Drill: Add the Details - Conquering Hard Passages - Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT

Are You Ready for the SAT & ACT?

Conquering Hard Passages

Drill: Add the Details

Use the clues in the following sentences that you already simplified in the last drill to add some details back in.

1. Original: Though the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act in 1999 did not engender excessive controversy, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, some members of Congress are now pushing to resuscitate the legislation, which was originally passed in 1933 to separate traditional banks from the riskier financial services industry.

Simplified: Members of Congress are doing something to the legislation.

What does doing something mean?

____________________________

____________________________

What is the legislation about?

____________________________

____________________________

New sentence:

____________________________

____________________________

2. Original: William Perkin unwittingly produced mauve, the first synthetic dye, while trying to engineer artificial quinine in his endeavor to cure malaria.

Simplified: A guy produced something while trying to do something else.

What does something mean?

____________________________

____________________________

What does something else mean?

____________________________

____________________________

New sentence:

____________________________

____________________________