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August 20, 2009, 08:04 AM
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Critical Reading SAT Question
August 20th, 2009 SAT Question of the Day:
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Demographers and anthropologists have corrected the notion that European explorers in North America entered a ------- territory by showing that the land in some areas was already as densely ------- as parts of Europe.
A. fertile..settled
B. colossal..wooded
C. desolate..populated
D. valuable..exploited
E. hostile..concentrated
HINT: The word "“corrected” suggests that the word in the first blank contrasts the word in the second blank.
It is C because according to the hint, the first word has to contrast with the second word - desolate and populated are opposites.
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