Answer Choices
It acknowledges that a practice favored by the author of the passage has some limitations.
It illustrates with detail the arguments made in the first two paragraphs of the passage.
It gives an overview of a problem that has not been sufficiently addressed by the experts mentioned in the passage.
It advocates for abandoning a practice for which the passage as a whole provides mostly favorable data.
Explanation for Question 11 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 11 says, what function does the third paragraph in line 23, 34 serve in 2 the passage as a whole. So let's look back into the passage at the 3 paragraph they're talking about and read it a little bit. 4 So it says, and yet public transportation in many minds is the opposite of 5 glamour, a squalid last resort, for those with one too many impaired driving charges, 6 too poor to, for insurance or to decrepit to get behind the wheel of 7 a car. So in the context of the, 8 in the larger context of the passage, you can see that says kind of 9 like a counter-argument cause this passage is advocating for the use of 10 public transportation. And this paragraph is going to be about public transportation 11 as a not so glamorous thing. So let's keep reading. 12 It says in much of north America, they're right, 13 taking transit as a depressing experience. 14 Anyone who has waited far too long on a street corner for the privilege 15 of boarding, alerting overcrowded bus or wrestled luggage onto subways and shuttles to get 16 to a big city airport knows the transit on this continent tends to be 17 underfunded. Ill maintained an ill plan, 18 given the opportunity who wouldn't drive hopping in a car, 19 almost always gets you to your destination more quickly. 20 So like we predicted it's about how public transportation, 21 especially in north America is not the best it describes as underfunded 22 L maintained an ill plan. So, 23 and then to, just to recall, it's kind of going again...