Explanation for Question 44 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 4 44 says as used in line for port most nearly means what? 2 So let's look back into the passage for some context here to see what 3 sentence they're referencing. So we 4 find this in the first paragraph, 5 the sentence that they're talking about says this, 6 the poor market may be slowing innovation, 7 but advances continue judging by the mood this week at the I E E 8 photovoltaics specialist conference in Tampa, 9 Florida, people in the industry remain optimistic about its longterm prospects. 10 So just a reminder that the word that we're looking at here is 11 poor in line four, and we can see why this market as described 12 as poor and the sentence prior to that. So it says solar panel installations 13 continue to grow quickly, but the solar panel manufacturing industry is in the doldrums 14 because supply far exceeds demand. So in this case, 15 the market is poor because there's not enough demand for 16 the amount of product that's being produced by the technology companies. 17 So again, the market is poor because not a lot of people want them. 18 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one might best 19 convey the idea of a market being poor because people don't want the solar 20 panels. 21 So if we start with answer choice a week, 22 this might be a good word to describe 23 what poor means in the context of this passage. 24 Because if a market is weak, 25 that means that there's not a lot of demand. 26 So to describe a market as weak would be syn...