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CAHSEE 6.3 Passage Drill 164 Views
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CAHSEE 6.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the main theme of the passage?
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- 00:00
Sorry then here's your smoke Does your brought to you
- 00:05
by pure genius Okay it's about fifty percent pure and
- 00:09
probably diluted with wikipedia but it'll do tricks All right
- 00:13
zel for lions ralph While though everything Great work I'm
- 00:22
sorry For me in a minute Okay Yeah we skimmed
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- 00:32
that's How It's kim All right which of the following
- 00:35
is the main theme of the passage And here the
- 00:37
potential answers Okay we're done Sometimes important clues are right
- 00:44
in the title Like with film classic snakes on a
- 00:46
plane Sometimes the title tells us all we need to
- 00:49
know All right well let's take a look at the
- 00:51
title of the essay shall we Self reliance Wow this
- 00:55
is almost like cheating Even if we didn't read the
- 00:57
passage we could get this one Right Choi si is
- 01:00
obviously wrong If we're relying on a mentor then we
- 01:03
definitely aren't relying on ourselves Sooner or later our obi
- 01:07
wan's and yoda's are gonna bite the dust and we
- 01:10
have to face the bad guys alone or become them
- 01:13
It's hard to argue with option Hey riel intelligence is
- 01:16
rare among people If you need proof sitting the mall
- 01:19
and eavesdrop on any passing conversation or just check out
- 01:22
congress so it may be true and today still doesn't
- 01:24
make the cut Humanity's general dimness is a good reason
- 01:28
to be self reliant But that's just not what This
- 01:30
essay Is all about emerson would roll in his grave
- 01:33
if we pick choice d One of the major points
- 01:35
in this essay is that society makes it really hard
- 01:38
to be self reliant In paragraph five he says self
- 01:43
reliance is its meaning societies A version Well this leaves
- 01:47
us with choice b which correctly sums emerson's idea that
- 01:51
in order to be self reliant we have to listen
- 01:53
to our inner voices Unless our inner voices are telling
- 01:56
us to rely on others so well then it gets 00:01:58.083 --> [endTime] confused Good
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