Explanation for Question 24 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 24 says as used in line 18, 2 the word active most nearly means what? 3 So we can examine the context of this sentence in the passage. 4 It says how can allow sin and his Gothenburg university colleagues, 5 OCHA Volvo and Johanne Westberg wondered if slow fibers responsive to 6 gentle pressure might be active in humans, 7 as well as in other mammals, forgive me for butchering those names. 8 So active. We can think of maybe 9 words from our vocabulary that might replace this and still maintain the context of 10 the sentence. So some words that I think of that could 11 replace it would be maybe located. 12 So they wondered if slow fibers responsive to gentle pressure might be located in 13 humans as well as in other mammals. Another word that I think of is 14 functional. They 15 wondered if slow fibers responsive to gentle brush or might be functional in humans, 16 as well as other mammals. So let's go back and look at the answer 17 choices and see which one best matches either of those two words. 18 So a we have present in this sense presence going to mean a 19 location. So that would go along with our use of the word located. 20 So we'll keep that answer. 21 Choice, answer choice B says attentive. 22 So that's going to mean something like paying attention to in this case, 23 that wouldn't fit in the context of the sentence, 24 the slow fibers responding to gentle pressure might be paying 25 attention to in humans, as well as another animals. 26 That's not going to ma...