PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 9
While recent decades have seen more information recorded(452 more words not shown)
The passage provides information sufficient(8 more words not shown)
- AAre there any(11 more words not shown)
- BWhy is information(13 more words not shown)
- CWhen were optical(6 more words not shown)
- DApproximately how many(12 more words not shown)
- EHow were the(5 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks which question we have enough information to answer. Familiar names aren't enough: we need the particular fact being asked for. A date, a quantity and an explanation of why something happens require different evidence.
Working the answers
- A
Parchment and Homer and Virgil are mentioned separately. We aren't told that copies of their works were stored on parchment. Combining two familiar details would add a connection the author never supplies.
- B
We hear about deteriorating acidic paper and digital tape, but not why the paper would be more unstable than the tape. Examples of deterioration don't explain that comparison.
- CCorrect
The 1980s. Optical computer disks were then “the cutting edge of technology”. That's a direct answer to when they were state of the art.
- D
Some tablets survive in museums, but no approximate number is given.
- E
We learn how copies of Plato's works were rediscovered, not how the works were originally recorded.
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