PrepTest 139, Section 2, Question 11
Passage A In ancient Greece, Aristotle documented the(492 more words not shown)
Passage A(259 more words not shown)
Passage B(241 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(22 more words not shown)
- AHoneybees will ignore(18 more words not shown)
- BWenner and Esch(14 more words not shown)
- CMost animal species(8 more words not shown)
- DThe work of(12 more words not shown)
- EInexperienced forager honeybees(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need support from both writers, so start with their shared material. Both discuss honeybee dances, von Frisch's success in deciphering them, and the failure of the proposed odor explanation. The monkeys and the refusal to visit the lake appear only in B.
What we’re looking for
An inference must still stay within that evidence. A claim about most animals, or about how young bees learn, would require information neither honeybee investigation gives us.
Working the answers
- A
Both accounts reject the idea that successful recruitment requires odors from the food source. B's lake example does not restore that requirement; it offers a different explanation for the refusal.
- B
Wenner and Esch found sounds, and their discovery prompted a sound-based explanation. Wenner later proposed odor instead. Neither account says that these researchers established both as vital to most honeybee communication.
- C
A deals only with honeybees. B says all animals communicate in some sense, but only some species communicate symbolically. That does not establish the majority claim in most.
- DCorrect
A says von Frisch and colleagues deciphered the dance and deduced food locations. B calls him the first to “crack the code.” Both credit him with a major advance in understanding honeybee communication, even though questions remained about its mechanism.
- E
We are not told whether dancing is learned from older bees, instinctive, or acquired another way. Knowing what the dance communicates does not tell us how a bee acquires the ability to perform it.
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