PrepTest 119, Section 1, Question 4
Economists have long defined prosperity in terms of(440 more words not shown)
According to the passage, economists(12 more words not shown)
- Aby claiming that(10 more words not shown)
- Bby asserting that(8 more words not shown)
- Cby citing the(8 more words not shown)
- Dby showing that(11 more words not shown)
- Eby detailing the(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
How do the economists defend their measure? In the final paragraph, they argue that a useful concept needs to be easy to quantify. Counting money is straightforward; assigning a number to happiness or environmental health is harder. That's their response to the critics.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The economists say prosperity should be defined in “easily quantifiable terms” and exclude difficult-to-measure values. A states that defense.
- B
The residents fear losing jobs if timber harvests are limited. That's their objection to a policy, not the economists' defense of their definition of prosperity.
- C
The critics emphasize nonmonetary values. This gives the other side's objection instead of the economists' reply.
- D
The critics infer the location's value from the income residents forgo by staying. The economists' reply emphasizes the difficulty of measuring such values; D doesn't describe that reply.
- E
No history of how the definition developed is given.
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