McGraw-Hill Education GRE 2019

Select-in-Passage Questions

In Select-in-Passage questions, you will be asked to highlight a sentence in the

passage that corresponds to the information that the question asks for. These

questions will usually be phrased as “Select the sentence in which the author.. .”

Select the sentence in which the author introduces a theory that Tolleter’s

research rejects.

How to Tackle a Select-in-Passage Question

Use the context of the question to determine where to turn to in the passage.

In the first paragraph, the author introduces the background of coral bleaching

and previous explanations for it, so you should look there. Since Tolleter’s team

rejects photosynthesis as an explanation for coral bleaching, find the sentence

that introduces the previous belief that photosynthesis was responsible for

coral bleaching. The sentence is “The prevailing explanation for coral bleaching

has been that the increase in the ocean’s temperature disrupts the process of

photosynthesis—the conversion of light into energy—and thereby kills the algae.”

Vocabulary Questions

Vocabulary questions are usually phrased in the following way: In the context in

which it appears, “.. .” most nearly means....

On the computer-based test, the word being referred to will always be

highlighted.

In the context in which it appears, “implicating” (line 21) most nearly means

A suggesting

B accusing

C questioning

D undermining

E neglecting

How to Tackle a Vocabulary Question

Treat reading-based vocabulary questions the same way you treat Sentence

Equivalence and Text Completion questions: use the context to make your own

prediction; then find which word in the choices most closely matches your prediction.

Let’s review the previous question with this advice in mind: “Implicating” appears

in the following sentence: “Future research is necessary to identify the other routes by

which bleaching occurs, but these findings, by implicating additional mechanisms in

the process of bleaching, should point scientists toward new directions in identifying

ways to decelerate this bleaching process.” The word is used in reference to the

discovery of mechanisms other than photosynthesis that are responsible for coral

bleaching. A good prediction would thus be discovering. Of the choices, the word

closest in meaning to discovering is suggesting. The correct answer is Choice A.

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