In which sentence about "Life Without Gravity" is the word readapted used correctly?

Question

In which sentence about "Life Without Gravity" is the word readapted used correctly?

A) If you pour milk when in microgravity, the liquid becomes readapted and floats through the air.

B)Despite the hard conditions without gravity, astronauts become readapted to life back home.

C)Astronauts have a hard time becoming readapted the first time they experience life without gravity.

D) Forks and knives can be useful in space, but most foods become too readapted to be eaten with a spoon.

I think it's either B or C. Which one is correct?

Answer 1

B is definitely the correct choice here. As Terrence noted, pay close attention to context clues in each of the sentences. In sentence B, those clues are in phrases such as "life back home." "BACK" is the keyword here, which makes sense in context anyway, because we know that astronauts start life on Earth before traveling into space and "back" again.

 

Sentence C would have made sense had it read: "Astronauts have a hard time adapting the first time they experience life without gravity." Instead, it uses "readapted," which directly contradicts the phrase "the first time." Since the prefix "re" tells us that a specific action has ALREADY been completed at least once in the past (think of words such as: return, rewrite, rerun, rethink, etc...), it will NOT be used referring to someone or something's very first time.

Answer 2

You are correct.  And "readapted" suggests that the astronauts were once adapted.  Thus C would also be incorrect: they would become adapted  when they first experience life without gravity.  On the other hand, they once were adapted to life back home, and later became readapted: thus B would be correct.