Explanation for Question 42 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 42 says as used in line 16 gain, 2 most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage here at the 3 sentence they're referencing and try and see if we can get some context to 4 answer this question. So the sentence that they're talking about says the plant species 5 that benefit the most from high resource availability may also gain the most from 6 escaping enemies upon moving to a new range. 7 So just to remind you of the word that we're looking at here is 8 gain. And so if we kind of think about the context and 9 what this word is being used to describe really dissecting this sentence, 10 what it's saying is that sometimes plant species will gain more resources, 11 more ability to live more. 12 Um, just in general, 13 quality of life, talking about plants here from escaping 14 like invasive species. So moving to a new place, 15 they'll gain more ability to live. 16 And this case we can think of that gain in terms of resources. 17 So they may also acquire more resources or require the 18 most resources from escaping enemies upon moving to a new range. 19 So if we look at the answer choices here, 20 we can see that the one that's going to most indicate that, 21 uh, acquisition of resources is going to be profit, 22 right? We can think of, and traditionally we think of profit in terms of 23 money. You're acquiring money, like more money than you're spending, 24 but in this case, that currency can just be like water, 25 food, sunlight space, 26 things like that....