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SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 4/5

Anthropologist Margaret Mead's 1928 study of Samoan adolescence portrayed the culture as remarkably free of the conflicts and anxieties typical of Western teenagers. ______ , subsequent fieldwork by other researchers suggested Mead may have been misled by some of her teenage informants, who had a tradition of teasing outsiders.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

  • A

    Indeed

  • B

    By comparison

  • C

    Specifically

  • D

    Decades later

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Explanation

The second sentence introduces what was discovered after Mead's original study, contrasting her findings. "Decades later" signals the temporal shift that grounds the contrast. The others do not capture both the time shift and contrast.

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