PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 10
Passage A Readers, like writers, need to search(481 more words not shown)
Passage A(227 more words not shown)
Passage B(262 more words not shown)
In which one of the(7 more words not shown)
- APassage A presents(12 more words not shown)
- BPassage A makes(7 more words not shown)
- CPassage A describes(12 more words not shown)
- DPassage B offers(6 more words not shown)
- EPassage B outlines(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
“Not parallel” asks for a real difference between the accounts. We need a true comparison: something one does that the other doesn't. It is not an instruction to pick a false statement.
What we’re looking for
A gives concrete conference-session titles to illustrate historians merely borrowing the language of narrative. B criticizes legal writing in general without identifying a particular document, class assignment or comparable named example. That is a difference we can verify.
Working the answers
- A
A criticizes current practice and an inadequate attempted improvement. It doesn't set out and refute arguments defending an opposing position. Disapproving of something is not automatically a presentation of the other side's case.
- B
Both make evaluative claims. A says history writing fails to stimulate students; B says lawyers too often write badly. The claim that B doesn't evaluate is false.
- CCorrect
A names conference sessions, including one about oral history, storytelling, and class identity (Passage A, paragraph 2), then criticizes their continued academic abstraction. B gives general descriptions of legal writing and its teaching, not similarly specific examples. This accurately identifies a way they differ.
- D
Both offer criticism. A's complaint about lifeless historical writing is no less critical than B's complaint about legal writing.
- E
B suggests narrative as a possible corrective, but doesn't outline a theory absent from A. A also discusses storytelling as a response to a problem. This proposed contrast doesn't fit.
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