PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 7
Most office workers assume that the messages they(434 more words not shown)
The author's primary purpose in(5 more words not shown)
- Ademonstrate that the(12 more words not shown)
- Bcompare the legal(10 more words not shown)
- Cdraw an extended(16 more words not shown)
- Dillustrate the complexities(10 more words not shown)
- Eexplain why the(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The writer is showing us a complicated problem. We see public access concerns, an employer's successful defense of monitoring, and gaps in legal and practical protections. That gives us our purpose: explain what makes workplace email privacy difficult, rather than argue for one comprehensive solution.
Working the answers
- A
Unclear email rules don't establish that a previously protected right has been eroded by technology. The writer doesn't make that historical argument.
- B
Both sectors appear, but comparing their legal status isn't the overall purpose. They illustrate different parts of the larger privacy problem. The final discussion of interception, reasonable expectations, and encryption extends beyond that comparison.
- C
Calls and face-to-face conversations introduce workers' assumption at the start. We don't then follow an extended analogy between those communications and email.
- DCorrect
“Illustrate the complexities” captures the job of these different examples and qualifications: they show why workplace email privacy has no simple general answer.
- E
We're told about uncertainty and some court rulings. We aren't given an explanation of why courts have been unable to settle the entire issue.
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