All right.
It's time for a review of the field.
The blink question.
Now, the field of blank question is one of the easier questions on the reading test for the Alps exam.
And so you really, really want to do well when it comes to this question.
I'm going to.
In this lecture, I'm going to give you a really good breakdown of how to attack this question.
So let's go ahead and get into the strategy.
So with the fill the blank question, just as a review, this question is just requiring you to fill
in a missing word.
Right.
There's a missing word in the sentence.
And so you have to examine the sentence and then you have to number to scan.
You have to pull out the keywords in the question, then go to the passage and you have to scan for
the matching sentence to that question.
Then you have to read that sentence and pull out what word goes on the blank line.
Now, as you see in the example here to the right, you'll see that it's possible to have two blank
lines like number 33 and number 34.
You have two blank lines within one question.
And for number 35, you have two blank lines within one question.
So you have to have two words there.
So clearly this is from reading passage number three.
Right.
But the feel of the blank question is really, really straightforward, really straightforward.
And so now I'm going to go over some of the more specific strategy.
Well, first, let's get into some helpful information.
You know that this question goes in order.
I've mentioned it before.
This is a question type that goes in one.
It goes in order.
That means that after number five, you'll find number six and before number five, you'll find number
four.
This is a great question to complete.
First, a really, really good question to do first and the question set, because it's easier to do
and it will allow for you to be able to really get a good handle on what the passage is talking about
when you have to go back and do those questions that don't go in order.
Now, 80% of the answers are located in one sentence.
What that means is there's one sentence from the passage.
And and also you have the question now, I will say this.
That percentage of of the answer being located in one sentence is slowly dropping down more and more
and more as we're getting as the test is progressing forward, the real exam.
Now they're trying to really create a compound sentence, meaning that they're really taking two sentences
now two sentences and using two sentences from the passage to create one question.
One one sentence in a question.
And so you have to be aware that that is a trend.
Right.
One of the things that I try to make sure that I pay attention to and advise you on are the trends that
are happening with the with the exam.
And one of those trends is that there really are using more and more are using two sentences to create
a question.
So they'll take maybe some information from sentence number three in paragraph number two and some information
from sentence number four and paragraph number to take that take that information together and create
one question.
And so a lot of the question language might come from sentence number three, and then the answer will
be located in sentence number four.
So just be aware of that, because it's happening more and more.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the application of the question strategy.
So here I put together the questions and the matching package language.
So when you're talking about strategy, you look over to the right hand side and you'll see that the
this answering strategy, you first want to examine the questions.
Look at the questions.
I think it's a good idea to try to first identify which question is easier to do first.
Right.
Some questions have very specific language.
Or specific details.
When you're looking at these questions, there really is this one.
Number three.
Number three, I think, is actually the easiest one to start with first.
We don't see one into above this, but number three mentions 26 children.
Right.
That might be really easy to find.
Really easy to find.
Right.
And I know number four and five would be below that.
And number is two and one would be above that.
So you want to examine the question, identify the keywords, right?
Identify the keywords in the question.
So, you know, for a number three, 26 children and the language I want to pay attention to that's
going to connect to the answer is the word different?
Right.
And then for number four, the language that's going to connect to the answer is older.
And for number five, we have equal number of new and blank.
So whatever this answer is for number five, it will connect to the word new, right, connect to the
word new.
So I think it's really important for you to really recognize the language that's coming before or after
the blank line, because your answer choice will always connect to that language.
So when I'm looking at a sentence, what I'm looking at is a matching sentence in the passage.
I'm not trying to comprehend that entire sentence.
I'm trying to locate the language that's coming before or after the blank line, because I know that's
what my answer is going to point to.
So many, so many students waste time and get caught up in trying to.
I need to understand the entire sentence and comprehend the entire sentence for a fill the blank question.
That's not necessary.
Once you find the matching, once you find the matching sentence, look at it.
Find the language that comes before and after the blank line and you'll find the answer choice.
So identify the key words.
Start with the easiest question.
Scan the passage for matching language and then we on to apply the strategy.
So here for number three, right, we see it right here and it says so.
So we start by conducting 26 in-home ethnography in three markets across the United States.
Right.
So our answer is really, really clear.
We see 26, right.
And it says in three markets in three is synonym for different in three markets here it says in three
markets across the United States.
So the word order is a little bit different because in the question it says from different us and here
it says in three markets across the United States instead of saying in three US markets.
So that's what I mean by reordering the language sentence reordering, right sentence reordering.
But the answer is markets.
Now number four is really straight forward.
Not going to spend a lot of time on it.
Some children have older here says because previous research has shown the effects of older siblings.
Answers number four and number five is really straightforward also.
Equal number of new and experienced players in order to understand both experienced and new.
Right.
We divide it.
We divided the sample, right?
So we have an equal number of experience and knew again, all they did was switch up the word order.
New and new and experienced.
Experienced and new.
Let's go ahead and look at another example.
Right here for number 12.
It says the track, the track that took Bingham down the rhumba valley had been created for the transportation
of my aunt's is going to connect to what language transportation of.
When Bingham and his team set off down the rumba in late July, they had an advantage over travelers
who had preceded them.
Right.
A track had recently been blasted down the Valley Canyon to enable rubber to be brought up by mules
and from by mules from the jungle.
So it had been created for the transportation of rubber.
Right.
Transportation is what brought up by mules.
Brought up by mules is a synonym for transportation.
And what are they transporting?
They are transporting rubber.
Again, we are switching up the word order.
Here it says, Transportation of rubber is the answer in the passage that says rubber to be brought
up by mules.
Right.
That is that is a switch in the in the word order.
But I know my my know my answer choice is connected to transportation.
And then number 13 is in paragraph number C, Bingham found out about the ruins of Machu Picchu from
a blank in the Yoruba Yoruba Valley.
I'm sorry.
This Yoruba valley.
His companion showed no interest in accompanying him up the nearby hill to see some ruins that a local
farmer had told him about the night before.
Right.
So you found out about the ruins from a farmer.
You have to put the answer as farmer.
Look at the directions.
That's why directions are important.
Directions?
Say what?
One word only.
So on your answer sheet, if you write local farmer, you are wrong.
You are marked wrong, right?
Because you did not read the directions.
All right.
Here is another example.
Early humans use a material called Blank to make the sharp points from our earliest origins.
Man has been making the use of glass.
Right.
Historians have discovered that a type of natural glass.
A of natural glass obsidian formed in places such as the mouth of the volcano as a result of the intense
heat and melting sand was first used as tips for spears.
Right.
So we have numbers one and two in one sentence together.
Earliest humans use a material called what Obsidian?
A material called Obsidian to make sharp points of their spears.
Tips.
Sharp Points.
Tips.
Sharp points.
All right.
And number three.
4000 B.C. blank made of stone.
All right.
So it says archaeologists have even found evidence of man made glass, which dates back to 4000 B.C..
This took the form of a of glazes used for coating stone.
Used for coating stone beads.
Right.
So the beads.
Right.
The beads are made of stone.
That means the answer number three is beads.
So you see the way this works.
You're connecting language.
You're connecting answer choices to language that's located before or after the blank line.
Right.
And here you can look at this one also.
Right for this one.
Just stop just really stop the tape for a second.
Stop the lecture for a second and look at seven, eight and nine.
Read the question for seven.
Read the question for eight.
Read the question for nine.
And then try to look at the highlighted language for seven, eight and nine and see if you can look
at the connection.
See if you can see the connection to the answer choice which is highlighted in black.
Right for like, for example, number seven, a subjective definition of antisocial behavior.
The official definition says that antisocial behavior.
So antisocial behavior.
The answer is definition.
Right now.
It says here the official and it says what the legal definition is also widely inclusive.
The legal definition.
The legal definition is the synonym for official.
Right.
So it says a subjective definition, but then it says it's the legal definition is also.
Right.
So that's our synonym language.
And you see they're using a semicolon here, which means we have two independent clauses.
So they're taking they're taking language from the part, the first clause and the second clause.
The words legal definition are a synonym for the official comes from the second clause.
But our answer choice that we would put on the blank line is definition, because it's a definition
of antisocial behavior.
Right.
So that's the way that it works.
Look at number eight.
Number eight says, along with swearing, along with swearing and destruction of public or private property
making blank noise is considered antisocial behaviour.
This includes, among other things, foul and abusive language.
The synonym for what?
Swearing?
Threatening behaviour.
Threatening behaviour, shouting, disorderly conduct, vandalism.
All of that is what destruction of public, public or private property?
As a result of drug or mis alcohol use graffiti and noise, which is excessive.
Right.
So we're talking about what making excessive noise.
Noise, which is excessive.
Excessive noise.
Noise which is excessive, excessive noise.
You see how they're playing around with the word order here.
All right.
Those are the kind of things you have to be careful with when it comes to a field of blank question.
You have to watch for that language that's before and after the blank line, because that's what the
answer is going to connect to.
Now, in the upcoming lectures, we're going to do full passage application of the strategy.
So you're going to really see how we scan for the matching sentence and apply the strategy.
Take care and I'll talk to you soon.