SAT Transitions Question

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Question 1 · Hard · Reading and WritingDecember 2025 Batch 13 · Q20Transitions · 0 solved

On a chilly spring morning in a Virginia park, as sunlight crested the treetops, Kathrin Swoboda raised her Nikon D500 camera and captured an image that would win the Grand Prize in the 2019 Audubon Photography Awards: a red-winged blackbird, exhaling what appeared to be rings of smoke. the “smoke”w as actually the blackbird's breath hitting the cold morning air as the bird sang. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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Strategy

Look at how the second sentence relates to the first: does it add information, show a result, or explain something that seemed surprising? Pick the transition that matches that relationship, not just one that sounds formal or logical. If the second sentence resolves confusion from the first, use a transition that signals obvious explanation or confirmation.

Hints (open one at a time)

Hint 1

Focus on the relationship between the two sentences: the second one explains what the first sentence only seemed to show.

Hint 2

Ask yourself whether the blank should signal an example, an added fact, a result, or a clarification.

Hint 3

The first sentence creates a surprising image; the next sentence reveals what it really was. Choose the word that fits a ‘that makes sense’ explanation.

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