SAT OwlQuestion bank / Rhetorical Synthesis
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Titan is the largest moon of Saturn.
• It is the only moon in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere.
• Its surface has lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane.
• The Huygens probe landed on Titan in 2005.
The student wants to emphasize what makes Titan's atmosphere unusual. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was visited by the Huygens probe in 2005.
Titan's surface has lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane.
The Huygens probe landed on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons, in the year 2005.
Titan is the only moon in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere.
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Answer: D
The goal is about Titan's atmosphere. Choice D gives the unusual fact from the notes: Titan is the only moon known to have a thick atmosphere.
Choice B describes something unusual about Titan, but it is about the surface, not the atmosphere.
Why the other choices are wrong
- A. This identifies Titan and the probe landing but says nothing about the atmosphere.
- B. This describes Titan's surface lakes, not its atmosphere.
- C. This repeats Titan's size and the probe landing without mentioning the atmosphere.
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