Answer Choices
They create an optimistic tone that makes clear the authors are hopeful about the effects of their research on colony collapse disorder.
They create a dubious tone that makes clear the authors do not have confidence in the usefulness of the research described.
They create a tentative tone that makes clear the authors suspect but do not know that their hypothesis is correct.
They create a critical tone that makes clear the authors are skeptical of claims that pyrethrums are inherent in mono-crops.
Explanation for Question 42 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 42 says, how do the words can may and could in the third 2 paragraph lines, 19 through 41, help establish the tone of the paragraph. 3 So if we look back at this paragraph, it's relatively long, 4 so we're not going to read all the way through it, but if you 5 want to pause here and read through the paragraph so that you might understand 6 some of the stuff that I'm about to talk about, but basically what this 7 paragraph is doing is proposing an idea that they think might be responsible 8 for the thing that they're researching or could have a potential effect in they're 9 outlining that potential effects. So they're saying big colonies are susceptible to mite infestation, 10 which can become fatal either directly or due to secondary infection. 11 The secondary can be viral, bacterial and fungal or fungal, 12 and a may be due to one or more passive pathogens. 13 And then it's saying the bees may seek out or avoid peer thrum containing 14 plants, and the higher doses could be potentially toxic to them. 15 So it's very much conveying this idea of just 16 being an idea and not being proven. So this is an idea that they're 17 putting forth. Maybe I have a hypothesis, 18 but you can also see in the next paragraph on the next 19 page outlines an idea that, 20 or an experiment that could be used to prove this idea. 21 It says this hypothesis can best be tested by a trial. 22 And then it goes on to describe that. So this reference here referring 23 to the last paragraph as a...