[Video] Q7: Which choice best describes the narrator’s view of his expedition to the north pole?

Answer Choices

  • Immoral but inevitable

  • Absurd but necessary

  • Socially beneficial but misunderstood

  • Scientifically important but hazardous

Explanation for Question 7 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question seven says which choice best describes the narrator's view of his expedition to 2 the north pole. So let's look back into the passage and see if we 3 can find some texts ovens to highlight the answer here. 4 So if we look back in the first paragraph of the passage, 5 it says rising slowly from the earth to bore me and gave me sustenance. 6 I carried helplessly toward an uninhabited and hostile, 7 or at best indifferent part of the earth littered with the bones of explorers 8 in the wrecks of ships, frozen supply caches messages, 9 scrawled with chilled fingers and hidden in Karens that no I will ever see. 10 Nobody has succeeded in this thing and many have died. 11 So this entire passage is talking about the expedition to the north pole. 12 So on his expedition, he's moving toward an uninhabited in hostile part, 13 he's passing the bones of explorers, 14 wrecked ships, frozen supplies. 15 So all of these things indicate that this expedition is really dangerous. 16 Um, and then it also says that nobody has succeeded in many, 17 have died. So nobody's done it before. He's embarking on this journey that no 18 one has succeeded on everyone's died. 19 They've lost or not everyone, but many people they've lost supplies. 20 They've scrolled messages, they've wrecked their ships, 21 all these things. So a little bit of a crazy idea, 22 right? He's just going out, 23 doing something that no one's ever done before and he could very well done. 24 So this was kind of crazy. He a...

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