The 1970s witnessed dramatic increases in the price of oil. These oil shocks forced motorists to wait in long lines to fill their cars with more expensive gasoline. Although the oil shocks strongly affected individual consumers, a research team led by Gbadebo Oladosu discovered that the price increases had a surprisingly limited
impact on national economies.
SAT test writers are using Oladosu’s findings to generate a very challenging High-Frequency cluster of Oil Shock vocabulary in context questions. Let’s take a close look:
