Explanation for Question 27 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 27 says the author most likely uses the word countless in line 14 2 to do what? So let's look back at the sentence that they're referencing in 3 the passage, get some context for this word and try and determine its purpose. 4 So if we look back here, the sentence that this is contained in is 5 relatively long. So I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it says, 6 but although disruptive camouflage, 7 which was that your theory here was cited in countless textbooks. 8 It remained largely untested until 2005. 9 So in this case, just to reminder, 10 we're looking at the word countless. And so basically what I get from this 11 statement is just the implication that like, 12 even though this theory is untested, it's super popular, 13 super widely accepted. If it's appearing in like actual textbooks, 14 then again, probably super widely accepted by scientists in general. 15 So if we look back at the answer choices here, 16 we can just go through each of them. 17 It says, it says to describe the variety of textbooks, 18 to which camouflaged research researchers have contributed material. 19 So answer choice is going to be incorrect. 20 It says countless textbook, but countless doesn't imply variety. 21 Maybe it's all about one subject. Maybe it's not, 22 maybe it's all the same author. Maybe it's not, 23 there's really not enough information in that sentence to determine. 24 And it's not really about the contribution to textbooks so much as like the 25 fact that it appea...