Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
the public would not be interested in learning about traditional foods.
people would not be able to determine how a particular food was made.
consumers would lose this diversity of flavors.
Explanation for Question 28 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
28 asks, which twice, 2 most effectively supports the central point of the paragraph. 3 Okay. So in order to pick this answer, 4 we first need to identify the central point of the paragraph. 5 We're going to do that by reading through the paragraph and paraphrasing it to 6 get an idea of what it's about. 7 So let's do that. It starts up here and they say from 8 its beginning, the slow food movement had opposed the standardization 9 of tastes that comes with fast food chains. 10 For example, a McDonald's burger in Boston tastes pretty much the same 11 as a McDonald's burger in Beijing. 12 This consistency is possible because of mass production. 13 However, in contrast, slow food supporters, 14 they like to grow and prepare food based on regional traditions. 15 When produced using traditional methods, 16 goat cheese in France tastes a lot different than goat cheese in Vermont. 17 They go on to say that goats eat the plants particular 18 to the meadow that they live in, and that other environmental factors also 19 affect the cheeses taste and texture. 20 All right, now, the sentence that we're trying to work with is if all 21 foods were produced under the industrial model, 22 and remember the industrial model is what they use for fast food when everything 23 tastes the same. So essentially what's going on in this paragraph is they're 24 contrasting slow food versus fast food in particular, 25 the way that the food tastes they're saying that fast food will taste the 26 same, no m...