PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 4
The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and(426 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(4 more words not shown)
- Asummarizing the main(9 more words not shown)
- Bexamining contemporary trends(6 more words not shown)
- Ccriticizing widely accepted(8 more words not shown)
- Ddemonstrating the advantages(9 more words not shown)
- Eanalyzing the impact(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The opening identifies small-farm bankruptcies. The rest presents Whatley's proposed way to keep small farms financially viable, explaining the guidelines and why they matter. Predict a summary of a proposed solution to that problem.
What we’re looking for
We should distinguish explaining a plan from evaluating it through evidence of success and failure. We get the former.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Small-farm financial failure is the serious problem, and Whatley's comprehensive farming plan is the innovative proposed solution. This describes both the setup and the sustained explanation that follows.
- B
Agricultural trends supply background. The writer doesn't systematically examine the strengths and weaknesses of those trends; attention quickly shifts to Whatley's alternative.
- C
The opening mentions debt and mechanization, but the main purpose isn't to criticize accepted farming practices. Most of the discussion tells us what small farmers should do under Whatley's proposal and why.
- D
We hear how the strategy is supposed to work and what conditions it needs. We don't get a balanced demonstration of its advantages and disadvantages. Our own doubts about attracting members aren't presented as findings against the plan.
- E
No evidence shows the new idea's actual impact on the agricultural industry. Describing a proposal's intended benefits doesn't amount to analyzing effects that adoption has already produced.
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