Answer Choices
balloons will never replace other modes of transportation.
the North Pole is farther away than the cities usually reached by train.
people often travel from one city to another without considering the implications.
reaching the North Pole has no foreseeable benefit to humanity.
Explanation for Question 8 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
Eight says the question. The narrator asks in lines 30 through 31, 2 most nearly implies what? So let's look back on the passage for some context 3 here. 4 So we can read a little bit around this question, 5 starting, maybe in line 27. 6 It says, what I don't understand is why I am so intent on going 7 to this particular place who wants to north pole? 8 What good is it? Can you eat it? Will it carry you from goth 9 and Berg to Momo like railway? So basically what he's saying in this passage, 10 or what he's doing in this passage is questioning the reason 11 of going to the north pole, basically saying that there's no point. 12 And if you look later in the passage, 13 the narrator goes on to say, what will you find when you reached them? 14 When you reach the point? Exactly. Nothing. So what the author or 15 narrator is saying here is that there's really no point. 16 There's no usefulness of discovering or reaching the north 17 pole. So let's go back and see what answer choice 18 best matches that. 19 So if we look at answer choice a, it says it most nearly implies 20 that balloons will never replace other modes of transportation. 21 So answer tours a takes this question extremely, 22 literally, which would be incorrect in this context, 23 nowhere in the passage. Does it talk about modes of transportation or anything like 24 that? Balloons, trains, whatever. So answer choice a is incorrect 25 simply because it's too literal. It's not, 26 we're talking about implication here. S...