PrepTest 132, Section 3, Question 19
Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that(443 more words not shown)
According to the author, an(21 more words not shown)
- Athe viewing habits(8 more words not shown)
- Ban accurate model(8 more words not shown)
- Cthe role of(14 more words not shown)
- Dshared aspects of(8 more words not shown)
- Esocial factors that(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
My first thought is the attention to individuals emphasized at the end.
What we’re looking for
But the question asks where the empirical study must begin. We need the author's stated starting point, not just an important part of the overall recommendation.
Working the answers
- A
Viewing habits and tastes matter, but they aren't identified as the first question to settle. The opening of the proposed research agenda asks about the relationship between cultural productions.
- BCorrect
The author explicitly asks first what model best represents the “true relationship” between imported and domestic productions. That model supplies the account whose treatment of individual viewers must then be considered.
- C
Understanding outside influences on people's lives is the broad goal. C doesn't identify the particular starting investigation the author specifies: the model of how imports relate to domestic productions.
- D
Shared themes and character types belong to one possible model, selective fusion. The author doesn't require researchers to assume that model or start by finding those shared aspects.
- E
How people give meaning to productions is explicitly part of the final paragraph, so it isn't absent. But it comes in the subsequent discussion of individual viewers, rather than the first question the author tells researchers to investigate.
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