PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 8
While recent decades have seen more information recorded(452 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(9 more words not shown)
- AThe increasing volume(26 more words not shown)
- BModern data storage-and-retrieval(16 more words not shown)
- CMany archivists have(24 more words not shown)
- DGiven the limitations(25 more words not shown)
- EModern electronic media(25 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already identified the central problem: archivists have more information to preserve, but the materials holding it may not last. Computers offer possibilities without eliminating the urgency or the need to decide what deserves saving.
What we’re looking for
Look for an answer that covers those connected challenges. A statement about just one storage method or one preservation decision may be true without capturing the main point.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
More information and less durable media make the archivists' job harder. Their “charge” is their responsibility to preserve important records indefinitely. A covers the problem introduced at the start and developed through the storage examples and the final selection problem.
- B
This reverses the point. Modern techniques haven't solved the problem of distinguishing essential from dispensable information. The ending warns that archivists may not be able to make those decisions in time.
- C
The durability comparison contributes to the problem, but it isn't the whole point. We also need the growing volume of information and the resulting difficulty of preserving what matters. C stops at a supporting comparison.
- D
The issue isn't that modern media lack room: electronic records can occupy “very little space.” The limits concern durability and time. Choosing valuable documents is part of the response to that problem, not a substitute for explaining the overall challenge.
- E
We know archivists must separate valuable material from dispensable material. But the author doesn't establish that easy electronic recording caused so much unimportant material to be stored. More importantly, E omits what this situation means for the archivists trying to preserve important records.
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