SAT Reading Passage question level 5

YZamyatin
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:18:48 +0000

(E) does not have to be wrong, it just has to not be the best answer. It might be true, but it is not likely “the most likely praise…” There is nothing in the text that supports it directly. When it comes to these passages, several answer choices will be true (or could be true) without directly answering the question. That is one of the ways in which the college board turns a reading test into a logic test. It gives plausible answer choices that are wrong. Answers must always be directly supportable by the text.

In the first passage, the European translators…

"… wanted to prove that the vernacular, the language of their contemporaries (modern English), was as capable of a great poem as the ancient language in which the original
poem was composed."

points directly to choice (A)

“Its skillful display of the beauties of modern English”

I don’t think you can do this in a direct fashion with any of the other answer choices.