PrepTest 143, Section 2, Question 23
To glass researchers it seems somewhat strange that(470 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(11 more words not shown)
- AThey provide some(14 more words not shown)
- BThey have stimulated(13 more words not shown)
- CThey offer a(13 more words not shown)
- DThey provide a(14 more words not shown)
- EThey suggest that(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The author accepts the study's calculations and uses them to reject the window-flow explanation. But the result is not presented as the first reason any scientist had for rejecting that belief. The third paragraph says it demonstrates dramatically what many scientists had already reasoned.
What we’re looking for
So the study's contribution is numerical support for an existing scientific view: the time required is vastly longer than the windows' age.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The calculated flow times are quantitative evidence. They strengthen a view already held by many scientists, whose earlier reasoning included the high temperature needed for more than negligible flow. Both the kind of evidence and its relationship to earlier thinking are supported.
- B
No subsequent research inspired by this study is described. This invents a later development instead of explaining the author's assessment of these results.
- C
The opening suggests how confusion about atomic structure may have contributed to the myth. Zanotto's study calculates flow times; it does not investigate how the belief spread.
- D
The study rejects an explanation of old windows rather than reconciling two scientific views previously thought incompatible. There is no reconciliation of that kind to identify.
- E
The author does not reject both proposed explanations. The flow explanation fails, while old manufacturing methods remain the probable cause.
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