Explanation for Question 49 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 49 says Houston line 69 betting on most nearly means. 2 What? So let's look back in the passage at the sentence. 3 They're referencing to get some context to answer this question. 4 So the sentence that they're talking about starts in line 69, 5 it says even longer term green is betting on Silicon, 6 aiming to take advantage of the huge reductions in costs already seen with the 7 technology. So again, just a reminder, 8 the word that we're looking at here is betting on and we can see 9 from the sentence that all it's trying to say is that this scientist named 10 green has seen the advantages of this kind of technology, 11 the Silicon. And so he's going to start using it. 12 He's going to take advantage of the benefits that he's seen and other people 13 using this technology and use it for himself. So let's look at the answer 14 choices here and see if any of them kind of indicate that. 15 So if we start with answer choice, a dabbling in answer choice a might 16 be a good distractor answer here, 17 but it's going to be ultimately incorrect because it doesn't indicate the correct level 18 of involvement that this scientist named green is going to have with the Silicon 19 dabbling in would indicate like just starting out with or dipping your toe in 20 or something like that. In this case, what the sentence is trying to convey 21 is that green is going to start using this technology fully. 22 So answer choice a would be incorrect for that reason. 23 If we look at answer ...