Explanation for Question 29 From the Reading Section on the 2019 April Sat
For 29, we want to know is used in line 48, 2 worked most nearly mean. So just like the last one, 3 we're not going to look at any of the choices we're going to go 4 right to line 48 and find the word worked. 5 So here it is. Now let's read the whole sentence. 6 Furthermore, they experimentally demonstrated that this camouflage actually worked to hide the plant 7 from its predators and increased its fitness. 8 So if we start thinking of some synonyms, 9 um, the camouflage, his purpose was to hide the plant. 10 The camouflage helped hide the plant. 11 Um, it served to hide the plant. 12 So those are some synonyms and phrases we can replace worked with. 13 And now we can look at the answer choices. 14 We have changed, influenced, 15 functioned, and manipulated. And we said that its purpose was, 16 um, it served to, and I think functioned would be the 17 closest to our synonyms. So the correct answer is C.