[Video] Q10: As used in line 50, “bearing” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 10 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 10 says as using line 50 bearing most nearly means what? 2 So what's the fact in the passage and get some context here. 3 So the lines we're looking at here, 4 say the wind is still from the south, 5 bearing a steadily northward at the speed of a trotting dog. 6 So we can take this word bearing and replace it with something from our 7 vocabulary that might well, 8 that would maintain the meaning of the sentence. 9 So the thing that comes to my mind first is that you 10 could replace this with the word taking. 11 So the wind is still from the south, 12 taking a steadily northward at the speed of a trotting dog. 13 And not, it makes sense here because it's old times, 14 they're probably on a sailboat. So the wind is blowing through the sails, 15 taking them northward at some set speed. 16 But regardless of all of that, the word bearing is going to imply 17 the context of motion. So let's look at the answer choices and see 18 which one best matches these two ideas. 19 So if we look at answer choice a, it says carrying, 20 so this could be a good answer choice here because carrying, 21 taking both imply motion, 22 the wind is carrying the sailboat northward. 23 So it might be a good answer choice here. If we look at B, 24 it says affecting this, isn't going to be correct. 25 It doesn't imply that context of motion that is moving the boat. 26 So B would be incorrect for that reason. 27 And C would be incorrect for much the same reason. 28 Again, it's not implying that context of the movement of the boat in a 29 northward direction towards the north pole. 30 So see, it would be incorrect for that reason. If we look at D 31 again much the same thing, not talking about moving the 32 boat anywhere. So answer choice a carrying would be 33 correct in this context because it best matches both bearing 34 and taking, and it goes along with that idea of motion,