PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 5
The okapi, a forest mammal of central Africa,(465 more words not shown)
The passage provides information intended(8 more words not shown)
- Awhy zoologists once(5 more words not shown)
- Bwhy zoologists classified(9 more words not shown)
- Cwhy okapis choose(8 more words not shown)
- Dwhy okapis engage(6 more words not shown)
- Ewhy okapis leave(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
For this EXCEPT question, four choices should have information that helps explain the behavior or belief. A proposed explanation counts; it needn't be settled. But being told that something happens isn't the same as being told why it happens.
Working the answers
- A
Infrequent captures led some zoologists to think okapis were rare. That explains the belief; the later account of camouflage and habits explains why encounters were uncommon.
- B
Their skin-covered horns, two-lobed canine teeth, and long prehensile tongue support placing them in the giraffe family. We get the actual anatomical reasons.
- C
Protection from predators and competition with animals that graze the edges more efficiently are both offered as possibilities. Their tentative status doesn't make them disappear as proposed explanations.
- D
The end of paragraph 3 ties solitary foraging to sampling different plants and the distribution of their food. That's the explanation given.
- ECorrect
We know they leave preferred foliage behind and move on to other leaves. But why do that when a favorite food is still plentiful? We aren't told. A nutritional advantage might be a plausible guess, but it would be our addition. Reporting the sampling behavior doesn't explain its cause.
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