PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 10
While recent decades have seen more information recorded(452 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly suggests(10 more words not shown)
- AArchivists have little(11 more words not shown)
- BArchivists should wait(16 more words not shown)
- CThe problems concerning(17 more words not shown)
- DStoring paintings, photographs,(13 more words not shown)
- EGenerally, the more(21 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep both sides of the archivists' situation in view. Computer technology changes quickly and can become unreadable, so depending on it is risky. But the older materials are deteriorating too, and time is running out. Being reluctant to use a tool doesn't mean you can afford to avoid it.
What we’re looking for
That tension supports a view about the archivists' limited options. We need an inference grounded in those facts, not a solution that merely sounds sensible to us.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The second paragraph places their reluctance to depend on computers directly against the fact that they are “quickly running out of time.” Conventional records won't wait for a perfect system. The author therefore suggests that some dependence on computers is becoming unavoidable, even though the technology has weaknesses.
- B
Waiting is not the recommendation. The author emphasizes the need to act before conventional materials deteriorate. A better system may be coming, but that doesn't make postponing all further electronic storage safe.
- C
Avoiding electronic storage wouldn't remove the deterioration already affecting paper, photographs and videotapes. We aren't told that abandoning computers would greatly reduce most archivists' durability problems.
- D
This ranks images against text. The discussion instead compares how information is stored: paper, photographs, tape, disks and the equipment needed to read them. No overall images-versus-text ranking is established.
- E
Compact storage is mentioned, but its density is not identified as the cause of its limited durability. Putting more information into a given space and keeping it readable for longer are separate issues here.
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