PrepTest 134, Section 4, Question 8
Mexican Americans share with speakers of Spanish throughout(416 more words not shown)
The author provides a translation(15 more words not shown)
- Aillustrate the relation(12 more words not shown)
- Bprovide an example(14 more words not shown)
- Cillustrate how a(9 more words not shown)
- Dprovide an example(11 more words not shown)
- Eillustrate the effectiveness(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The example comes right after we're told that peer relationships are a frequent focus of proverb use. Tell me who you run with and I'll tell you who you are is a concrete example of a parent teaching a lesson about companions and character.
What we’re looking for
So I predict an illustration of that particular educational use, not just an example of a proverb in general.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The saying makes the peer-relationship lesson concrete. Its placement after the statement about that frequent focus tells us why this example appears here.
- B
The author isn't analyzing whether the saying sounds stern, affectionate, or otherwise distinctive in tone. The point concerns what it teaches.
- C
An appeal to traditional wisdom is one possible explanation given afterward for parents' use of proverbs. But this example's immediate role is to illustrate instruction about peer relationships, rather than show how invoking tradition gives a parent authority.
- D
Translating the saying lets us understand the example. Demonstrating how clearly sayings can be translated isn't the author's purpose in providing it.
- E
We see the lesson parents convey, not evidence that the children follow it. A proverb's use as a teaching tool doesn't establish its effectiveness.
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