Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 17 says as used in line 58 cuts, 2 most nearly means what? So we can look back at the sentence that they're 3 referencing here in the passage and read through that. 4 See if we can get some context as to what this word is being 5 used to mean. So we can see that it starts there in line 55. 6 It says while the sanctions were minor, squanders had to participate in a water 7 saving workshop and were subject to an extra day of water cuts. 8 They were nevertheless effective because the tar, 9 they targeted highly visible actors. So we can infer a couple of things. 10 Based on this sentence, these water cuts are being referred to as sanctions sanctions 11 are like fines or things like that. 12 Punishment for quote, 13 unquote, bad behavior or behavior, 14 not going along with water conservation. 15 So this is going to be a negative thing. 16 The next thing that we can see here is obviously that those sanctions are 17 related to not conserving water. So if they're not conserving water, 18 that's a bad thing. So they'll impose water cuts on these people, 19 or just reducing the amount of water that they're allocated for a day, 20 a week, a month, something like that. So in this case, 21 it says a day 22 let's look back at the answer choices here, see which one has more of 23 that negative connotation and implies like reduction of water in 24 this case, it's pretty obvious that the correct answer 25 here is going to be answered choice B it very explicitly states reductions. 2...