Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 14 says in the first paragraph, 2 the author concedes that his recommendations are what? 3 So let's go back and look at the ideas discussed in the first paragraph 4 we can see in the first sentence, what the main topic of the paragraph 5 is going to be about. So it says building good transit. 6 Isn't a bad idea, but it can actually backfire if the new trains and 7 buses merely clear space on highway lanes, 8 for those who would prefer to drive. So basically he's introducing the idea and 9 goes onto support it. That increasing 10 ways to reduce traffic actually increases traffic. 11 And this is bad for the environment. And then he goes on to say, 12 here, he just addresses directly. 13 These ideas starting in line 14. He says, needless to say, 14 those ideas are not popular. So if we go back 15 to the answer choices in 14, the author concedes that his recommendations are not 16 popular. 17 So the answer choice that most closely resembles that statement is going to be 18 be that they're not widely supported. 19 If you look at a costly to implement in the first paragraph, 20 it doesn't say anything about cost of his recommendation. 21 So that is incorrect for that reason. If you look at, 22 see, it says strongly opposed by experts, 23 that can be maybe a distractor answer here, 24 but it's too extreme to correspond with his statement that they're just not 25 popular. And then if you look at D it says environmentally harmful in the 26 short term, that's incorrect because of the statement about short term, 27 he says his recommendations are going to be environmentally or his 28 recommendations are to reduce environmental harm, 29 not going to be environmentally harmful in the short term. 30 So that is why D is incorrect and answer choice B not widely supported 31 is the correct answer here.