Explanation for Question 25 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 25 says the author indicates that it seems initially plausible that Texas gourd 2 plants could attract more pollinators if they did what? 3 So if we're looking here for something that the author is indicating, 4 it's probably going to come pretty directly from text evidence. 5 So let's look into the passage. 6 Remember we're looking for something that the author indicates seems initially plausible. 7 So if we look back starting in line 26, 8 it says intuition suggests that more of that aroma should be even more appealing 9 to bees. We have this assumption that a really fragrant flower is going to 10 attract a lot of pollinators. So this is going to give us insight into 11 what the, um, 12 scientists here think is going to be initially plausible, 13 right? This is kind of the hypothesis that they're basing their experiment on. 14 So that is again, that really fragrant flowers is going to attract 15 more pollinators. 16 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one might match that. 17 So answer choice a says, 18 Texas scored plans could attract more pollinators if they did not have aromatic flowers. 19 So that is completely contradictory to what we just read, 20 right? They said more aroma means more pollinators. 21 So answer choice a would be the opposite. 22 Not going to be incorrect. If we look at answer choice B, 23 it says targeted insects other than bees. 24 So in this case, 25 they're trying to get rid of the stripes, 26 cucumber beetles. They're trying...