PrepTest 122, Section 3, Question 3
The use of computer-generated visual displays in courtrooms(450 more words not shown)
As described in the passage,(16 more words not shown)
- Ausing several of(13 more words not shown)
- Busing an author's(13 more words not shown)
- Cusing information gathered(10 more words not shown)
- Dusing a video(14 more words not shown)
- Eusing detailed geological(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What are we doing when we recreate the accident? We're using information about something that already happened to make a visual presentation others can examine. The jury wasn't there, so the display helps show our reconstruction of the event.
What we’re looking for
We don't need an answer involving a courtroom or a computer. We need that same relationship between evidence, a past event, and its depiction.
Working the answers
- A
Combining statements to infer a motive doesn't recreate an event visually. Mentioning a crime suspect doesn't make this the right analogy.
- B
Correcting printing errors uses an original to repair a faulty copy. The courtroom display isn't correcting an existing recording against an original; it's constructing a depiction of what happened.
- C
This is the tempting one: information and images are involved. But it predicts a future storm. Our display looks backward to reconstruct an event that has already occurred. That difference is central to the task.
- D
Recording people's current opinions for an advertisement isn't reconstructing a past event. A video camera alone doesn't give us the relationship we want.
- ECorrect
The geological evidence corresponds to the information used to reconstruct the accident. The museum exhibit corresponds to the display, and museum visitors correspond to jurors seeing a depiction of something they didn't witness. Both use evidence to show a past event.
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