PrepTest 129, Section 4, Question 10
An effort should be made to dispel the(426 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(13 more words not shown)
- Ato show that(19 more words not shown)
- Bto show that(15 more words not shown)
- Cto present information(13 more words not shown)
- Dto present an(10 more words not shown)
- Eto offer specific(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The middle paragraphs give us two caricatures: science is only material mechanisms, and humanities is useless daydreaming. The final paragraph says both are mistaken and offers scientific humanism as a better way for the fields to work together.
What we’re looking for
The question asks for one function of that paragraph. An answer needn't include every sentence's job, but it must describe something the paragraph actually does.
Working the answers
- A
The opening does propose reconciliation. The ending supports its possibility rather than showing it to be implausible.
- B
The author calls these views misconceptions, not correct accounts that merely need reconciliation. Their inaccuracy is precisely why correction is needed.
- C
The author doesn't choose one caricature over the other. Both are replaced with an account that recognizes shared goals and useful methods.
- DCorrect
Scientific humanism is the alternative: combine a scientific attitude with concern for human values instead of maintaining those distorted pictures of the opposing field. That is a clear function of the final paragraph.
- E
We don't get specific cases illustrating those caricatures. We get a proposed correction and an explanation of the disciplines' common ground.
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