PrepTest 150, Section 4, Question 19
This passage is based on an article written(452 more words not shown)
The passage provides information most(9 more words not shown)
- AWhen was dowsing(8 more words not shown)
- BIs the success(16 more words not shown)
- CWhat proportion of(8 more words not shown)
- DIs dowsing ever(9 more words not shown)
- EWhat are some(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks which question we have enough information to answer. We don't need to know everything about dowsing; we need a specific statement that resolves one of these questions. The opening definition is broader than the water-finding example that occupies most of the discussion.
Working the answers
- A
No origin date is provided. The note that the article was written in 1995 tells us when the account was written, not when people first used dowsing.
- B
Rainstorms and their effect on success are never discussed.
- C
We learn that forked sticks are one kind of dowsing tool, but no proportion tells us how many successful dowsers use them.
- DCorrect
The opening defines dowsing as detecting underground materials or buried items (paragraph 1) and then introduces finding water as an example. That broader definition answers yes: the practice is used to try to find things besides water. We don't need a list of those things or proof that the attempts succeed; the question asks whether dowsing is used to try.
- E
The skeptics refer to surface clues without identifying specific ones. We could imagine clues, but the account doesn't tell us what they are. Saying clues may exist is not the same as supplying examples of them.
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