Explanation for Question 2 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question two says as used in line 16 kicks most nearly means what? 2 So let's look back in the passage for some context here. 3 The sentence that they're referencing starts in line 13, 4 it says he did not Demir. Even when asked to fix watches, 5 though, that enterprise did spectacularly bad. 6 And in fact, earned more kicks, earned him more kicks than kudos for no 7 watch. He took apart ever kept time again. 8 So we can use some of our context clues here to determine what this 9 word kicks is referencing. So the first thing we can look at is 10 the last part of the sentence, where it says no watch. 11 He took apart ever kept time again. So he's saying he's going to fix 12 watches. He's taking them apart, but he's breaking them. 13 And that's that. So not necessarily the best business strategy, 14 you can also see, uh, 15 in the part of the sentence before it says it was an enterprise that 16 did spark spectacularly badly. 17 So again, a negative vibe associated with this word kicks. 18 The last thing that we can look at is that this kicks is being 19 contracted with the word kudos and the word kudos means something like praise or 20 admiration. So you get kudos when you do something good and you get kicks 21 when you do something bad. The last thing we should say before we look 22 at the answer choices is that these are things like judgements. 23 So kicks are judgements for bad things, 24 kudos or judgments for good things. So let's look at the answer choices and 25 see whic...