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Hi there.

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In this lecture, I'm going to be going through the strategy application for a sentence completion question.

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This passage is coming from the general exam for Cambridge Book number ten.

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You should have your own copy of Cambridge Book Number ten.

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If you do have your own copy, you are more than welcome to go ahead and do this reading passage before

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I explain the strategy and that way you can check your answers.

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But more importantly and more importantly, for anything that you got wrong, you can see the strategy

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there should have been applied and the reasoning the reasoning why a particular answer was selected.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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So we can see here that we have a sentence completion question and with the sentence completion question.

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Basically, we have to figure out the second part of a sentence is not the same as a field.

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The blank question with the field, the blank question, you're filling in one word, right?

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For a sentence completion question, you have to find the second part of a sentence, right?

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So really is an incomplete sentence.

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The question is the first half of the sentence, the answer choice is A through G are the second halves

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of sentences.

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So when we're doing this, we're going to where our key words are going to come from the questions.

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And so, first of all, that's our that's our first step.

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So I'm going to be highlighting my keywords adding chemicals, adding sawdust, adding brick dust and

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mixing nitroglycerin.

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Right now, I'm not going to, of course, make no bell.

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Make no bell.

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The a key word, because clearly from the questions I can see, the word Nobel is going to appear many,

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many, many times when you're talking about discovering the key words you're looking at, you're looking

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at questions and you're trying to decide what's what are the specific words, the real content words

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that this question is asking about and that that language is always going to be your it's always going

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to be your keywords.

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Right.

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And of course, we have the word found right now.

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When we see the word found found, there are many synonyms for found.

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Discover discovered is is a good word.

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But there's a really good chance that they're going to use synonym language for the word found.

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So my first job when I'm looking at the at the passage and at this point you haven't looked at you haven't

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looked at the passage yet.

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We haven't read the passage.

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We're not going to read through the passage.

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That's not necessary.

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Our first job is to find out where they first start talking about Nobel, and we have to find where

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they start, where they introduced Nobel.

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They're always going to if they're talking about a person, they're going to introduce the person.

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And then after they introduce the person, that's when they're going to talk about what they did and

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how they did it.

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So let's go ahead and go through that process and then we'll we'll find all of our matching answer choices.

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All right.

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So here we have our introduction to Nobel and the Nobel Prize and the Nobel family.

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Right.

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So here we have our introduction to Nobel.

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Earlier, I was highlighting in yellow just these other names.

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Right.

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And I was just doing that for you, just pointing out that there could be very, very well in these

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kind of passages.

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They might talk about two or three different people.

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But I'm looking for when they first start talking about Nobel.

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So this paragraph, this paragraph here, this paragraph introduces us to Nobel.

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They introduce us to Nobel.

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And then my job is to then find out what what know what Nobel found.

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What did he find?

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Right now, here I can see right here, I can see nitroglycerin right here.

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Right.

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But this is just kind of introducing what nitroglycerin what nitroglycerin is.

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It doesn't tell us yet what Nobel found about nitroglycerin.

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They're just introducing what it is.

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Here we see nitroglycerine again.

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Again, they're just talking about nitroglycerine in in general.

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Now, here we get here we get to the meat of it right here.

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Alfred Nobel.

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Now we're talking about him specifically.

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And look here, here, here we have what he did with chemicals.

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Here we have what he did with sawdust and what he found about sawdust.

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Here's what we found about brick dust.

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And then here we find nitroglycerin again.

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Now, it's always safe to assume, even though just like a summary question with the sentence completion

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question, most of the time we say most of the time it goes in order.

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It's not like a field of blank question or yes.

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No, not giving question or short answer question where those are always going to go in order.

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And when I say always, I probably mean like 95% of the time.

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So let's just say 95% of the time, I guess.

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But there we found all of our keyword language.

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And now that we found our keyword language in the different sentences, it's time to go back to the

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question and read the question and then go back to the the the passage sentence and find our find our

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answer very, very quickly.

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Now, of course, when you're doing this on your own, you're going to be going much faster than what

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I'm doing right now because I'm taking the time to stop and explain.

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So Nobel found that adding chemicals.

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What happened when he added chemicals?

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Firstly, he experimented with adding chemicals to nitroglycerin, but because the chemicals require

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huge amounts of resources and energy to wash out, this process was considered to be impractical.

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First, he experimented with adding chemicals, but because the chemicals required huge amounts of resources

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and energy to wash out.

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That's our language right there.

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Require huge amounts of resources and energy to wash out.

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It was impractical.

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So then we look at our answer choices.

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And we have to look at it and we have to decide which answer choice.

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Which answer choice bets.

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Which answer choice best fits that language.

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Which answer choice best fits that language.

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So when we look at it, our answer is clearly going to be see made the process unworkable.

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How do we know the answer is C made the process unworkable?

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Because it tells us very directly.

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It says it require huge amounts of resources and energy to wash out.

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This process was considered to be impractical.

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Considered to be impractical.

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Consider to be

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impractical.

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So we have to remember that the exam is a test of English.

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It's a test of English.

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And they expect you to be able to see that considered to be impractical.

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Is a paraphrasing relationship with made the process unworkable.

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That's the exam.

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That's what the exam is all about.

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So let's go to the next one.

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He found that sawdust, adding sawdust.

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He then tried to use fibrous materials such as sawdust, charcoal or paper to stabilize.

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But here's the here's the answer.

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These combustible materials tended to catch fire when placed near nitroglycerin.

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They tended to catch fire, tended to tells us what happened when they used it.

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So it tended to catch fire.

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What's the synonym answer is f?

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Increase the flammability.

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Flammability is a synonym for what everybody.

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Flammability is a synonym for fire.

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Flammability is a synonym for fire.

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Now, Nobel found that adding brick dust.

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Let's see what it says.

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As an alternative, he added.

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Brick dust, brick dust to tame the explosive as he knew the brick to brick dust would not catch fire.

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Here's our language, however, right the first in the previous question, but previous question reference

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pronoun this process.

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However, they're going to explain the problem.

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Conflict language.

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The brick does reduce the explosive powder.

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It reduced the explosive power of the product.

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Reduce the explosive power.

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Reduce the explosive power.

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So our answer is going to be what a.

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Then let's go ahead and do number 31.

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Nobel found that mixing nitroglycerin with packaging.

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Nobel found that mixing nitroglycerin with packaging.

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That's important also actually with packaging.

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According to one version of how the eventual solution was found, a metal container of nitroglycerin

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sprang a leak and some of the liquids soaked into packaging material that lay around the container.

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Nobel immediately said to work to examine the connection between the two materials and found that when

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the packaging material was mixed with nitroglycerin, it could be pressed into a compact solid.

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It could be thus telling us the result.

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May the process say.

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Right.

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Keep reading everybody this solid.

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We actually in this situation, we'll read the next sentence.

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Right.

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I did it mentally.

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And I should have done I should have done it out loud because I saw that word.

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That means this, which is a reference pronoun.

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So when they say it, it can turn into a solid, this solid.

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So we read that next sentence because we always read the next sentence when we see a reference pronoun.

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This solid retained the explosive power of the liquid, but was entirely safe and reliable.

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Right.

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And that's our answer right there.

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Well, safe and reliable.

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So always be aware of that reference pronoun language because it points to answers, especially when

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the next sentence starts with that reference pronoun language.

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So when we're looking at our correct answers.

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Right.

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We're looking at our correct answers.

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Number 28.

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Number 28 was see?

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Number 29.

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Was F.

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Number 30.

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30 is a and 31.

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31 is e.

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All right.

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So I hope that was very helpful for you in terms of understanding a little bit better on how to do on

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how to do a sentence completion question.

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And for those of you who are studying for the academic exam, the if you want more practice.

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Reading passage.

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Number three, reading passes.

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Number three on the general exam is at the same difficulty level, pretty much at the at the same difficulty

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level as reading passages one and two on the academic exam.

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And for those of you who are doing the general exam, you can always get extra practice by doing reading

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passages one and two on the academic exam because they're at the same difficulty level as your reading

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passes, number three.

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So I just wanted to point out that connection for you and how this lecture that I'm doing right now

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is actually helpful for both.

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All right.

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So thanks a lot.

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Have a great day and I'll talk to you soon.