Explanation for Question 28 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 28 says it's used in line 45 practical. 2 Most nearly means what? So let's look back into the passage here at 3 some context, maybe the sentence that this word is contained in and see if 4 we can use our context clues to figure out what this word is meaning. 5 So if we look at this sentence, it says the technique became practical. 6 Thanks to the Kepler spacecraft, which until 2013 was monitoring the brightness of 160,000 7 nearby stars for the telltale Deming due to transiting planets. 8 So a little bit more context here. 9 If we think about what's outlined before is the difficulties 10 that they were facing using this technique. 11 You can see at the bottom of this first column, 12 that they were failing to detect transit timing variations. 13 So they it's sorry. 14 The paragraph is outlining kind of the transition from failing to being successful. 15 And so in this case, if we're replacing the word practical, 16 we could say something like usable. 17 So the technique became usable. So let's look at the answer choices here. 18 So we can see that the one that most closely means 19 usable, it's going to be workable, right? 20 That went from being unworkable. You're unable to use it or work the technique 21 to being workable. You're able to work with the technique. 22 If we look at ordinary, 23 that's going to be incorrect, right? This is a new technology it's out of 24 the ordinary. It's groundbreaking. So a would be wrong. 25 If we look at see systematic, that might...