PrepTest 139, Section 2, Question 8
Passage A In ancient Greece, Aristotle documented the(492 more words not shown)
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Passage B(241 more words not shown)
The passages have which one(6 more words not shown)
- Aarguing that certain(5 more words not shown)
- Billustrating the sophistication(5 more words not shown)
- Cdescribing certain scientific(5 more words not shown)
- Dairing a scientific(8 more words not shown)
- Eanalyzing the conditions(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Both accounts describe scientists investigating animal communication, especially honeybee dances. A follows the work on how the dance conveys a location; B includes that dance alongside other symbolic signals.
What we’re looking for
We need a purpose that belongs to both accounts. A statement can accurately describe the vervet experiment and still fail this shared-purpose question because A never discusses those monkeys.
Working the answers
- A
Neither account argues that the animals' intelligence is human-like. Communicating information does not, by itself, establish that comparison with humans.
- B
The vervet experiment illustrates primate communication in B. A is about honeybees, so this supplies only one side of the required match.
- CCorrect
A describes studies of the dance's pattern, sounds, and ability to direct other bees. B describes the vervet alarm experiment and studies of honeybee communication. The wording is broader than honeybees, but it accurately covers what both do.
- D
The disputed issue is the mechanism: how the dance transmits information. Its function is already understood to involve directing nestmates to food. Sound versus odor is a disagreement about how the communication works, not what it is for.
- E
B calls the dance a language and describes symbolic signals, but it does not lay out criteria that every symbolic system must satisfy to count as a language. A does not undertake that analysis either. Calling something a language is different from defining the conditions for that classification.
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