PrepTest 118, Section 2, Question 6
A number of natural disasters in recent years—such(444 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- AAlthough inefficiencies have(23 more words not shown)
- BLocal communities had(26 more words not shown)
- CNumerous relief efforts(34 more words not shown)
- DMembers of communities(29 more words not shown)
- EA number of(29 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need a claim supported by the account of relief efforts, not an imagined history of how everyone reached their current views. The concrete problems in the second paragraph are a useful starting point. I don't have a single answer to predict, so I'll check the choices against what we actually learned.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing says increased demands on agencies' limited resources have made inefficiency worse over time. The damaged local infrastructure described in the second paragraph is not evidence for that different causal history.
- B
We don't know how interested communities were in preparedness before recent years. Recommending that they participate now doesn't establish past indifference.
- C
Large quantities of aid are mentioned, so that phrase alone isn't a reason to reject C. But we aren't told that most needs were met or that few communities questioned the methods. The account of wasted resources doesn't establish those results.
- D
The writer recommends giving communities a voice; we aren't given a history in which residents repeatedly demanded that role and agencies finally accepted their arguments.
- ECorrect
The examples include uninvited personnel, programs that don't fit local needs, food diverted for resale, and money left unaccounted for. Together, these support the description of wasteful programs with little accountability to affected communities. E stays with the failures actually described instead of adding an unsupported history.
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