PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 5
The career of trumpeter Miles Davis was one(460 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(24 more words not shown)
- AThe producer of(23 more words not shown)
- BAn actor digresses(20 more words not shown)
- CA conductor rehearses(15 more words not shown)
- DAn artist has(18 more words not shown)
- EA teacher has(27 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What are we matching? Davis has musicians improvise from some starting material, then builds a finished recording from the resulting tape. Our rough prediction is: gather source material, then edit and assemble it into a new work.
Working the answers
- A
The producer supplies a framework and lets others create something. That's a promising beginning, but where is the later editing? Nobody assembles the resulting scripts into a new piece.
- B
The actor improvises during a performance. Davis's process includes another step: building the final recording from the material afterward. Improvisation alone doesn't match that.
- C
This is closer because separate parts are brought together. But these are sections rehearsing an existing piece, not contributors creating material that someone later edits into a new work. Keep it beside D and compare what each preserves.
- DCorrect
The assigned theme gives the photographers a starting framework, like the musicians' base script. They create the source material; the artist then assembles it into a collage. This improves on C by preserving the contributors' creative freedom as well as the later assembly. Both stages of Davis's method are here.
- E
The teacher selects the best essays, but submits them as essays. That's choosing completed works, not taking pieces of the source material and combining them into a new one.
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