SAT English Practice Question
The author of the passage is most interested in how the people of the past lived their lives. The author is not interested in trying to recreate the world as it was, nor does the author want to present a simple story of survival. The author is seeking to explore the complexities of human experience. The author shows that even the people of the past were not simple.
- A.explain the ways in which the people of the past were more complex than we might think.
- B.provide a guide to the reader on how to appreciate the past.
- C.describe the difficulties that people faced in the past.
- D.compare the lives of people in the past to the lives of people today.
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