Explanation for Question 26 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 26 says as used in line 17, 2 traditionally most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage here for 3 some context as to what this word might be used for and just 4 what a good synonym would be to replace here. 5 So the sentence that's contained in says, 6 traditionally, they have resorted to ground-based telescopes to determine it by measuring the wobble 7 of the star as the planet tugs on it. 8 So again, the word that we're looking at here is traditionally, 9 and in this case, it's being used to describe a technique that was used 10 in place of this new technique. 11 So dare I say, 12 an old technique. So traditionally they have done this. 13 Now they're doing this. So maybe it traditionally here would mean like in 14 the past. So if we look at the answer choices here, 15 we can see pretty quickly that answer choice C historically is going to 16 be, have the closest meaning to in the past, right? 17 Historically, oops, you can't see that, sorry. 18 Historically, people have used this technology to do this or this technique 19 now in this forward-thinking technique that we have, 20 we're doing it this way. If we look at a, 21 it says authentically that would indicate some like 22 element of something being authentic or inauthentic. 23 I don't know the proper word there, but not authentic. 24 Right? So some kind of fake something and that's 25 just not present in this sentence. So a would be incorrect if we look 26 at B properly, that would indicate that s...