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SAT Cross-Text Connections Question

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Question 1 · Easy · Reading and WritingNovember 2024 Batch 1 · Q6Cross-Text Connections · 0 solved

Text 1 For thousands of years, O'odham farmers in the Sonoran desert of the southwestern US and northern Mexico have cultivated elderberries and chia seeds, sometimes planting these species together so that the elderberry bushes provide shade for chia flowers. Doing so helps protect chia flowers from the harshest heat and light and thereby helps prevent soil moisture from evaporating. Text 2 Chia flowers are well adapted to growing in the desert but grow best when shaded. Inspired by O'odham farmers, who often strategically plant chia flowers in the shade of sun-hardy species like elderberry bushes for protection from the sun and heat, Gary Nabhan and colleagues planted chia flowers in the shade of solar panels in the Sonoran desert and found that the plants grew well, suggesting to Nabhan and colleagues that the panels provide a benefit similar to that provided by elderberry bushes. Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?

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The trap here

Cross-Text Connections: answering from one text — The question asks how the second author would respond to the first. Choices grounded in only one text are the trap.