Answer Choices
He is alarmed about countries’ increasing reliance on them.
He is unconcerned about their effect on the economy.
He is uncertain how they might affect job growth.
He is optimistic that they will spur job creation to a degree not seen since the mid-nineteenth century.
Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question 16 asks which of the following best characterizes Katz's attitude towards today's 2 digital technologies. So let's look at the lines that they give us there and 3 maybe some information surrounding those lines and see if we can get a better 4 feel for what they're asking here. So the sentence that they're referencing says 5 still cats doesn't dismiss the notion that there's something different about today's digital technologies. 6 So again, they're asking for Katz's opinion on today's 7 digital technologies. If we read through the rest of the paragraph, 8 it says that this is something that could affect even a broader range of 9 work. Keyword here would be, 10 could write that doesn't imply like actuality that's just applies like a possibility. 11 And then it goes on to say, the question is dah, 12 dah, dah. And then you have also a bunch of rhetorical questions or not 13 rhetorical questions, but just like questions that these people are asking. 14 And so it's clear to me here that there's some confusion or like ambiguity, 15 some like degree of uncertainty about how 16 this could affect a broader range of work. 17 So let's look at the answer choices and see if any of those imply 18 that degree of uncertainty that I'm seeing here or that we're seeing here. 19 So answer choice a says he's alarmed about the country's increasing reliance on them. 20 So that paragraph didn't say anything about like 21 the country's reliance on technology. 22 And there wasn't any indicat...