Explanation for Question 23 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 23 asks the author central claim about disruptive camouflage. 2 Is that it as well? So let's look back into the introductory paragraph where 3 the author makes their central claim and see what that has to say here. 4 So we can look back. The central claim is highlighted there. 5 It says predators. He reasoned locate their prey by looking for their outlines. 6 So animals with high contrast markings that disrupt tail telltale edges and 7 create false ones can evade detection. So basically what they're saying is that 8 this idea of disruptive coloring those high contrast outlines or 9 markings to kind of break up those outlines as used as a 10 camouflage technique to protect prey from predators. 11 And it looks here, it looks like here that it's affective. 12 So this is a way that these prey have adapted to survive in their 13 environment. So if you look back at the answer choices here, 14 we can just go through each of them, answer choice. 15 A says that it is readily neutralized by scanning for outline. 16 So answer choice is going to be the opposite of what we were talking 17 about for something to be readily neutralized. 18 That's going to imply that it's kind of overcome. 19 So in this case, the predators can overcome the fact that they can't spot 20 these hard to see creatures by scanning for outlines. 21 And that is contradictory to what it says in the passage. 22 So then if we look at answer choice B, it says a once effective 23 protection strategy that has beco...