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Atticus Finch
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Re: Q11
I think you started the thread, thanks!
When they ask us about the function of a paragraph, the topic sentence of the paragraph is usually a great place to look for a prephrase.
If they ask us about the function of a detail, then you check the "bookend" sentences, to see if the detail is connected to a bigger point being make before or after the detail.
This question stem is sort of a hybrid, since they're asking us about the purpose of the first two sentences of the 2nd paragraph.
What is the overall function of the 2nd paragraph?
it discusses in detail how E innovated using parallel computing in order to model oil flow
What are the bookend sentences around the two they're asking us about?
COMING FROM - "oil field calculations are extremely demanding; we previously had to rely on supercomputers and even they were too slow"
LEADING INTO - "In order to solve this problem, E designed ..."
So a good prephrase would be something like, "These two sentences help to explain why oil field modeling is such a complicated problem that innovating something faster than a supercomputer was necessary"
(A) What? E's work challenges the paradigm of using ONE supercomputer. These two sentences are about oil flow, not computer paradigms.
(B) Maybe. They help explain why modeling oil flow is a very complex situation. And the complexity is the reason supercomputers have a hard time handling predictions.
(C) This isn't a network design. We're just talking about what's involved in modeling oil flow.
(D) The oil flow description is a "mathematical model"?
(E) This isn't an example of a paradigm shift, since the paradigm shift is when E starts to solve this problem using parallel computing (later in the passage).
I guess we'd have to come home to (B). It reinforces the prior bookend, that supercomputers were too slow and inefficient to predict these complex movements.
And it reinforces the fact that lines 29-30 are referring to these sentences as "this PROBLEM".
Hope this helps.
When they ask us about the function of a paragraph, the topic sentence of the paragraph is usually a great place to look for a prephrase.
If they ask us about the function of a detail, then you check the "bookend" sentences, to see if the detail is connected to a bigger point being make before or after the detail.
This question stem is sort of a hybrid, since they're asking us about the purpose of the first two sentences of the 2nd paragraph.
What is the overall function of the 2nd paragraph?
it discusses in detail how E innovated using parallel computing in order to model oil flow
What are the bookend sentences around the two they're asking us about?
COMING FROM - "oil field calculations are extremely demanding; we previously had to rely on supercomputers and even they were too slow"
LEADING INTO - "In order to solve this problem, E designed ..."
So a good prephrase would be something like, "These two sentences help to explain why oil field modeling is such a complicated problem that innovating something faster than a supercomputer was necessary"
(A) What? E's work challenges the paradigm of using ONE supercomputer. These two sentences are about oil flow, not computer paradigms.
(B) Maybe. They help explain why modeling oil flow is a very complex situation. And the complexity is the reason supercomputers have a hard time handling predictions.
(C) This isn't a network design. We're just talking about what's involved in modeling oil flow.
(D) The oil flow description is a "mathematical model"?
(E) This isn't an example of a paradigm shift, since the paradigm shift is when E starts to solve this problem using parallel computing (later in the passage).
I guess we'd have to come home to (B). It reinforces the prior bookend, that supercomputers were too slow and inefficient to predict these complex movements.
And it reinforces the fact that lines 29-30 are referring to these sentences as "this PROBLEM".
Hope this helps.
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