PrepTest 159, Section 4, Question 9
Passage A In all games, particularly in athletic(484 more words not shown)
Passage A(267 more words not shown)
Passage B(225 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- Athe relative merits(3 more words not shown)
- Bthe impression of(1 more words not shown)
- Cacademic dismissals of(2 more words not shown)
- Dthe background knowledge(4 more words not shown)
- Ethe aesthetic appeal(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Now the direction is reversed: find something in A but not B. A explains how spectators' childhood participation gives them a feel for the game and helps them judge performance. B instead explains aesthetic pleasure through Gumbrecht and Kant. Check which account supplies the detail, not merely whether it sounds familiar.
Working the answers
- A
A doesn't even name particular sports, much less compare which are better. The comparison is sports versus art.
- B
The “impression of purposiveness” belongs to B's explanation of beauty. This points to the wrong account.
- C
B explicitly describes academic analyses that dismiss sports fans. A also answers cultural critics, but the fact that this is present in B is enough to reject it here.
- DCorrect
A links sports audiences' judgment to their having participated in sports during childhood. That supplies the background knowledge this answer describes. B doesn't explain fans' appreciation in terms of their past playing experience.
- E
B's central concern is the aesthetic appeal of sporting events. Whatever connection we draw to A's discussion of performance and ceremony, this subject certainly isn't absent from B.
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