SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** An early single-center study suggested that keeping critically ill patients' blood sugar within a very tight target range…
Text 1
An early single-center study suggested that keeping critically ill patients' blood sugar within a very tight target range through intensive insulin therapy improved survival outcomes in the intensive care unit.
Text 2
A subsequent large, multi-center trial testing the same very tight blood sugar targets found increased rates of severe low blood sugar episodes and higher mortality compared to a less strict target range, leading many hospitals to move away from the tightest glucose control protocols.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
An early single-center study suggested that keeping critically ill patients' blood sugar within a very tight target range through intensive insulin therapy improved survival outcomes in the intensive care unit.
Text 2
A subsequent large, multi-center trial testing the same very tight blood sugar targets found increased rates of severe low blood sugar episodes and higher mortality compared to a less strict target range, leading many hospitals to move away from the tightest glucose control protocols.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
Answer and explanation
Answer: C: A finding from a smaller, earlier study did not hold up when tested in a larger, broader trial, leading to a reversal in recommended practice.
The passage's structure, an early, narrower positive finding followed by a broader trial reversing it, is exactly what C names. A misstates the relationship, since Text 2 contradicts Text 1 instead of confirming it. B incorrectly assumes identical scope between a single-center study and a multi-center trial. D overstates Text 2 into a denial of any relationship, when it actually shows a specific, harmful relationship at very tight targets.
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