Explanation for Question 12 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 12 says, according to the passage, what expectation do traditional authorities now face? 2 So since this question starts off with the phrase, according to the passage, 3 we know that the answer is going to come pretty directly from text evidence. 4 So the evidence we find to answer this question comes 5 starting in line 36. It said the demand has been for all authority 6 to make explicit the frames of value, 7 which determine their decisions. So the reason we know this is the evidence we're 8 supposed to be looking at is because it's talking about the demand placed on 9 authority. And if we scroll back to the question really fast, 10 we can see that the question's asking about asking 11 us about the expectation for now, 12 for authorities now. So demand, expectation, 13 same kind of thing. So if we look back at what it says in 14 the passage, we can kind of determine what this is saying before we look 15 at the answer choices. 16 And so it's saying the demand has been to make explicit the frames of 17 values, which determine their decisions. So even if you don't necessarily understand 18 what the frames of value mean here, 19 basically, all this is saying is that the demand has been for all authority 20 to make explicit, explicit, 21 that which determines their decision. So explicit means clear. 22 So people just want them to be clear about how they're making their decisions. 23 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one best matches that 24 idea. So answe...