Explanation for Question 15 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 15 asks as used in line 18 steps. 2 Most nearly means. Well, so let's look back in the passage here at the 3 sentence. This is referring to, to get some context and understand better what this 4 word is being used to do or insinuate. 5 So the sentence says many people did not change their behavior because they did 6 not think how they did not think they could make a difference and did 7 not know which steps were most important. 8 So just a reminder, the word that we're looking at here is steps. 9 And so just kind of based on the context, 10 we can assume that the steps that these people are, 11 that this author is referring to are like the individual things these people can 12 do to reduce water conservation. 13 So we're talking more about actions. 14 So if we look back at the answer choices, 15 we can go through each of them. 16 So answer choice a says, measures the measures. 17 They didn't know which measures were most important. 18 So that would make sense, right? Measures is another word for actions that can 19 be used to mean the same thing. It doesn't change the meaning of the 20 sentence here. So answer choice a might be a good answer choice. 21 If we look at answer choice B strides, 22 this one's going to be a little bit off. It's going to be incorrect. 23 Typically when you're talking about strides, like not as literal steps, 24 when you're talking about like strides towards a goal, 25 those are more like, like 26 things accomplished by groups of people. So ...