PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 9
In many bilingual communities of Puerto Rican Americans(435 more words not shown)
The primary function of the(7 more words not shown)
- Aconsider a general(17 more words not shown)
- Bresolve an apparent(13 more words not shown)
- Cshow that there(16 more words not shown)
- Dreport some of(15 more words not shown)
- Eshow that some(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The third paragraph begins with the limit: situational factors don't explain all code-switching. Then the family shows switching without a change in situation. I'd predict that the paragraph explains an exception to the account we just developed.
Working the answers
- A
We do get a different kind of explanation, which makes this tempting. But it isn't offered as a different general account of code-switching. It explains cases left over by the situational account. The opening already includes both kinds of factors.
- B
There is no conflict to resolve. Situation can explain some switching while rhetorical aims explain other switching.
- CCorrect
Paragraph 3 says situational factors cannot explain every instance of code-switching. The family then illustrates that limit: occasional Spanish appears despite unchanged circumstances. C captures how this paragraph builds on the preceding one.
- D
This really does happen: we hear about a family in another community. But why report those observations? To show switching the preceding account doesn't explain. D describes the example without its larger job.
- E
Some switches are unconscious, but that detail isn't the paragraph's main purpose. Even if the family had noticed every switch, its use of Spanish where the situation predicts English only would still show the limit we need to explain.
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