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jasonlulu_2000 · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 879

One night in 1937, news was "________" between the prison cells that this movie star was killed in an accident.
A. introduced B. telegraphed C. announced D. received

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Bob S. · Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal

jasonlulu_2000 · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 879

since "telegraph" means " by electrical or radio signals".

How could this be done in a prison cell?

Could you give me a detailed reason?

Thanks.

Bob S. · Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal

You can start by process of elimination, that is, what doesn't fit. You introduce to, announce to, and receive from, but not between. So that leaves telegraph. But how does that fit?
Yes, telegraph literally means "by electrical or radio signals", but it is also used figuratively to imply sending a message (verbally or non-verbally {when a guy buys a girl a drink at a bar, he is non-verbally telegraphing his intentions to her}) between two points.
If you imagine jail cells, you think of them in a row down a hall in a jailhouse. So any gossip or message would be sent from one cell to its adjacent cell to the next cell and so on. Also if you imagine a telegraph, you think of a wire running from telegraph pole to telegraph pole all the way to the horizon. So the news of the actors death would run from cell to cell just as a telegraph message runs from pole to pole or between poles.
Does that help?