PrepTest 159, Section 4, Question 12
Passage A In all games, particularly in athletic(484 more words not shown)
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Passage B(225 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- AThe best works(13 more words not shown)
- BA work of(15 more words not shown)
- CCareful observation of(11 more words not shown)
- DExcellence in a(11 more words not shown)
- EDiscriminating judgment concerning(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
A offers a causal explanation for good judgment: many sports spectators played as children, so they acquired a sense of the game and the ability to make discriminating judgments. B explains beauty through purposiveness instead. Look for A's link between doing an activity and learning how to judge it.
Working the answers
- A
A contrasts stable standards with novelty and fashion. It doesn't say that the best individual artworks must maintain constant popularity over time. Standards for judging and changes in popularity are different things.
- B
Neither account establishes beauty as a necessary condition for calling a work excellent. B discusses beauty, but this isn't the principle underlying A's audience argument.
- C
This changes the direction and the outcome: watching an activity supposedly becomes necessary for performing it well. A's point is that participating helps someone judge, not that observation is required to achieve excellence.
- D
A doesn't claim that excellent performers must possess comprehensive knowledge of every rule. The relevant benefit of participation concerns the audience's judgments.
- ECorrect
This captures the participation-to-judgment connection. Having played sports gives spectators a sense of the game that supports informed evaluation. B does not build its argument around that background experience.
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