PrepTest 132, Section 1, Question 10
While courts have long allowed custom-made medical illustrations(477 more words not shown)
Based on the passage, which(16 more words not shown)
- AThey tend to(12 more words not shown)
- BThey are inadmissible(14 more words not shown)
- CThey are in(15 more words not shown)
- DThey are believed(19 more words not shown)
- EIn many cases(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Textbook pictures are designed for medical students. They may include much more detail than jurors need, making the relevant injury harder to see. That gives us a likely difference in usefulness without implying that every textbook picture is unsuitable for court.
Working the answers
- A
We learn that custom illustrators sometimes omit color. We don't get a comparison showing that textbook illustrations rely on it less.
- B
The expert-testimony requirement in paragraph two concerns custom-made illustrations. The author doesn't state the same admissibility condition for textbook pictures.
- C
The text compares the illustrations' purposes, not the identities of the people who draw them.
- D
Some opponents favor generic pictures, and some lawyers have questionable ideas about custom ones. Neither claim tells us what most lawyers believe about their relative tendency to misrepresent injuries.
- ECorrect
The third paragraph says complex textbook details can be deleted to keep the relevant injury clear (paragraph 3). Veins and arteries, for example, may distract from an explanation of a fracture. A custom image can leave out that clutter and make the relevant facts clearer.
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