[Video] Q7: No change or to have been the sight or to have been cite or too have been the site

Explanation for Question 7 From the Writing Section on the 2019 May Sat

Question number seven is asking us to come up with a transition word. 2 So here, we're going to be looking at the relationship between our two sentences 3 and figuring out which transition word fast kind of signposts 4 that meaning, um, between the two sentences for our reader. 5 So the previous sentence is saying that the Alvarez hypothesis 6 is challenged by this other research. 7 Um, and our new sentence is saying here, 8 a range of volcanoes in Western India is thought to have been the site 9 of several huge eruptions near the end of the Cretaceous period. 10 So we can tell that this new detail, 11 that the new sentence that we're looking at here is essentially just providing more 12 detail about the research that is suggesting gradual environmental change, 13 which has suggested in the previous sentence. 14 So in this case, when we look at our answer choices, 15 we want to find, um, an answer that illustrates that relationship. 16 So finally it doesn't really do that. 17 Finally makes it sound like we're introducing one last point. 18 When in reality, we're kind of building off of the previous sentence. 19 So the no change option is out B says, 20 furthermore, furthermore has a similar meaning. 21 Um, in this case, furthermore would indicate that we are introducing another example or 22 diving further into, um, 23 an example we're already discussing. Um, 24 but it's a little bit more argumentative and it doesn't suggest that we are 25 diving more, um, diving more in dept...