 37 together. 2 Um, just because it's a buy one, get one free question. 3 So let's read this first, the stem, 4 then we're going to go down here. We're going to answer, um, 5 37 first find the evidence first, 6 and then we're going to answer 36. So what is it about the procession? 7 How does she describe the procession in the passage? Just from my remembering of 8 the passage, we learned the procession of educated men ends up becoming more 9 inclusive for women, right? Like women used to be able to only look at 10 photographs of this procession or only look at it from a distance. 11 But we actually learned in the passage that women are now joining this procession, 12 right. That's what the author describes in this passage. 13 And so let's find that line where he talks about that and it's over 14 here. 15 Right. But now for the past 20 years or so, 16 um, it is no longer a site merely or a photograph scrawled upon the 17 walls at a time for their trapezing along the end of the procession, 18 we go ourselves. So that highlighted line right there, 19 the part where it says we go ourselves is, 20 is basically the line that's talking about how women have now been added to 21 this procession no longer do we just watch from a distance, 22 no longer do we just sit at home and raise the children and cook 23 the meals and clean the house right now, 24 we are the ones that can also get educated that can also join this 25 procession that can also ...