Explanation for Question 28 From the Reading Section on the 2019 March Sat
For question number 28, we're looking at another word in context here. 2 We're looking at the word trick in line 42. 3 So let's take a look at the context for that here. 4 Line 42 is talking about the process of, 5 um, the bionic leaf and how it's producing energy. 6 It says the hydrogen gas is fed to a metabolically engineered version 7 of a bacterium and the bacteria can bind the hydrogen hydrogen with carbon dioxide, 8 and then through a trick of bioengineering, 9 they produce this substance, which can be burned in an engine. 10 So the phrase here is trick of bioengineering that we were looking 11 at. So the way trick is used here, 12 um, is to suggest that this is a technique it's very clever. 13 It's very sophisticated. So the fact that we're saying a trick of bioengineering, 14 it's much like we would say a feat of bioengineering or, 15 um, a success of bioengineering. 16 So something that, um, is, is quite smart, 17 quite sophisticated, and it's a very useful technique that is used. 18 Um, so when we look at our answer choices, 19 that seems to best line up with choice, 20 a clever technique. Um, 21 this is not a mischievous prank as a suggested and B. 22 Um, it's rather a part of the process of how this bionic leaf works. 23 So a mischievous prank doesn't quite fit here. 24 See a fleeting illusion. Also doesn't work since it's just part of the process, 25 um, and choice DIA, deliberate deception. 26 Again, these phrases like deception and illusion, 27 um, don't properly address the way that this order is 28 being used in this context here. The reason that we're saying trick instead of, 29 um, a more simple word, like technique is that we're trying to just suggest 30 how sophisticated, how clever, how smart this, 31 um, this, this process really is. 32 So we ended up with choice a for number 28, 33 a clever technique.