PrepTest 109, Section 2, Question 24
By the time Bentham turned his interest to(439 more words not shown)
The author's attitude toward eighteenth-century(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The lawyers helped keep a flawed system in place. Paragraph 3 says reform was frustrated by their “vested interests” and “reverence for tradition and precedent.” That is a criticism of their resistance, not praise for respecting the past.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't offered an account inviting sympathy for their position. Their interests are presented as obstacles to reform.
- BCorrect
The writer identifies how the lawyers obstructed improvement. Critical fits that specific negative judgment.
- C
The lawyers revere tradition. That doesn't mean the writer respects the lawyers. C transfers an attitude to the wrong person.
- D
Scornful suggests contempt or disdain. The writer criticizes the lawyers' role without expressing that stronger attitude toward them.
- E
Ambivalent means having mixed or conflicting feelings. We get criticism here, not a balance of admiration and disapproval.
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