PrepTest 140, Section 4, Question 10
Passage A is from a source published in(494 more words not shown)
Passage A(226 more words not shown)
Passage B(276 more words not shown)
Based on what can be(27 more words not shown)
- A"Advances in Artificial(6 more words not shown)
- B"Internet Retailers Post(8 more words not shown)
- C"New Planet Discovered(8 more words not shown)
- D"Biologists Create New(10 more words not shown)
- E"A Renegade Economist's(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Strip away the video games. A introduces an economic phenomenon; B considers how law should apply to it. We want that relationship in another setting: something new becomes possible, and someone works through the legal treatment it requires.
What we’re looking for
The topic needn't stay taxation. A discussion of a new kind of asset followed by its regulation could fit. What matters is matching the jobs of both documents, rather than grabbing the answer that repeats a familiar word.
Working the answers
- A
Advances in artificial intelligence could introduce a development, but applying human psychology to robots is not an analysis of how the law should treat it. The second half misses B's role.
- B
The tax language is tempting, but posting a good year reports the performance of an existing business activity. A instead presents the discovery of economic activity where Castronova hadn't expected it. And lawmakers moving to tax something is an account of their action; B analyzes the appropriate treatment under law and policy. The shared word tax doesn't establish the full relationship.
- C
The discovery fits the first role, but debating whether the object is a planet or an asteroid is a classification dispute. B doesn't debate whether virtual commerce counts as commerce; it asks how to tax it.
- DCorrect
The first document describes a newly created form of life. The second asks how patent law applies to that development. That matches new economic territory followed by analysis of the applicable tax law. Patent law can replace tax law because the underlying relationship stays the same.
- E
A does not present Castronova as a renegade with unconventional tax views. Nor does B report a candidate's campaign position. Both descriptions change the work the writers are doing.
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