PrepTest 116, Section 4, Question 27
Most scientists who study the physiological effects of(447 more words not shown)
The author suggests each of(6 more words not shown)
- AGreater platelet adhesiveness(7 more words not shown)
- BThe body's ability(13 more words not shown)
- CDoctors have access(9 more words not shown)
- DHigh lipid levels(13 more words not shown)
- EModerate wine consumption(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Several factors are linked to heart disease: lipid processing, blood-vessel wall thickness, and platelet adhesiveness. Keep those relationships separate. For this EXCEPT question, each choice needs support for the connection it actually asserts.
Working the answers
- A
Greater adhesiveness means more tendency to form clots, and the author describes reduced adhesiveness as an improvement. That supports the risk connection stated here.
- B
Alcohol interferes with lipid processing in the account, causing dangerous increases in blood lipid levels. That supports compromised processing.
- C
The final paragraph identifies a naturally occurring substance that doctors use to break up clots (paragraph 3). So doctors having access to it is directly supported.
- DCorrect
This creates a chain we weren't given: high lipids cause increased cell reactivity and platelet adhesiveness, which cause heart disease. The author introduces those last two as additional contributing factors. Their shared connection to heart disease doesn't establish that high lipids produce them. Wine's reported effects on them don't establish that missing link either.
- E
The final paragraph says wine appears to help and specifies that wine reduces the thickness of blood vessels’ inner walls (paragraph 3). That is the reported effect E describes.
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