PrepTest 157, Section 1, Question 18
Passage A is from a newspaper article.(500 more words not shown)
Passage A(7 more words not shown)
Passage B(500 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(24 more words not shown)
- AThe UNESCO draft(19 more words not shown)
- BIt is better(32 more words not shown)
- CIf an archaeological(28 more words not shown)
- DWhenever an agreement(24 more words not shown)
- EThe recovery plans(22 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The company's response needs to defend its project while addressing B's preservation concern. A already gives us the basis: different objects have different archaeological value, and selling coins can finance recovery. A useful response would explain how some sale could coexist with preserving material for study and display.
What we’re looking for
It needn't pretend the project already complies with every proposed rule. It should give a reason to challenge the blanket objection to commercial sale.
Working the answers
- A
B doesn't assume easy access or low recovery costs. Its rules concern what should be done with heritage; they don't depend on a claim that retrieving it is cheap.
- B
This endorses leaving artifacts at the site and adds a claim about deterioration. It doesn't defend the company's proposed recovery-and-sale arrangement.
- CCorrect
Keeping representative samples of a thousand virtually identical coins would preserve examples for museums, while selling the remainder would fund the work. The company can argue that cultural access and project financing need not be mutually exclusive. This directly answers the concern underlying B's sales restriction without simply denying that concern matters.
- D
B gives the concerned state's authority a role in authorizing activity. It doesn't exempt projects whenever a sovereign government joins an agreement. Asserting that exemption supplies neither textual support nor an answer to the preservation argument.
- E
The plan allows coin sales, while B rejects commercial exploitation for sale. Complete compliance is therefore not an accurate defense. C offers a reason for a different policy; E incorrectly says there is no conflict.
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