Explanation for Question 16 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 16 is asking us to choose the word that best fits in this 2 underlined section. So we want to find a word that meets the style 3 of this passage. It kind of, um, 4 is similar to the other Voke, having a reused in the other paragraph, 5 sentences phrases, et cetera. And the sentence in question is 6 starts here. 7 Um, for instance, a historical consultants for master and commander will say that the 8 directors decided to emphasize the commodity of the ships officers meant dumping 9 the period's formal social protocol. 10 So what they're trying to say, 11 um, is that they're, 12 they're forgetting the periods, formal social protocol that I'm emphasizing 13 on the ship's officers meant, 14 um, kind of like putting to the side and not, 15 um, not adhering to the period. 16 Social particle dumping is just, 17 it's not the word we want to use here. We're not talking about throwing 18 away. 19 It also doesn't meet the same vocabulary as, 20 um, the rest of the passages. It's a pretty formal passage, 21 it's historical, but they use kind of former words. 22 If we read the first sentence here, this deliberate decision to forego accuracy 23 for cinematic effects, it's the vocabulary is 24 a little bit higher than the word dumping. And we can say the same 25 thing for ditching and scrapping at the same time. 26 It's not this exact meaning that we're trying to say, 27 ditching we're scrapping. It's not that he's ditching, 28 we're scrapping the period's formal social protocol. 29 He's disregarding it. He's not, 30 um, placing the importance on it. 31 Um, and he's kind of putting it off to the side. 32 Um, on the other hand, disregarding does match that tiny bit higher vocabulary level, 33 um, than the other three options.