PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 11
In many bilingual communities of Puerto Rican Americans(435 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(16 more words not shown)
- AResearch revealing that(19 more words not shown)
- BRelevant research conducted(22 more words not shown)
- CResearch conducted prior(27 more words not shown)
- DResearch suggests that(19 more words not shown)
- EResearch suggests that(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This is an open inference question, so I don't have one narrow prediction. Keep the two findings straight: students responded to situational factors; the family sometimes used Spanish for emphasis despite an unchanged situation. Which choice follows from what we actually learned?
Working the answers
- A
The family study adds a limit to the situational explanation. It doesn't show that the students' answers were wrong. Speakers sometimes missing their own switches also doesn't, by itself, discredit that earlier study.
- B
No prior research is described as predicting answers different from the students' answers. That comparison isn't supplied.
- C
We aren't told what most researchers believed before the family study. This adds a claim about their expectations that we have no evidence for.
- D
The family didn't notice some switches. That is different from people usually being unaware of the situational factors affecting them. D changes both what they're unaware of and how widely that unawareness applies.
- ECorrect
The family thought it used English only, but the recordings sometimes included Spanish even though the situation had not changed (paragraph 3). The family explained that Spanish as emphasizing intimacy or humor. E restates this finding: at home, the occasional switching serves a rhetorical purpose. We don't need to extend it to other families or invent another cause.
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