Explanation for Question 3 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
The first two or three says the author uses the image of an engineer 2 at sea in lines, 23 through 28. 3 Most likely to what? So let's look in the passage for some context here. 4 If we read the lines that they're referencing, 5 it says grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent in smudged Nawab 6 tended the household machinery, the air conditioners, 7 water heaters, refrigerators, and water pumps like an engineer tending the boilers on a 8 founding steamer in Atlantic Gale. 9 So you can kind of get from these lines that he's doing a 10 lot of work, right? If he's tending all of the household machinery by himself, 11 if he's tending the air conditioners, 12 the water heaters, the refrigerators and the water pumps, 13 that's a lot of hard work for one person to do by themselves. 14 You can also get that idea from the fact that his glasses are bent 15 and smudge it's normal, 16 or like it occurs frequently in literature where being dirty, 17 bent and smudged is associated with doing hard work, 18 right? If you're doing the hard work, 19 you're going to be so much stuff a bit. 20 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one best matches the 21 idea of just that he's doing hard work. 22 So answer choice a says to suggest that Nawab often 23 dreams of having a more exciting profession. This is going to be incorrect because 24 it's not giving us any information about what Nawab thinks of his 25 career. It's just giving us information about what his career is and in 26 the...