Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Question #1161
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Identify the logical relationship between 'notoriously arduous' in sentence 2 and 'recently engineered' in sentence 3: it is a contrast/concession.
Elimination Strategy: 'Consequently' signals cause-and-effect; 'Furthermore' signals continuation; 'Similarly' signals comparison. Only 'Nevertheless' conveys the overcoming of an obstacle.
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