Answer Choices
It could yield materials important to Earth’s economy.
It could raise the value of some precious metals on Earth.
It could create unanticipated technological innovations.
It could change scientists’ understanding of space resources.
Lines 18-22 (“Within . . . lanthanum”)
Lines 24-28 (“They . . . projects”)
Lines 29-30 (“In this . . . commodity”)
Lines 41-44 (“Companies . . . machinery”)
Explanation for Questions 43, 44 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1
Okay, so 43 and 44, 2 or buy one, get one free questions because they're there together. 3 So 43 is saying the author passage, 4 one indicates meaning it's in the passage indicates that space mining could have which 5 positive effect. Well, what does he talk about here, 6 right over here that we talk about the pause 7 at the possible positive effects. Um, 8 yeah. So here, we're talking about water, this paragraph, 9 we're talking about money, the economic effects, right? 10 So one positive effect is the money is metals, 11 right? And so where's the evidence for that? 12 Well, within it, it says within a few decades, these firms maybe meeting earthly 13 demands for precious metals, such as platinum and gold and blah, 14 blah, blah, blah, blah. This is evidence that you can meet. 15 You can have a positive effect on earth if you space mine in space, 16 because if you have a demand for gold on earth, 17 you can then mine it into space and Steph lines 18 through 22, 18 which would be here. 19 And so what could I do? So, 20 um, so you, I could have which positive effect it could yield materials, 21 important to earth economy. Yes. It yields gold. 22 It yields platinum that yields iron, right? 23 These are all things that are important for us economy. 24 It's not raising the value. It's not, there's no evidence that's raising the value 25 of it. It's just yielding it and just creating it. It's just, 26 it's another source of it. So that's why a, 27 is the answer. And that's why B is not the answer. And that's why 28 AA is the answer for 44, because 44, 29 this, this piece of evidence right here, 18 through 22, 30 which we just showed perfectly supports the fact that yes, 31 there are materials that could yield that are important to our economy. 32 Like gold.