PrepTest 114, Section 3, Question 3
The myth persists that in 1492 the Western(433 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(18 more words not shown)
- Ascrub oak forests(4 more words not shown)
- Bslash pine forests(4 more words not shown)
- Cpine forests in(4 more words not shown)
- Dpine forests in(4 more words not shown)
- Epine forests in(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need a forest produced by controlled burning in recent times. I remember several kinds of forest being mentioned, but a familiar tree name won't settle the question. We also need support for that time frame.
Working the answers
- A
Scrub oak is tempting because it appears in the southeastern U.S. examples of forests produced by burning. But the sentence doesn't identify a recent instance. Keep that missing time reference in mind.
- B
Slash pine appears in the same list, with the same support as scrub oak. How would we pick between them? That sends us back to the recent-times requirement: neither example is explicitly tied to recent burning there.
- C
The high-elevation Guatemalan forests are described as largely natural and even prehuman. They aren't the example of recent controlled burning.
- D
These high-elevation Mexican forests belong to that same comparison. The later mention of low tropical elevations in Mexico doesn't turn these higher forests into the example we're seeking.
- ECorrect
Today, Nicaragua’s pine forests grow on land that was cleared and then burned repeatedly (paragraph 3). Today supplies the time frame we were missing. The contrast with higher elevations and the final reference to similar tropical lowlands locate these forests at low elevations. E matches both the burning and the timing.
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