PrepTest 132, Section 3, Question 18
Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that(443 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(21 more words not shown)
- AThey will gradually(9 more words not shown)
- BThey are likely(12 more words not shown)
- CThey would likely(10 more words not shown)
- DThey enjoy domestic(11 more words not shown)
- EThey watch television(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The residents enjoy following domestic dramas from day to day, and television serves a function analogous to oral poetry used as a daily journal of interesting events. What does that let us say about these viewers? We should stay with that observed role, rather than invent their future habits.
Working the answers
- A
Nothing predicts that they will gradually switch their preference to imported programs. The study reports the current popularity of domestic dramas.
- B
Similar functions don't mean one activity will replace the other. They could continue enjoying both television and oral poetry.
- C
This may sound plausible, but a shared function doesn't establish how viewing time would change if oral poetry disappeared. We haven't been told that a fixed amount of time is divided between the two, or that television would fill the gap.
- D
Imported programs are available. Their enjoyment of domestic dramas isn't attributed mainly to a lack of access to imports.
- ECorrect
The phrase “an analogous function” supports overlapping reasons for enjoying the two activities. Both can help people follow events of interest. That modest overlap is supported; a forecast that one activity would replace the other isn't.
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