PrepTest 143, Section 2, Question 9
The current approach to recusal and disqualification of(432 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- Ato state the(10 more words not shown)
- Bto present a(8 more words not shown)
- Cto provide concrete(9 more words not shown)
- Dto explore the(11 more words not shown)
- Eto state the(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The first paragraph tells us how the current approach works. The second tells us what's wrong with it: vague guidance and a focus on appearances that can miss actual bias. Predict criticism of the approach just described. The concrete replacement—written explanations—comes in the third paragraph.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
This identifies the second paragraph's job in relation to the first. It objects to the existing approach and explains the problems the author sees with it.
- B
The second paragraph doesn't present the written-explanation solution. The third paragraph introduces that proposal and endorses it; it does not reject a solution supplied earlier. Both parts of B misdescribe the sequence.
- C
The paragraph makes general criticisms. It gives no particular judge, case or other concrete example showing those problems in action.
- D
There is no history of how the present approach developed. Describing a current weakness is different from tracing its origins.
- E
The criticism is certainly important to the overall argument, but this description is less accurate than A. The rest of the discussion develops a replacement and answers an objection to that replacement. The second paragraph's immediate purpose is to object to the approach already described, not simply announce a thesis that the remaining paragraphs then defend.
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