Answer Choices
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many of the improvements to fruit quality they have discovered so far have required trade-offs in other properties of the fruit.
for now many fruit sellers must weigh the relative values of aroma, color, and freshness when deciding whether to use 1-MCP.
it must be acknowledged that 1-MCP, despite some inadequacies, has enabled the fruit industry to ship and store fruit in ways that were impossible before.
Explanation for Question 33 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Now question number 33 says that the writer wants a conclusion that conveys how 2 the shortcomings of one MCP presented in the passage affect the actions 3 of people in the fruit industry. Right? So we need to talk about the 4 actions of people in the fruit industry. And we need to talk about the 5 shortcomings of N of one MCP. 6 So let's look at a, it says the problem may be that consumers are 7 overly concerned with superficial qualities. 8 Um, and first off, we don't see anything about one MCP. 9 And here we also see that we're focused on consumers, 10 not on people of the fruit industry, right? 11 That would be probably employees in the fruit industry or people that buy the 12 fruit. So AI is pretty off topic. 13 It's, doesn't talk about either of the two things that we want to see 14 now B says many of the improvements in fruit quality discovered so far have 15 required trade-offs and other properties of the fruit. 16 Again, we don't see anything about one MCP in here, 17 and we also don't see anything about the people, 18 right? The actions of the people. It just talks about, 19 you know, tradeoffs generally. And we don't know if that's referring to an action 20 or if that's just the general statement. And so B is also pretty off 21 topic. Now, see, you says for now many fruit sellers, 22 right? So there's the people in the fruit industry, 23 fruit sellers must weigh the relative values. 24 So there's their action. They have to weigh some values, 25 um, when deciding wh...