PrepTest 141, Section 3, Question 25
It is generally believed that while in some(434 more words not shown)
The author's use of the(25 more words not shown)
- Ado not exhaustively(7 more words not shown)
- Bhave been used(13 more words not shown)
- Chave no meaning(5 more words not shown)
- Dare mistakenly believed(12 more words not shown)
- Eprovide a flawed(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
No special magic means these labels cannot do the policy work for us. Flying can be described through either the choice to board or the lack of control over a crash; skydivers and firefighters make choices but receive different public responses.
What we’re looking for
We need the underlying reasons and a way to weigh them. The phrase criticizes reliance on the labels as a decision method, not the existence of every possible distinction between chosen and unchosen risks.
Working the answers
- A
This concerns how fully the labels describe the risks themselves. The author's immediate point is more specific: they do not reliably settle what risk-reduction policy should be.
- B
The author does not accuse anyone of intentionally concealing the government's motives. Confusion and selective attention are not evidence of a deliberate cover-up.
- C
Dictionary definitions are not the issue. Knowing a literal definition would not resolve which public expenditures are justified.
- D
The problem is not that the labels are mistakenly thought to inform people's understanding of consequences. The discussion concerns their reliability as guides for policy and the judgments they stand in for.
- ECorrect
As a policy mechanism, the distinction is flawed: it can depend on selective attention and disguise more specific judgments. The next sentence calls for understanding those underlying factors. We need that fuller reasoning rather than expecting the labels to decide for us.
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