Explanation for Question 35 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 35 says, as you said, 9 30, 6 and 9 37 delivered most or delivers 2 most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage here for some 3 context, the sentence that they're referring to says, 4 because it delivers more than a 5% reduction in risk. 5 It delivers certainty. So the first thing that we should do here to kind 6 of interpret what this is saying is to determine what this it is 7 referring to. And in this case, 8 the it that they're referring to is this decline from 5% 9 to 0%. So the, 10 it is the decline. So the second thing we need to look at is 11 since delivers means the same thing in both sentences as 12 implied by the question, but can really just focus on one of these sentences 13 to determine what they're trying to say. 14 That way our life is a little bit easier. 15 So let's look at this second one, 16 and let's just consider this in the context of the answer choices. 17 So this decline is delivering certainty. 18 So if we're looking at the answer choices here, 19 if we're to describe the decline as surrendering certainty, 20 that would change the meaning of the sentence, 21 it would add a little element of kind of submission or something like 22 that, right? Surrenders and delivers are two different things, 23 very nuanced, but different. I feel like an answer choice B it says releases. 24 So the decline releases certainty. 25 Again, it's going to mean something different than delivering certainty, 26 right? If you're releasing something that ...