PrepTest 129, Section 4, Question 11
An effort should be made to dispel the(426 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that the(17 more words not shown)
- Aa realization that(19 more words not shown)
- Ban acknowledgement that(14 more words not shown)
- Can acceptance of(11 more words not shown)
- Da less strident(11 more words not shown)
- Ean emphasis on(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What should humanists change? They should stop treating science as a narrow approach that has nothing useful to offer their study of human values. The final paragraph points to a concrete bridge: humanities already benefit from controlled evaluation.
What we’re looking for
So I'd expect a willingness to use that kind of approach, rather than simply repeating the criticism of science.
Working the answers
- A
This replaces one material-world emphasis with another. The author doesn't recommend deciding that mathematical models interest scientists more than bodies in motion; the correction is that science isn't limited to that narrow picture.
- B
Some humanists already claim that science misses a spiritual element in the arts. Repeating their present position isn't the modification the author recommends.
- CCorrect
The author connects benefit from controlled evaluation with a scientific attitude applied to human values. Accepting that approach would help bridge the divide while preserving the humanities' interest in those values.
- D
The author doesn't ask humanists to downgrade the importance of art. That resembles the position of the pragmatists in the third paragraph, not the proposed synthesis.
- E
Proving the humanities' practical survival value isn't the proposed task. The author wants collaboration around common objectives, not merely a demonstration that humanities meet the critics' narrow test of usefulness.
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