Explanation for Question 26 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 26 says as used in line 38, 2 treated most nearly means what? So let's look into the passage for some context 3 here and see if we can answer this question. 4 So line 38, the sentence starts each treated flower admitted 5 about 45 times more fragrance than a normal one. 6 The other half of the plants got swabs without fragrance. 7 So we can look at a couple of our context clues here to determine 8 what the author's trying to say. When he describes flowers as treated. 9 The first thing we can look at here is that a treated flower is 10 being contracted with a normal flower. 11 So this description of treated is going to mean something 12 like different, right? This each different flower, 13 each weird flower writes something other than normal. 14 So abnormal each abnormal flower admitted about 45 times more fragrance. 15 The second thing that we can look at here is that this treated is 16 going to correspond to a treatment. 17 And we can see that this treatment comes in the sentence before it says 18 to find out she, and either planted 168 Texas Gord vines in an Iowa 19 field. And throughout the August, flowering season made half the plants more fragrant by 20 tucking, Dima, Fox. Benzenes treated swabs deep inside their flowers. 21 So the treatment that these flowers are receiving to become a treated flowers 22 is going to be this part here, 23 where it says made half the plants more 24 fragrant by tucking, these treated swabs inside their flowers. 25 So the two things...