Explanation for Question 3 From the Reading Section on the 2018 May Sat
Question number three is asking us about the meaning of a word in context. 2 It says as he is in line to have stirred most nearly means what? 3 So taking a look at this line in the context of the passage, 4 it's all the way at the beginning. It was not often that she came 5 to the play stirred to her heart's core by actualities. 6 So we see this expression, 7 she's feeling stirred, she's stirred her heart's core. 8 What does it mean essentially here? 9 It means that she is experiencing all of these different emotions. 10 She's coming into it with all these feelings that affect her perception of the 11 play, her perception of real life. 12 So she's bringing in the sense of her everyday life, 13 as she goes into watching this play. And that shapes her eventual feeling of 14 longing of disappointment with her daily life and those sorts of feelings that are 15 expressed further along in the passage. 16 So when we look at our answer choices, answer choice a says, 17 moved this accurately reflects sort of the array of 18 emotions that she's coming into this with. So mood generally just means coming 19 in, um, with, with all these heavy emotions. 20 So that's what we're trying to get across here with the line stirred. 21 Um, the word start in mind too. So as our correct answer, 22 looking at our other answer choices though, be angered, 23 um, maybe she's going to feel a bit frustrated by the play, 24 but anchored isn't really the right word to use right off the bat, 25 right? Initia...