Answer Choices
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but evidence does suggest that reports of panic have been overblown.
yet Pooley and Socolow maintain that the newspaper industry intentionally distorted the story.
making it difficult to determine what really happened in 1938.
Explanation for Question 40 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
40 says which choice best establishes the main idea of the paragraph. 2 Okay. So to do this, we have to read through the paragraph and paraphrasing 3 really helps get an idea in our heads of what the main idea 4 is. Then from there, it will be easier to figure out what should go 5 in this underlined portion. So let's start by reading through and paraphrasing. 6 I'm going to ignore the underlined part for now because we're going to fill 7 it in later. So it says proof of ulterior motives is scarce. 8 For instance, these ratings indicate that only 2% of households 9 actually listen to the broadcast pulley. 10 And Socolow also question how valid this little report is. 11 That was based on a survey six weeks after the broadcast, 12 just because some people found the broadcast unsettling. 13 That doesn't mean that they actually believed it and were genuinely afraid of it. 14 According to this report, 1 million people said they were frightened 15 by the broadcast. On the other hand, 16 though, the ratings actually reveal that much less than a million 17 people had actually been listening to the broadcast and 18 furthermore Pooley. And Socolow note that this survey mixed 19 up being frightened, disturbed, 20 or excited with actual panic. 21 Okay. So it sounds like what's going on in this paragraph is they're talking 22 about how there seemed to be this widespread panic over the broadcast, 23 right? But after looking at some data, 24 they're saying maybe the panic wasn't as bad as we...