Explanation for Question 24 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 24 says what statement about striped cucumber beetles can most reasonably be inferred 2 from the passage. So let's look back in the passage at where these striped 3 cucumber beetles are introduced and maybe get some information about how they're relevant to 4 this passage. So we can start in line five. 5 It says, but when you advertise the pollinators, 6 you advertise in an open communication network, 7 says chemical ecologist, Ian Baldwin of the max buck Institute for chemical ecology 8 in Germany, you attract not just the good guys, 9 but also attract, but you also attract the bad guys for a Texas gourd 10 plant striped cucumber beetles are among the very bad guys. 11 They chew up pollen and pedals defecate in the flowers and transmit the dreaded 12 bacterial wilt disease and infection that can reduce an entire plant to a heap 13 of collapsed tissue in mere days. So these striped cucumber beetles are introduced as 14 kind of two things they're advertised as a part of this open 15 communication network that they're referencing here. 16 That includes all those pollinators. 17 And then they're also introduced as kind of like the bad guys when it 18 comes to Texas gourd plants and this case, 19 very bad guys, because they do all of these following things when 20 they're attracted to the gourd plants. 21 And you can see that, um, 22 the good guys that they're talking about, you can look in this sentence here. 23 The good guys that they're talking about are these honey b...