PrepTest 103, Section 4, Question 16
Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies(454 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(23 more words not shown)
- AA physics teacher(12 more words not shown)
- BAn astronomer provides(7 more words not shown)
- CA cook revises(13 more words not shown)
- DA doctor prescribes(11 more words not shown)
- EA microbiologist sets(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Give the team's account a fair hearing, then question whether it fits the facts. That's the writer's approach. What about the Gulf, where the same alga doesn't accompany a similar disaster? What about deaths beginning before the bloom?
What we’re looking for
The writer can accept the team's observations and still reject its conclusion. We need an analogy that preserves that relationship.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The student's data match the team's reported observations, and the teacher questions what the student concludes from them. That is a compact version of our prediction: accepting the information doesn't require accepting the proposed explanation.
- B
Additional observations sound right, but “support” goes the wrong way. The Gulf comparison and timing problem undermine the team's explanation. This astronomer uses new information to help the theory instead.
- C
Replacing ingredients isn't analogous to accepting findings while challenging the conclusion drawn from them. The problem isn't that this choice concerns cooking; it's that the cook's action doesn't match the writer's evaluation of an explanation.
- D
Misdiagnosis is tempting, but where is our prescription? The writer doesn't propose a cleanup or treatment to save the dolphins. The task is explaining what happened, not recommending a remedy.
- E
The writer isn't repeating the research. Presenting other observations that challenge a conclusion is different from trying to replicate the experiment that produced it.
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