Q6

[andyevans000]

So I can easily tick off B, D, and E as wrong answers, but I can't find any evidence why A or C are preferable. In lieu of finding something concrete, I chose A since a judge is more likely to uphold a right than make a mere determination. Even on review, I still don't understand where in the text C would be supported as more likely to occur.

[giladedelman]

Thanks for your question!

I agree that those three are easy to knock off:

(B) because the passage tells us that this behavior is prohibited, so this outcome would be pretty likely.

(D) because the passage explicitly says that this is exactly how the courts have ruled.

(E) because we're told that if the employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy, their employers can't monitor their emails.

So, why not (A)? Well, we don't have any support in the passage for the idea that a court would not rule this way. We don't know whether it's likely OR unlikely.

(C), on the other hand, we can say is unlikely, because the existence of paper documents is offered as the primary justification for the position that it's okay to delete government emails. So even a court sympathetic to that side of the argument wouldn't be likely to sanction the destruction of all documents, electronic and paper.

Does that make sense?