Explanation for Question 18 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
The question 18 says as Houston line 74, 2 Ramas nearly means what? So let's look in the passage for some context here. 3 The sentence that they're referencing referencing starts in line 73. 4 It says the job of journalists should be to give the news as raw 5 as it is without putting their slant on it. And people should be given 6 sufficient information from which we would be able to form opinions of our own. 7 So just a reminder, the word that we're looking at here is raw in 8 line 74. So journalists should be giving the news as raw as it is 9 without putting their slant on it. So in this case, 10 the idea of raw information is just information without any 11 bias. So you can also see that in the 12 following kind of segment of the sentence, 13 where they say they should be given sufficient information. 14 So just enough information so that people would be able to form their own 15 opinions. So let's look at the answer 16 choices and see which one best expresses this idea of information without 17 bias. 18 So answer choice a says, 19 unfiltered answer choice a might be a good answer choice here, 20 right? Unfiltered would be, it hasn't been touched by any kind of contaminant, 21 so it doesn't have any bias or any leaning one way or the 22 other. If we look at answer choice B, 23 it says exposed, this would give the sentence more of 24 a secret kind of vibe. 25 Like if you're exposing information, 26 that's going to come with a lot of weight and a lot of 27 opinion. Whereas t...