[Video] Q35: The writer wants to add a supporting detail to indicate that the story was widely reported. which choice best accomplishes this goal?

Explanation for Question 35 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

35 says the writer wants to add a supporting detail to indicate 2 that the story was widely reported, which choice best accomplishes this 3 goal. Well, the goal is to add a supporting 4 detail to indicate that the story was widely reported. 5 So we want to somehow convey that the story was widely reported. 6 The story that they're talking about, we have to read a little bit or 7 skim to get some context in the sentence before 35. 8 It says that the next day, 9 a front page headline in the New York times declared radio listeners and panic 10 taking war drama as fact. So this right here, 11 that's the story that is going to be widely reported. 12 So we need to find a way to get that message across. 13 So let's look through all of our answer choices, a no change. 14 This one says the times article claimed that people had fled their homes and 15 that police stations had been swamped with calls. 16 All of that sentence really does, is explain what is going 17 on in the story. It doesn't at all. 18 Talk about how widely reported the story was. 19 So I'm going to say, it's not a no change. 20 Now B says that other newspapers also ran stories claiming that the broadcast has 21 incited mass hysteria. So the fact that the broadcast 22 had incited mass hysteria, that's the story. 23 Remember the story was that radio listeners are in panic. 24 That that means that the broadcast had incited mass hysteria. 25 So that checks off our story. And the fact that it says that other 26 newspapers ...