PrepTest 141, Section 3, Question 24
It is generally believed that while in some(434 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(18 more words not shown)
- APeople should generally(21 more words not shown)
- BThe fact that(27 more words not shown)
- CBoth the probability(26 more words not shown)
- DFor public-policy purposes,(21 more words not shown)
- EThe main category(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The opening gives us a useful contrast: experts tend to focus on lives at stake; laypeople focus more on whether someone chose the risk. Apply that to flying. A passenger's earlier choice to board does not become the central policy issue for experts merely because a later crash occurred.
Working the answers
- A
The discussion concerns when government should spend resources, not whether skydivers should receive any protection at all. They might take precautions themselves or receive protection from a company. The author does not establish this broad no-protection rule.
- BCorrect
Since experts emphasize aggregate lives at stake, whether crash victims chose to fly would usually carry little weight in deciding the government's air-safety role. This applies the stated expert emphasis without claiming that experts never consider any other factor.
- C
No probabilities are compared. We cannot rank crashes against every other danger airline passengers face from the fact that crashes are used as an example.
- D
The author stresses degrees of choice and the inadequacy of simple labels for policy. A rule that classifies every choice-dependent risk as voluntary does not follow from that discussion or solve the author's concern.
- E
The asteroid example shows a case that can lack voluntariness. It does not establish that natural disasters are the main category of completely involuntary risk.
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