PrepTest 153, Section 4, Question 10
This passage is based on an article published(468 more words not shown)
The author's primary purpose in(12 more words not shown)
- Acite an example(13 more words not shown)
- Bindicate one of(15 more words not shown)
- Cprovide evidence that(11 more words not shown)
- Dshow that the(17 more words not shown)
- Epoint out one(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Find the claim immediately before the university example: there has been a resurgence in native-language study and preservation efforts. More universities offering relevant curricula is one way to see that resurgence. The example is evidence that the effort is growing.
What we’re looking for
That is its job before the writer turns to radio. Don't turn the example into a claim that radio caused the university courses or that the courses are inferior to radio.
Working the answers
- A
No comparison establishes that these curricula are less successful. The writer lists them as a preservation effort, not as a failed approach against which radio looks better.
- B
This makes the university development an effect of preservation through native-language programming. The text doesn't give that causal connection. The courses and broadcasts are examples of activity occurring during the same resurgence.
- CCorrect
“More universities” offering these curricula supports the preceding claim of renewed interest in studying and preserving the languages. The example gives a concrete sign of the growth being described.
- D
Earlier government policies damaged transmission, but this sentence doesn't compare scholars' attitudes with government officials' attitudes. A policy's effects don't by themselves establish the officials' opinions, and the example's immediate function is to show renewed activity.
- E
We aren't told that university curricula helped make native-language radio popular. This reverses an example of preservation activity into a cause of a different development. The required causal link isn't supplied.
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