Answer Choices
enables the plant to identify the species of its prey.
conserves the plant’s calcium reserves.
safeguards the plant’s energy supply.
prevents the plant from closing before capturing its prey.
Lines 3-7 (“Closing . . . time”)
Lines 7-11 (“The large . . . across the trap”)
Lines 11-14 (“If the . . . action”)
Lines 16-18 (“First . . . hairs”)
Explanation for Questions 43, 44 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay, so we're going to do lines. Uh, number is 43 and 44 together, 2 since it's a buy one, get one free question. So let's read the stem 3 of 43. It says based on the passage, 4 meaning obviously we're going to find evidence that is located in the passage, 5 a significant advantage, and it has to be significant. 6 So significant advantage of the Venus fly traps requirement for multiple triggers are two 7 triggers, right? What is the advantage of it? We don't really know yet. 8 Let's see the evidence can only be found in lines three to 18. 9 So that's a very, very small amount of space. 10 So let's just realize three through 18 again, 11 and see if there is a sentence that talks about why two triggers is 12 beneficial. So sentence three starts here 13 in 18 and 15, 16, 17, 18 here. 14 Okay. So cause this track requires a huge expense 15 of energy and reopening the trap can take several hours. 16 Okay. So we already know that, um, 17 the fact that like it requires two hairs is important because it's gonna be 18 spending a lot of energy and a lot of time closing its chat. 19 So it doesn't want to just close it all the time. Right. Um, 20 so Diana only wants to spring close when it's sure that the doddle insect 21 visiting it surfaces large enough to be worth its time. 22 So time and energy, the large black hairs on their lobes. 23 So this could be maybe a piece of evidence. We'll see, um, 24 the large black hairs on their lobes. I I'm kind of skeptical that this 25 is the evide...