PrepTest 128, Section 4, Question 22
Passage A discusses the views of the economist(495 more words not shown)
Passage A(13 more words not shown)
Passage B(490 more words not shown)
Passage A differs from passage(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
A focuses on whether humans could know enough to deliver perfect justice. B also discusses the concept, but brings in trials and sentencing. We need a difference in how the two discussions are presented. I wouldn't force a precise prediction before seeing the descriptions.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
A stays more abstract: human knowledge, complicated relationships among factors, and perfect deservedness. B makes its points through more concrete situations, including a biased trial and a murderer with a traumatic childhood. Both contain abstract ideas, but A is more abstract by comparison.
- B
A isn't trying to provoke anger. Its criticism is reasoned rather than inflammatory.
- C
The relatively complicated sentence about weighing variables doesn't make A a more technical treatment. Neither discussion develops specialized procedures or technical machinery that establishes this contrast.
- D
Narrative means telling a story. A doesn't trace a sequence of events; it explains a concept and argues about human limitations.
- E
A isn't attacking Sowell. Both writers criticize cosmic justice, and B even calls its pursuit foolish. There's no basis for calling A the more adversarial discussion.
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