Question 140·Medium·Transitions
The museum recently launched a digital archive featuring high-resolution images of its entire collection. ______ the archive includes audio commentaries that provide historical context for each piece.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For transition questions, always read the sentence before and after the blank and first decide the relationship between the ideas: are you adding similar information, showing contrast, giving a cause or result, offering an example, or indicating a condition or alternative? Once you’ve labeled the relationship in simple words (like “adds another benefit” or “shows the opposite”), check each answer choice’s usual function and eliminate any that don’t match that relationship—even if they seem grammatically fine or “sound good.” This logical matching approach is faster and more reliable than guessing based on feel.
Hints
Look at what both parts are saying
Read the part before the blank and the part after the blank. Are they both describing good features of the same thing, or is one opposing or replacing the other?
Classify the relationship
Ask yourself: Is the second part giving a contrast, a different possible result, or simply another detail that goes along with the first sentence?
Check each transition’s meaning
Think about what each option usually signals in writing: one shows an opposite idea, one shows what happens in a different situation, one suggests a replacement, and one adds another similar point. Which type matches this sentence pair?
Step-by-step Explanation
Understand the first idea
Read the first sentence: “The museum recently launched a digital archive featuring high-resolution images of its entire collection.”
This tells us one positive feature of the digital archive: it has high-resolution images of everything in the collection.
Understand the second idea
Now read the clause after the blank: “the archive includes audio commentaries that provide historical context for each piece.”
This describes another positive feature of the same archive: it has audio commentaries that explain the history of each piece.
Decide the logical relationship
Ask: How does the second idea relate to the first?
- It is not an opposite idea; it does not disagree or contrast.
- It is not describing what would happen if something didn't occur.
- It is not a replacement for the first feature.
- It adds another feature to the same thing (the archive).
So we need a transition that shows we are adding more similar, supporting information about the archive.
Match the transition to the relationship
Now match each transition to the relationship you identified:
- A transition that means we are adding another, similar point about the same subject is the best fit.
- The choice that clearly signals “here is one more feature of the archive” is “In addition,”, so A) In addition, is correct.