PrepTest 159, Section 2, Question 7
The following two passages were adapted from articles(474 more words not shown)
Passage A(253 more words not shown)
Passage B(215 more words not shown)
Both passages are primarily concerned(1 more words not shown)
- Aarguing that financial(14 more words not shown)
- Bdescribing successful approaches(10 more words not shown)
- Cexploring the roles(17 more words not shown)
- Dcomparing successful and(12 more words not shown)
- Edemonstrating that microfinance(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already identified the common thread: both writers describe ways to bring useful financial services to poor people. A discusses successful lending and the additional demand for savings; B describes SafeSave's flexible banking service. Look for that shared purpose without turning a feature of only one account into the purpose of both.
Working the answers
- A
Offering more than loans is important to A's closing argument, and SafeSave does offer more. But B primarily describes its particular service and prospects; it doesn't organize its discussion as a general recommendation that providers should expand beyond loans. Choice B more fully describes their shared purpose.
- BCorrect
Both explain successful approaches to serving poor customers: Grameen's lending and BRI's savings in A, and SafeSave's flexible service in B. “Successful” doesn't require every approach to have achieved every long-term goal already.
- C
These are financial services, not an examination of employment opportunities. Providing credit might help someone's work, but neither writer centers the discussion on creating jobs.
- D
A contrasts unsuccessful state banks with successful approaches. B doesn't describe a failed provider to establish the same comparison, and its service extends beyond credit.
- E
Economic sustainability is a future prospect for SafeSave, not something B demonstrates as achieved. A also doesn't organize its discussion around proving that good work and financial sustainability coexist.
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