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- backupbecool
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Q6
I really do not understand why B is not the answer. Could someone please explain how E is a better answer than B?
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Re: PT8 S1 Q6
Harry claims that the publisher hasn't published his poems for personal reasons (i.e. they know who he is and don't want to publish his poems b/c he beat out their editor).
The publisher responds that this can't be true, because they review the poems without knowing the names of the people who wrote them.
By using evidence that they didn't use a name to rebut the argument that the publisher rejected Harry's poems because they are Harry's, the author is assuming that they would be recognized because of the name on them.
This might seem like an airtight assumption, but keep in mind that some of us are able to recognize the artwork of Picasso or Ansel Adams even if we don't see a name next to their work -- we recognize the work in other ways. And so it goes with poetry --
Perhaps there are other ways for the publication to recognize that Harry wrote the poems (maybe he has a distinct style). The author is assuming they recognized him by name, and (E) addresses that assumption.
(B) is an answer that might be true in real life, but it has no direct relation to anything that the publisher actually says. Does the publisher need to assume this in order to make his argument? No. Even if it were unusual for a poet to send in many poems without getting accepted, that wouldn't impact Harry's main supporting evidence (the "because..." part), and it wouldn't hurt the publisher's point that they wouldn't be able to recognize the poem as being one of Harry's.
The publisher responds that this can't be true, because they review the poems without knowing the names of the people who wrote them.
By using evidence that they didn't use a name to rebut the argument that the publisher rejected Harry's poems because they are Harry's, the author is assuming that they would be recognized because of the name on them.
This might seem like an airtight assumption, but keep in mind that some of us are able to recognize the artwork of Picasso or Ansel Adams even if we don't see a name next to their work -- we recognize the work in other ways. And so it goes with poetry --
Perhaps there are other ways for the publication to recognize that Harry wrote the poems (maybe he has a distinct style). The author is assuming they recognized him by name, and (E) addresses that assumption.
(B) is an answer that might be true in real life, but it has no direct relation to anything that the publisher actually says. Does the publisher need to assume this in order to make his argument? No. Even if it were unusual for a poet to send in many poems without getting accepted, that wouldn't impact Harry's main supporting evidence (the "because..." part), and it wouldn't hurt the publisher's point that they wouldn't be able to recognize the poem as being one of Harry's.
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Re: Q6
Yes, wrong topic. Deleting that post.
This is the opposite of Q4 in this passage. Now we want to strengthen the opponents' argument--and the way we want to do that is to make rDNA seem extremely dangerous. (B) does this! It tells us nothing is going to kill them, but they'll kill all kinds of things. That sounds ... horrifying.
(A) is irrelevant. We want danger, not disinterested consumers.
(C) is about money, not danger. Again, we want danger.
(D) gives us an ominous prediction, but one that's not linked to rDNA at all. We want an answer choice that tells us rDNA is going to cause this!
(E) is the opposite of what we're looking for. If they only survive for a few hours then they're not that dangerous.
This is the opposite of Q4 in this passage. Now we want to strengthen the opponents' argument--and the way we want to do that is to make rDNA seem extremely dangerous. (B) does this! It tells us nothing is going to kill them, but they'll kill all kinds of things. That sounds ... horrifying.
(A) is irrelevant. We want danger, not disinterested consumers.
(C) is about money, not danger. Again, we want danger.
(D) gives us an ominous prediction, but one that's not linked to rDNA at all. We want an answer choice that tells us rDNA is going to cause this!
(E) is the opposite of what we're looking for. If they only survive for a few hours then they're not that dangerous.
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