LR Drill Set 10, Question 4
Pictures drawn by blind children employ the same(47 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(8 more words not shown)
- ASighted children learn(11 more words not shown)
- BOne can learn(11 more words not shown)
- CThe sense of(10 more words not shown)
- DSome children acquire(11 more words not shown)
- EThe ability to(16 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Maybe they learned what the objects feel like.
At first, we might wonder whether the blind children once had sight and remember what the objects look like. The second sentence rules that explanation out for some of them: children who have been blind since birth use the same drawing conventions too. Those children have never seen the objects.
But sight isn't the only sense.
A child could handle a water bottle and learn something about its shape by touch. That's an example of how another sense might help, not proof that touch is the particular method every child used here.
What we’re looking for
The passage says drawing ability is acquired through the senses. Put that together with children who acquire the ability without ever having sight: some sense other than sight must be able to do the work. The inference question should reward that modest conclusion. We don't need to identify the specific sense, describe a teaching method, or decide how sighted children learn.
Working the answers
- A
The evidence about blind children establishes that another route is available. It doesn't establish that sighted children use that route. Sighted children might learn the conventions by looking at objects or pictures. We can't assign them the same method just because the finished drawings share conventions.
- B
Written or verbal instruction could be one way to learn, but no instruction is described. Learning through senses doesn't automatically mean being taught through words. A child might learn from handling an object rather than being told how to draw it. B specifies a method beyond the information given.
- C
We know sight isn't required: children without it can learn to draw. That doesn't establish that sight can't be enough. There might be more than one way to acquire a skill, with sight providing one route and another sense providing another. Showing an alternative route doesn't tell us that the first route is insufficient.
- D
This adds a timeline. The passage doesn't say whether children gain drawing ability before, during, or after mastering the conventions. The facts concern what sensory routes are available, not the order in which particular abilities develop.
- ECorrect
Some children who have never had sight nevertheless acquire the ability to draw objects, and we are told that this ability is acquired through the senses. Their route must therefore involve a sense or senses other than sight.
The answer leaves open which senses do the work, just as the passage does. It also leaves sighted children free to learn through sight. We only need the alternative route established by the children who never had that option.
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