PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 8
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)
The passages most strongly support(15 more words not shown)
- ANeither author is(11 more words not shown)
- BEach author is(10 more words not shown)
- CThe author of(31 more words not shown)
- DBoth authors are(9 more words not shown)
- EThe author of(22 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Use the authors' own descriptions of where they stand. A says the problem became evident “when I started teaching” and later describes what “we” encounter at meetings of historians. B begins with “we who teach the law” and calls aspiring lawyers “our future colleagues.” These are criticisms from inside the respective professions.
Working the answers
- A
Neither writes as an outsider to the profession being discussed. The teaching and collective language supply affirmative evidence of participation.
- BCorrect
A identifies with historians through teaching and professional meetings. B identifies with the legal profession through legal education and the description of future lawyers as colleagues. We don't need to assume that every law professor currently argues cases in court; professional membership is broader than that particular kind of practice.
- C
The first half fits A, but the second half excludes B from both professions. B's references to teaching law and future colleagues contradict that exclusion. Distinguishing teaching from courtroom work doesn't make the writer external to the legal profession.
- D
A is discussing historical scholarship, not identifying as a member of the legal profession. We have no support for placing both writers in B's field.
- E
B's legal affiliation doesn't establish membership in the history profession as well. This adds a second affiliation and a contrast with A that the accounts never supply.
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