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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 136 · Section 1 · Question 2

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
A phrase means whatever the nearby sentences point back to, not its dictionary meaning.
The basic logic
Find the quoted phrase, then look backward. It usually summarizes a list the author already gave. Match the answer to that earlier list, and make sure it is the costs that disappear, not costs that remain.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “this”
  • “such”
  • “these”
  • “that”

Playground logic

In Priya's passage, 'entire piles of costs' points back to the ice, the coolers, the waiting pitchers and the dumped leftovers from the paragraph before.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Mix-a-Cup Cart (by Priya) →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In the third paragraph, the phrase 'entire piles of costs' most likely refers to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 1, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Go to the quoted phrase and read the sentence before it and the paragraph before that. Ask what list or idea it is summing up. Predict in your own words, then pick the choice that matches the list of things the new model removes. Reject choices naming costs that still exist or that the passage never lists.