PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 24
In The Dynamics of Apocalypse, John Lowe attempts(441 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(19 more words not shown)
- AA person assumes(26 more words not shown)
- BA person assumes(22 more words not shown)
- CA person assumes(22 more words not shown)
- DA person assumes(26 more words not shown)
- EA person assumes(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Lowe assumes that once people stopped building new monuments, they stopped occupying the site. But couldn't they keep living there without adding anything new? That's the relationship we need to match: no new additions, therefore the existing thing is gone.
Working the answers
- A
This offers a cause of a shortage: bad weather reduced the supply of produce. It doesn't infer that something already present disappeared because people stopped adding to it.
- B
Unfamiliar titles are treated as evidence that the films are foreign. Nothing has stopped being added, so it doesn't match Lowe's inference.
- C
A changed menu supposedly shows a change in ownership. Lowe isn't saying changed monuments reveal new residents; he's treating the end of construction as the end of occupation.
- D
A new name supposedly means the corporation was sold. Again, a change in an existing feature replaces the crucial absence of new additions.
- ECorrect
The friend has stopped buying new stamps, but she could still own all her old ones. Likewise, the Mayans could have stopped adding monuments while continuing to live in the city. In each case, stopping the additions is mistaken for evidence that the collection is no longer owned or the settlement is no longer occupied.
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