Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 16 says it's used in line 45 size for most nearly means. 2 What? So let's look back at this sentence in the passage and see if 3 we can get a little bit of context, some insight here and go from 4 there. So the sentence that they're talking about starts, 5 she liked Tantalus is placed in a situation where the intellectual blessing she starts 6 for is within her view, but she is not permitted to attain it. 7 She is conscious of possessing equally strong mental powers, 8 but she is obliged to yield as the weaker creature. 9 So just again, the words that we're looking to analyze 10 here are size four, 11 and let's kind of look at some context clues to see if we can 12 find a word from our own vocabulary that we could replace here and still 13 maintain the meaning of the sentence. So we can see that this is something 14 that she just being the subject of the sentence here can see. 15 So within her view, so something she can see, 16 but can't have, right. She's not permitted to attain it so she can see 17 it, but she can't have it in this case, 18 the size four is going to indicate, want or desire. 19 So in this case, we can have something as simple as the word where 20 the intellectual blessing she wants is within her view, 21 but she is not permitted to attain it. She is conscious of possessing equally 22 strong mental powers, but as obliged to yield by, 23 or as the weaker creature. So it's just indicating what if we look at 24 oops, technical difficulties. 25 Okay. If...