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ACT Reading: Natural Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 10. Based on the tone and complexity of this passage, in which of the following contexts might you expect to see this passage?

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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by rocket scientists. It doesn't take a

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rocket scientist to figure out what these people do.

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Based on the tone and complexity of this passage, in which of the following contexts might you expect

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to see this passage?

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Sometimes this type of question can be the toughest, because it requires us to synthesize

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everything we've learned about the passage.

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We aren't afraid, though.

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We'll nix answer (D) first.

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There aren't enough mentions of Gentry Lee for this to be an autobiography about him.

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If choice (C) were true, then the passage wouldn't need to go into so much background.

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You'd have to be the slackest NASA scientist of the crew to not already know about these missions.

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We can get rid of (B) for basically the same reason as (C).

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An academic article wouldn't need to give such a broad overview...

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...and instead would be more likely to go into intense detail about a particular subject.

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Choice (A) is the way to go.

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It makes sense for the passage to have come from a newspaper...

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...since it takes the time to educate us peons about the back story of NASA's mission.

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