PrepTest 123, Section 4, Question 10
The two passages discuss recent scientific research on(479 more words not shown)
Passage A(208 more words not shown)
Passage B(258 more words not shown)
Each of the two passages(6 more words not shown)
- Abonding between(1 more words not shown)
- Bhuman(1 more words not shown)
- Cneurological(1 more words not shown)
- Dthe increasing helplessness(3 more words not shown)
- Ethe use of(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks for a detail mentioned in both texts, not a shared conclusion. A compares music with language; B examines musical elements in mother–infant interactions. Their different explanations could still mention the same connection involving music. I don't have a particular detail to predict, so I'll check each proposed relationship in A and in B. Finding it in only one leaves the job half done.
Working the answers
- A
B connects music with mother–infant bonding. A discusses communicating through music and language, but doesn't say that music creates bonds between people.
- BCorrect
A says music and language “communicate emotions.” B locates music's origins in “emotional bonds” between mothers and infants. The relationship has a different role in each argument, but both explicitly connect music with emotion.
- C
A cites brain imaging. B mentions a neurological basis, but the research it describes films mothers' and infants' behavior; it doesn't examine neural activity. Both research and the brain appear in B, but that doesn't make the filmed research neurological.
- D
Increasingly helpless infants are discussed only in B. A doesn't use infant development in its explanation.
- E
A mentions tools for producing music and language. B describes voices, faces, and bodily movements, without introducing tools used to produce sounds.
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