PrepTest 124, Section 2, Question 3
Because it permits a slower and more natural(51 more words not shown)
The statements above, if true,(10 more words not shown)
- ALiving in the(12 more words not shown)
- BLiving in the(19 more words not shown)
- CPeople whose rhythm(10 more words not shown)
- DDespite what people(8 more words not shown)
- EThe amount of(11 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Moving to the country sounds peaceful. Maybe you would sleep more or spend less time out drinking. But would a slower life actually make you healthier and less stressed?
The surveys give us reason to question that promise. Country residents get sick just as often and just as seriously as city residents, and they experience just as much stress. The setting changes; the expected improvement doesn't show up.
Why might that happen? Perhaps people adapt and find things to worry about wherever they live. Perhaps people in the country have less access to medical help. We haven't established either explanation. They're simply reminders that a slower pace needn't solve every problem affecting health and stress.
What we’re looking for
Now we're asked what the statements most support. We don't need to solve the mystery. I want an answer saying that moving to the country isn't the health-and-relaxation solution people expect. Stay with the outcomes the surveys measured.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The reported illness and stress levels support this comparison. Country residents aren't getting sick less often or less seriously, and they aren't experiencing less stress. Those findings undermine the promised health and relaxation advantage. We don't have to claim that no individual could ever benefit from a move; this is the broad comparison supported by the surveys.
- B
The country could really offer a slower, more natural pace without delivering the expected benefits. We are questioning the proposed effect of that lifestyle, not establishing that the lifestyle doesn't exist. Equal illness and stress do not prove equal daily routines.
- C
How quickly people recover is a new issue. The passage tells us how often people become ill and how seriously, but it doesn't compare recovery times. We cannot add that advantage just because a slow, natural life sounds appealing.
- D
Failing to improve health is not the same as making health worse. If a move leaves you just as healthy as before, it hasn't delivered a benefit, but it hasn't harmed you either. The surveys do not show that a natural rhythm of life is actively unhealthy.
- E
We haven't established what determines a person's stress level. These results question the idea that the country's slower rhythm produces less stress. They don't establish that rhythm is the factor stress depends on. Other differences could matter, and the passage doesn't sort them out.
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