Explanation for Question 5 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question five says it's used in line 42, 2 followed most dearly means what? So let's look back in the passage here and 3 see what sentence they're referencing to get some context. 4 So the sentence that they're referencing starts in line 41, 5 it says it was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets and 6 who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. So again, 7 the word that we're looking to consider here is followed. 8 And we can see here if they're talking about this action in relation to 9 markets, oops, that's not what we wanted in relation to 10 markets that following a market is just going to mean keeping up 11 with. So they're keeping up with the changes and developments in the market. 12 So followed means keeping up 13 with, so let's look at the answer choices here 14 and see which one might match this idea. 15 So if we start with answer choice a, it says came after. 16 So if Alexandra came after the markets, 17 that might not really make all that much sense in the context of this 18 passage to go after something might mean that you're angry about something. 19 So you go after it or that it ran away from you. 20 In this case, they're talking about the markets. So like farming markets. 21 So neither of those scenarios would really apply. 22 So answer choice a would change the context. 23 If you look at answer choice B, it says imitated closely, 24 this one's going to be incorrect because she's not imitating the markets, 25 right. She's just keeping up w...