Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat
So question number two is asking us if the author should insert the following 2 sentence. And the following sentence tells us that piano tuning became 3 a profession in the 19th century when the harpsichord was superseded by the modern 4 piano. So here, we're talking about the career path and the profession of 5 piano tuning. Now, if we look at the paragraph before, 6 but you see that what we, most of taught, taught mostly talk about is 7 things needing to be replaced on instruments, 8 repairing instruments, and fixing instruments, 9 and that sentence prior reads that pianos need to be tuned, 10 right? So we're talking about tuning in the sense of fixing a piano, 11 making it work better. And so talking about piano tuning is not necessarily 12 on topic with repairs, right? We don't need any historical aspects about piano tuning 13 to understand this paragraph. So anything that says yes is no 14 good. 15 And then finally, if we're looking between C and D C says no, 16 because it fails to address the development of the modern guitar and the modern 17 clarinet. Now, this isn't really important to the paragraph, 18 because again, we're not talking about the development of modern instruments, 19 right? We're not talking about how modern instruments came about. 20 We're just talking about the fact that they need to be repaired. 21 So C is on top, is off topic that if we look at the, 22 it offers tangential information, 23 right? So that means on essential, not necessary about piano tuning that interrupts 24 the progression of ideas. And this is good, 25 right? Because the progression of ideas that we had were about repairs and we're 26 interrupting it with information about piano tuning. 27 And so for question number two, our best answer is going to be the.