SAT Example (Short Reading Comprehension)
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CLI 아카데미
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2013-03-11 15:08
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Refer to the following passage.
Every morning I turn first to the sports section of the newspaper, but not for the reasons you might imagine. I am not an athlete, and I follow professional and collage sport indifferently at best. what quickens my pulse is not the tightness of a pennant race or a new record in th butterfly, but rather the language of sports writing. Where else can you find such a veritable lexicon of vivid verbs? Stomp, crush, rob, cream, nip, and vaporize are among my favorites.
The euphemisms of political reporting and the dry objectivity of the finance and obituary sections are not for the sports writer, whose lifeblood is spectacle and hyperbole.
Q> The author states that he turns "first to the sports section of the newspaper"(lines 1-2) because it
(A) contains colorful writing
(B) focuses on interesting personality profiles of athletes
(C) functions as a welcome escape from articles on politics and finance
(D) offers reports about the author's two favorite pastimes, baseball and swimming
(E) uses many interviews and quotations
A> (A)