For transition questions, identify the passage's main claim and determine the exact role of the sentence or clause containing the blank. When a sentence briefly acknowledges a point favoring the other side before returning to its original claim, look for a transition that signals concession rather than simple addition, result, or direct comparison.
Hints
- Hint 1
Find the central claim
Determine whether the passage mainly endorses computational restorations or warns against treating them as direct evidence.
- Hint 2
Read beyond the blank
Consider how the clause about testing the estimates relates to the caution after the semicolon.
- Hint 3
Distinguish concession from contrast
Ask whether testability directly opposes the preceding information or merely acknowledges a limitation to the passage's main caution.
Step-by-step
- Step 1
Identify the main point
The passage cautions that computationally restored images contain estimates based partly on other documents and therefore should not be treated as recovered originals.
- Step 2
Examine the acknowledgment
The final sentence first acknowledges that researchers can test the estimates. After the semicolon, however, the sentence returns to the main caution by emphasizing that the estimates remain interpretations.
- Step 3
Choose the precise relationship
The transition must mark the first clause as a reasonable concession that does not overturn the central warning. “Granted,” establishes exactly this relationship.