Explanation for Question 27 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 27 says as used in 9 41 emerged most nearly means what? 2 So let's look back into the passage for some context here, 3 so we can answer this question. So the sentence that they're referencing says, 4 in addition, more complex and diverse river remains emerge, 5 including more traces of mud, probably due to the enhanced chemical weathering that plants 6 assessed. So just to remind you of the word that we're looking at here 7 is emerge. And I can think of a word from our own vocabulary that 8 we might be able to replace this with, to help us identify the correct 9 answer here. So the first thing that comes to my mind, 10 the first word or phrase that comes to my mind is just our found. 11 So in addition, 12 more complex and diverse river remains are found including more traces of mud, 13 probably due to the enhanced chemical weathering that plants assist. 14 Another word that you might be able to replace here is identified. 15 So let's look at the answer choices and see if any of those, 16 any of them match the two phrases that we have here. 17 So answer choice a says to rise, 18 answer choice a is going to be incorrect in this case, 19 if the river beds, the more complex and diverse river beds were to rise, 20 that would mean that they're just now coming into existence or that, 21 so that would imply, and in this case, those riverbeds and river remains have 22 existed previously, right? They're just now being discovered. 23 So answer choice a would be incorrect. If yo...