PrepTest 155, Section 3, Question 24
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Reading the passage
Read the word in its sentence: studies involve Pirahã and Mundurukú Indian subjects. The next sentences describe their number words, counting practices, and performance on numerical tasks. These are the people participating in the studies.
Working the answers
- A
The researchers study the participants' use of words, but words aren't the participants being tested.
- B
Subjects can mean topics in another context. Here, the subjects have a language and perform tasks, so that meaning doesn't fit.
- CCorrect
The subjects are the Pirahã and Mundurukú people participating in the research. The later references to what they know and do confirm the meaning.
- D
The studies investigate relationships between language and thought, but those relationships aren't the subjects who complete the tasks.
- E
Objects appear in the numerical tasks. They are the items counted or compared, not the participants whose abilities are being studied.
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