Explanation for Question 31 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 31 says, according to the passage, 2 Theisen Adler's research offers an answer to which of the following questions. 3 So since this question starts with, according to the passage, 4 we know the answer is going to come pretty directly from text evidence. 5 And so your first thought might be to be, to look in the passage 6 where they directly talk about the problem that they're addressing with their experiment. 7 And so that says in one recent study, 8 Nina Theiss and Lynn Adler took on the specific problem of the Texas court, 9 how to attract enough pollinators, but not too many beetles. 10 In this case, you can look back at the answer choices and none of 11 them are going to really match this. 12 So there's two things that we can look at here. 13 We can look at what they're saying in the findings of their study, 14 and we can look at how this problem was kind of introduced. 15 So let's look at that second part first, we can see that they're 16 talking about the fragrance of these Gord vines and how the fragrance that attracts 17 the pollinators. So the good guys, the ones that are helping them to grow 18 and spread also attracts the bad guys. 19 So the striped cucumber beetles specifically that chew them up 20 and coupon them and transmit disease to them. 21 So talking about this fragrance, 22 being attractor for good animals, 23 as well as bad animals. And then you can also see, 24 and kind of the results of the experiment. 25 They say, Theiss thinks the bees were r...