Answer Choices
European countries excel at public transportation.
some public transportation systems are superior to travel by private automobile.
Americans should mimic foreign public transportation systems when possible.
much international public transportation is engineered for passengers to work while on board.
Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 14 says the central idea of the fourth paragraph in lines, 2 35 through 57 is what? 3 So let's look at the fourth paragraph they're talking about here. 4 And since they're asking us about the central idea, 5 we really want to focus in, on kind of the topic, 6 sentence, introduction, sentence to this paragraph. 7 So it's kind of two here. It says it doesn't have to be like 8 this. So that is referencing the paragraph before where it's talking about how public 9 transportation is about experience in the north American continent. 10 So it doesn't have to be like this done, right? Public transport can be 11 faster, more comfortable and cheaper than the private automobile. 12 So this is kind of just the counter to what was stated in the 13 paragraph before. And you can read through that, 14 basically all the paragraph of forcing, like I said, 15 transportation, public transportation is not that great in north 16 America. 17 So why would people want to take it if getting in a car is 18 quicker, more convenient, things like that. So we just 19 have to remember here, when we're looking through the answer choices that this is 20 going to be a general blanket statement about what this paragraph is about. 21 And we should avoid picking answers that have to do with supporting details 22 provided in this paragraph. So let's look at the answer choices here. 23 If we look at answer choice a, it says European countries Excel at public 24 transportation. So this is going to be an exa...