[Video] Q31: As used in line 21, “common” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 31 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 31 says the phrase liquid gold in line 71 most directly suggests 2 what? So let's look back in the passage and see what they're saying. 3 When they're talking about this liquid gold, we can read a little bit around 4 it. It says all that was left to do is collect the milk and 5 extract and purify the protein at Vola human medicine. 6 And for GTC, liquid gold actually hit the market in 2006, 7 becoming the world's first transgenic animal drug. 8 So it's imperative to understand, 9 or just to remember that GTC is we can see 10 it down here. Um, 11 a Massachusetts firm that's producing this drug. 12 So this drug is hitting the market. 13 It's the first drug of its kind. 14 And so what does that mean for the company that's producing it in the 15 context of being described as liquid gold. 16 In this case, we also know that gold is a commodity that's 17 rather expensive. So we can kind of do a little bit of inferencing here 18 to conclude that for GTC being liquid gold 19 means that Akron is going to make them a good amount of money. 20 If it's the world's first transgenic animal drug, 21 and it's going to save lots of human lives. 22 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one best matches that. 23 If we look at answer choice, a, it says GTC has invested a great 24 deal of money into the microinjection technique. 25 So like we were saying, this drug is making them lots of money, 26 not costing them, lots of money. 27 And it's also those lines. Aren't referencing...