1 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:01,220 All right. 2 00:00:01,220 --> 00:00:04,610 It's time for a review of the field. 3 00:00:04,610 --> 00:00:05,540 The blink question. 4 00:00:05,540 --> 00:00:14,240 Now, the field of blank question is one of the easier questions on the reading test for the Alps exam. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,320 And so you really, really want to do well when it comes to this question. 6 00:00:18,770 --> 00:00:19,550 I'm going to. 7 00:00:19,580 --> 00:00:24,800 In this lecture, I'm going to give you a really good breakdown of how to attack this question. 8 00:00:24,980 --> 00:00:27,440 So let's go ahead and get into the strategy. 9 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:34,400 So with the fill the blank question, just as a review, this question is just requiring you to fill 10 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,600 in a missing word. 11 00:00:36,050 --> 00:00:36,440 Right. 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,750 There's a missing word in the sentence. 13 00:00:39,350 --> 00:00:45,650 And so you have to examine the sentence and then you have to number to scan. 14 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:52,120 You have to pull out the keywords in the question, then go to the passage and you have to scan for 15 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,580 the matching sentence to that question. 16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:01,540 Then you have to read that sentence and pull out what word goes on the blank line. 17 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:10,180 Now, as you see in the example here to the right, you'll see that it's possible to have two blank 18 00:01:10,180 --> 00:01:12,670 lines like number 33 and number 34. 19 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:15,670 You have two blank lines within one question. 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,660 And for number 35, you have two blank lines within one question. 21 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:22,300 So you have to have two words there. 22 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,300 So clearly this is from reading passage number three. 23 00:01:25,870 --> 00:01:26,440 Right. 24 00:01:27,310 --> 00:01:32,110 But the feel of the blank question is really, really straightforward, really straightforward. 25 00:01:32,110 --> 00:01:36,340 And so now I'm going to go over some of the more specific strategy. 26 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:38,890 Well, first, let's get into some helpful information. 27 00:01:39,940 --> 00:01:42,040 You know that this question goes in order. 28 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:43,930 I've mentioned it before. 29 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:45,980 This is a question type that goes in one. 30 00:01:46,010 --> 00:01:47,100 It goes in order. 31 00:01:47,110 --> 00:01:51,760 That means that after number five, you'll find number six and before number five, you'll find number 32 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,300 four. 33 00:01:52,660 --> 00:01:54,670 This is a great question to complete. 34 00:01:54,670 --> 00:02:01,300 First, a really, really good question to do first and the question set, because it's easier to do 35 00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:08,170 and it will allow for you to be able to really get a good handle on what the passage is talking about 36 00:02:08,170 --> 00:02:12,130 when you have to go back and do those questions that don't go in order. 37 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:16,600 Now, 80% of the answers are located in one sentence. 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,170 What that means is there's one sentence from the passage. 39 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:26,410 And and also you have the question now, I will say this. 40 00:02:26,410 --> 00:02:33,220 That percentage of of the answer being located in one sentence is slowly dropping down more and more 41 00:02:33,220 --> 00:02:38,800 and more as we're getting as the test is progressing forward, the real exam. 42 00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:48,820 Now they're trying to really create a compound sentence, meaning that they're really taking two sentences 43 00:02:48,820 --> 00:02:55,060 now two sentences and using two sentences from the passage to create one question. 44 00:02:55,510 --> 00:02:57,400 One one sentence in a question. 45 00:02:58,030 --> 00:03:02,260 And so you have to be aware that that is a trend. 46 00:03:02,260 --> 00:03:02,580 Right. 47 00:03:02,590 --> 00:03:08,230 One of the things that I try to make sure that I pay attention to and advise you on are the trends that 48 00:03:08,230 --> 00:03:10,450 are happening with the with the exam. 49 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:16,870 And one of those trends is that there really are using more and more are using two sentences to create 50 00:03:17,770 --> 00:03:18,610 a question. 51 00:03:18,610 --> 00:03:25,270 So they'll take maybe some information from sentence number three in paragraph number two and some information 52 00:03:25,270 --> 00:03:31,330 from sentence number four and paragraph number to take that take that information together and create 53 00:03:31,330 --> 00:03:32,530 one question. 54 00:03:34,270 --> 00:03:40,840 And so a lot of the question language might come from sentence number three, and then the answer will 55 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,960 be located in sentence number four. 56 00:03:42,970 --> 00:03:46,630 So just be aware of that, because it's happening more and more. 57 00:03:51,050 --> 00:03:55,580 Now let's go ahead and take a look at the application of the question strategy. 58 00:03:55,820 --> 00:04:00,920 So here I put together the questions and the matching package language. 59 00:04:01,070 --> 00:04:07,650 So when you're talking about strategy, you look over to the right hand side and you'll see that the 60 00:04:07,650 --> 00:04:10,760 this answering strategy, you first want to examine the questions. 61 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,050 Look at the questions. 62 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:17,180 I think it's a good idea to try to first identify which question is easier to do first. 63 00:04:17,690 --> 00:04:18,050 Right. 64 00:04:18,110 --> 00:04:20,780 Some questions have very specific language. 65 00:04:21,570 --> 00:04:23,340 Or specific details. 66 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,870 When you're looking at these questions, there really is this one. 67 00:04:27,870 --> 00:04:28,860 Number three. 68 00:04:29,310 --> 00:04:32,760 Number three, I think, is actually the easiest one to start with first. 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,620 We don't see one into above this, but number three mentions 26 children. 70 00:04:38,190 --> 00:04:38,690 Right. 71 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:41,190 That might be really easy to find. 72 00:04:41,580 --> 00:04:43,080 Really easy to find. 73 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:44,050 Right. 74 00:04:44,070 --> 00:04:46,620 And I know number four and five would be below that. 75 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:48,810 And number is two and one would be above that. 76 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,330 So you want to examine the question, identify the keywords, right? 77 00:04:56,330 --> 00:04:58,040 Identify the keywords in the question. 78 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:05,480 So, you know, for a number three, 26 children and the language I want to pay attention to that's 79 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,730 going to connect to the answer is the word different? 80 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:09,590 Right. 81 00:05:09,590 --> 00:05:13,400 And then for number four, the language that's going to connect to the answer is older. 82 00:05:14,930 --> 00:05:19,280 And for number five, we have equal number of new and blank. 83 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:24,620 So whatever this answer is for number five, it will connect to the word new, right, connect to the 84 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:25,460 word new. 85 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:31,700 So I think it's really important for you to really recognize the language that's coming before or after 86 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:37,160 the blank line, because your answer choice will always connect to that language. 87 00:05:37,910 --> 00:05:42,650 So when I'm looking at a sentence, what I'm looking at is a matching sentence in the passage. 88 00:05:43,010 --> 00:05:45,920 I'm not trying to comprehend that entire sentence. 89 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,380 I'm trying to locate the language that's coming before or after the blank line, because I know that's 90 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:53,090 what my answer is going to point to. 91 00:05:53,540 --> 00:05:58,100 So many, so many students waste time and get caught up in trying to. 92 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:03,650 I need to understand the entire sentence and comprehend the entire sentence for a fill the blank question. 93 00:06:03,650 --> 00:06:04,970 That's not necessary. 94 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:09,890 Once you find the matching, once you find the matching sentence, look at it. 95 00:06:10,190 --> 00:06:14,870 Find the language that comes before and after the blank line and you'll find the answer choice. 96 00:06:16,490 --> 00:06:19,400 So identify the key words. 97 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,140 Start with the easiest question. 98 00:06:21,290 --> 00:06:25,370 Scan the passage for matching language and then we on to apply the strategy. 99 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:34,310 So here for number three, right, we see it right here and it says so. 100 00:06:34,970 --> 00:06:42,680 So we start by conducting 26 in-home ethnography in three markets across the United States. 101 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:44,060 Right. 102 00:06:44,060 --> 00:06:46,100 So our answer is really, really clear. 103 00:06:46,430 --> 00:06:49,370 We see 26, right. 104 00:06:49,370 --> 00:06:58,400 And it says in three markets in three is synonym for different in three markets here it says in three 105 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,350 markets across the United States. 106 00:07:00,350 --> 00:07:08,870 So the word order is a little bit different because in the question it says from different us and here 107 00:07:08,870 --> 00:07:14,420 it says in three markets across the United States instead of saying in three US markets. 108 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:22,100 So that's what I mean by reordering the language sentence reordering, right sentence reordering. 109 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,080 But the answer is markets. 110 00:07:27,030 --> 00:07:29,720 Now number four is really straight forward. 111 00:07:29,730 --> 00:07:31,380 Not going to spend a lot of time on it. 112 00:07:31,710 --> 00:07:38,760 Some children have older here says because previous research has shown the effects of older siblings. 113 00:07:39,090 --> 00:07:43,650 Answers number four and number five is really straightforward also. 114 00:07:44,850 --> 00:07:50,850 Equal number of new and experienced players in order to understand both experienced and new. 115 00:07:51,970 --> 00:07:52,570 Right. 116 00:07:54,070 --> 00:07:55,330 We divide it. 117 00:07:56,790 --> 00:07:59,190 We divided the sample, right? 118 00:07:59,310 --> 00:08:05,700 So we have an equal number of experience and knew again, all they did was switch up the word order. 119 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:07,560 New and new and experienced. 120 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,910 Experienced and new. 121 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,470 Let's go ahead and look at another example. 122 00:08:18,530 --> 00:08:20,660 Right here for number 12. 123 00:08:22,070 --> 00:08:31,070 It says the track, the track that took Bingham down the rhumba valley had been created for the transportation 124 00:08:31,070 --> 00:08:37,010 of my aunt's is going to connect to what language transportation of. 125 00:08:38,980 --> 00:08:46,710 When Bingham and his team set off down the rumba in late July, they had an advantage over travelers 126 00:08:46,710 --> 00:08:47,770 who had preceded them. 127 00:08:49,510 --> 00:08:50,110 Right. 128 00:08:50,290 --> 00:08:57,730 A track had recently been blasted down the Valley Canyon to enable rubber to be brought up by mules 129 00:08:57,730 --> 00:09:00,700 and from by mules from the jungle. 130 00:09:02,020 --> 00:09:06,220 So it had been created for the transportation of rubber. 131 00:09:07,510 --> 00:09:07,910 Right. 132 00:09:07,930 --> 00:09:10,930 Transportation is what brought up by mules. 133 00:09:11,780 --> 00:09:15,260 Brought up by mules is a synonym for transportation. 134 00:09:17,390 --> 00:09:19,010 And what are they transporting? 135 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,900 They are transporting rubber. 136 00:09:22,250 --> 00:09:25,460 Again, we are switching up the word order. 137 00:09:25,850 --> 00:09:32,360 Here it says, Transportation of rubber is the answer in the passage that says rubber to be brought 138 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,620 up by mules. 139 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:34,760 Right. 140 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,080 That is that is a switch in the in the word order. 141 00:09:39,410 --> 00:09:44,540 But I know my my know my answer choice is connected to transportation. 142 00:09:45,050 --> 00:09:54,980 And then number 13 is in paragraph number C, Bingham found out about the ruins of Machu Picchu from 143 00:09:54,980 --> 00:09:59,450 a blank in the Yoruba Yoruba Valley. 144 00:09:59,450 --> 00:09:59,840 I'm sorry. 145 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:01,400 This Yoruba valley. 146 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:11,110 His companion showed no interest in accompanying him up the nearby hill to see some ruins that a local 147 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:14,590 farmer had told him about the night before. 148 00:10:15,980 --> 00:10:16,310 Right. 149 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:19,610 So you found out about the ruins from a farmer. 150 00:10:20,150 --> 00:10:22,490 You have to put the answer as farmer. 151 00:10:23,350 --> 00:10:24,240 Look at the directions. 152 00:10:24,250 --> 00:10:25,630 That's why directions are important. 153 00:10:25,660 --> 00:10:26,200 Directions? 154 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:26,630 Say what? 155 00:10:26,650 --> 00:10:27,910 One word only. 156 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:32,560 So on your answer sheet, if you write local farmer, you are wrong. 157 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,640 You are marked wrong, right? 158 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,710 Because you did not read the directions. 159 00:10:43,250 --> 00:10:43,610 All right. 160 00:10:43,610 --> 00:10:45,230 Here is another example. 161 00:10:49,860 --> 00:10:58,050 Early humans use a material called Blank to make the sharp points from our earliest origins. 162 00:10:59,490 --> 00:11:01,560 Man has been making the use of glass. 163 00:11:04,540 --> 00:11:05,170 Right. 164 00:11:06,910 --> 00:11:10,330 Historians have discovered that a type of natural glass. 165 00:11:11,650 --> 00:11:19,090 A of natural glass obsidian formed in places such as the mouth of the volcano as a result of the intense 166 00:11:19,090 --> 00:11:24,760 heat and melting sand was first used as tips for spears. 167 00:11:25,750 --> 00:11:26,110 Right. 168 00:11:26,110 --> 00:11:29,590 So we have numbers one and two in one sentence together. 169 00:11:32,070 --> 00:11:36,660 Earliest humans use a material called what Obsidian? 170 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,530 A material called Obsidian to make sharp points of their spears. 171 00:11:43,740 --> 00:11:44,760 Tips. 172 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,540 Tips. 173 00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:46,590 Sharp Points. 174 00:11:46,590 --> 00:11:47,220 Tips. 175 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:48,390 Sharp points. 176 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:52,480 All right. 177 00:11:52,870 --> 00:11:54,490 And number three. 178 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,870 4000 B.C. blank made of stone. 179 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:00,420 All right. 180 00:12:01,020 --> 00:12:08,400 So it says archaeologists have even found evidence of man made glass, which dates back to 4000 B.C.. 181 00:12:08,670 --> 00:12:13,680 This took the form of a of glazes used for coating stone. 182 00:12:14,670 --> 00:12:17,190 Used for coating stone beads. 183 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:18,030 Right. 184 00:12:18,030 --> 00:12:19,230 So the beads. 185 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:20,300 Right. 186 00:12:20,430 --> 00:12:22,590 The beads are made of stone. 187 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:24,890 The beads are made of stone. 188 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:27,180 That means the answer number three is beads. 189 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:31,100 So you see the way this works. 190 00:12:31,370 --> 00:12:33,170 You're connecting language. 191 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:38,750 You're connecting answer choices to language that's located before or after the blank line. 192 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:46,030 Right. 193 00:12:47,020 --> 00:12:49,300 And here you can look at this one also. 194 00:12:49,540 --> 00:12:50,560 Right for this one. 195 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:54,400 Just stop just really stop the tape for a second. 196 00:12:54,910 --> 00:12:59,050 Stop the lecture for a second and look at seven, eight and nine. 197 00:12:59,050 --> 00:13:00,460 Read the question for seven. 198 00:13:00,460 --> 00:13:01,440 Read the question for eight. 199 00:13:01,460 --> 00:13:02,860 Read the question for nine. 200 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:08,350 And then try to look at the highlighted language for seven, eight and nine and see if you can look 201 00:13:08,350 --> 00:13:09,790 at the connection. 202 00:13:10,270 --> 00:13:14,740 See if you can see the connection to the answer choice which is highlighted in black. 203 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:22,670 Right for like, for example, number seven, a subjective definition of antisocial behavior. 204 00:13:22,910 --> 00:13:27,590 The official definition says that antisocial behavior. 205 00:13:27,590 --> 00:13:29,810 So antisocial behavior. 206 00:13:29,930 --> 00:13:31,670 The answer is definition. 207 00:13:37,070 --> 00:13:37,700 Right now. 208 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:44,570 It says here the official and it says what the legal definition is also widely inclusive. 209 00:13:45,590 --> 00:13:46,970 The legal definition. 210 00:13:46,970 --> 00:13:50,960 The legal definition is the synonym for official. 211 00:13:51,830 --> 00:13:52,370 Right. 212 00:13:52,550 --> 00:13:57,950 So it says a subjective definition, but then it says it's the legal definition is also. 213 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:58,900 Right. 214 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:00,740 So that's our synonym language. 215 00:14:01,130 --> 00:14:06,800 And you see they're using a semicolon here, which means we have two independent clauses. 216 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:12,620 So they're taking they're taking language from the part, the first clause and the second clause. 217 00:14:12,890 --> 00:14:17,990 The words legal definition are a synonym for the official comes from the second clause. 218 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:23,690 But our answer choice that we would put on the blank line is definition, because it's a definition 219 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,730 of antisocial behavior. 220 00:14:26,550 --> 00:14:27,150 Right. 221 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:29,400 So that's the way that it works. 222 00:14:32,310 --> 00:14:33,420 Look at number eight. 223 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:43,230 Number eight says, along with swearing, along with swearing and destruction of public or private property 224 00:14:43,260 --> 00:14:47,370 making blank noise is considered antisocial behaviour. 225 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:53,010 This includes, among other things, foul and abusive language. 226 00:14:53,790 --> 00:14:55,020 The synonym for what? 227 00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:55,980 Swearing? 228 00:14:57,010 --> 00:14:58,600 Threatening behaviour. 229 00:15:00,410 --> 00:15:05,480 Threatening behaviour, shouting, disorderly conduct, vandalism. 230 00:15:06,410 --> 00:15:10,250 All of that is what destruction of public, public or private property? 231 00:15:12,180 --> 00:15:18,060 As a result of drug or mis alcohol use graffiti and noise, which is excessive. 232 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:20,410 Right. 233 00:15:20,410 --> 00:15:24,400 So we're talking about what making excessive noise. 234 00:15:24,850 --> 00:15:26,680 Noise, which is excessive. 235 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,090 Excessive noise. 236 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,270 Noise which is excessive, excessive noise. 237 00:15:31,630 --> 00:15:33,940 You see how they're playing around with the word order here. 238 00:15:35,970 --> 00:15:36,240 All right. 239 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:41,490 Those are the kind of things you have to be careful with when it comes to a field of blank question. 240 00:15:41,670 --> 00:15:45,780 You have to watch for that language that's before and after the blank line, because that's what the 241 00:15:45,780 --> 00:15:47,280 answer is going to connect to. 242 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:52,620 Now, in the upcoming lectures, we're going to do full passage application of the strategy. 243 00:15:52,860 --> 00:15:59,220 So you're going to really see how we scan for the matching sentence and apply the strategy. 244 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,830 Take care and I'll talk to you soon.