LR Drill Set 6, Question 1
Tina: The desire for wealth is the strongest(62 more words not shown)
Tina and Ellen disagree about(1 more words not shown)
- Athere are other(14 more words not shown)
- Bthe only purpose(10 more words not shown)
- Cthe desire to(17 more words not shown)
- Dtechnological innovation is(5 more words not shown)
- Ecuriosity is sometimes(12 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Money can motivate invention. Does that put it ahead of every other motive?
Tina thinks it does. She calls the desire for wealth the strongest stimulant to technological innovation and points to hoping to get rich and fearing poverty. I can imagine money motivating someone to develop a successful product. But what about curiosity, recognition, or wanting to improve people's lives? Tina's confidence doesn't supply evidence that money outranks all those possibilities.
Ellen's response makes wealth part of a broader desire to secure advantages. What kinds of advantages? Status might be one example, although Ellen doesn't specify one. Her essential point comes next: other forms of that desire motivate innovation just as strongly.
What we’re looking for
For the disagreement question, keep the strength of the motives in view. Ellen doesn't deny that wealth motivates inventors, and Tina needn't deny every weaker motive exists. They clash over whether other motives can be just as strong as the desire for wealth. We need a claim one accepts and the other rejects, not just a topic either speaker mentions.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Ellen explicitly says other motives are equally strong. Tina presents wealth as the strongest motive and contrasts the money-related hopes and fears with curiosity. A captures that conflict: are there other motives as strong as the desire for wealth? Ellen says yes; Tina's account says no. They needn't disagree about whether financial rewards matter at all.
- B
This concerns the purpose of gaining wealth, rather than the relative power of motives for innovation. Ellen places wealth within a broader desire for advantage, but Tina doesn't explain all the reasons someone might want money. We cannot assign opposite views on an exclusive claim about the purpose of wealth from their disagreement about innovation.
- C
Tina does mention fear of poverty, but neither speaker clearly gives this specific comparison between that fear and the broader desire to secure advantages. Ellen treats gaining wealth as one expression of the broader desire; she doesn't rank avoiding poverty separately against it. Related language is not enough to establish the particular disagreement C states.
- D
Whether people appreciate technological innovation is different from what motivates its creators. Neither speaker describes the public's reaction to technology. They could agree that innovations are appreciated and still disagree completely about which motive drives inventors most strongly.
- E
Tina contrasts curiosity with financial motivation, but Ellen never identifies curiosity as one of the equally strong motives. Perhaps the other motives she has in mind concern status or some different advantage. We shouldn't fill in an example for her and then call it a disagreement the conversation establishes. A stays with Ellen's actual claim that other equally strong motives exist.
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