Q11

[shirando21]

Answer D-supported by L35-36

A: Origin of most Mexican American proverbs is not discussed.

B: We don't know anything about most other parents.

C: there's no comparison in the number of Spanish-language proverbs and common proverbs of Europe.

E: L11-12, it can actually be translated accurately.

[demetri.blaisdell]

Looking good. Just wanted to add a bit to this:

(A) has a degree problem. Lines 10-13 say "many" not "most."

(B) is unsupported. They're more likely to use idioms in teaching it, but we don't know what they value.

You took care of (C) and (E). Keep up the good work!

Demetri

[smsotolongo]

I ultimately chose D because that was stated also. While A says "most" the passage says that the great majority come from peninsular Spain, and many to Europe. Now Spain is in Europe, so that made me pause and wonder if "most" as appropriate for this choice. Since I was hesitant I went with D because it was stronger. Can you elaborate if I am missing something?

[jewels0602]

I chose A because of lines 7 - 9... would A be "more" right if it said most of them originated in Spain? Thanks!
I thought taking those lines and the line following it, talking about European origin was adequate for the "most likely to agree" question.

[ohthatpatrick]

"most likely to agree" / "suggests" / "implies" / "inferred" in RC are all basically the same type of question: pick the safest, most supportable answer choice.

What this really means is, beware of anything
-extreme
-comparative
-out of scope

When I pulled up this question just now and saw it was "most likely to agree", I took my normal quick first pass to see if any of the answer choices were safer sounding claims (I like to START by researching the most likely winners).

Here is what my brain saw in 10 seconds:
(A) "most" - extreme, red flag
(B) "more likely to" - comparison, red flag
(C) "more" - comparison, red flag
(D) "some" / "may"- super soft wording, potential winner
(E) "most" - extreme, red flag

Again, we aren't going to just PICK (D) based on strength of language, but I definitely don't waste time or brain power thinking about dangerous answer choices until I've investigated potential winners.

The danger word in (A), of course, is "most". In order to pick (A), I'll need to find a line in the passage that discusses what is true of "MOST Mexican American proverbs", or "a majority", or what is "typically / usually / generally" true about Mexican American proverbs.

Line 7 says
MOST Spanish-language proverbs

Is that an equivalent match for
MOST Mexican American proverbs?

Nope. Done with (A).

Just because Mexican American proverbs would presumably be Spanish language proverbs doesn't mean that every Spanish-language proverb is a Mexican-American proverb.

I can say "Most men make less than $150k / year."

Does that mean "Most NFL players make less than $150k / year"?

Of course not. Even though every NFL player is a man, I can't take a characteristic that applies to a wider group, "men", and apply it to a narrower subset of that group, "NFL-playing men".

Similarly, I can't take a trait that's true of most [Spanish-language proverbs] and assume it applies to most [Mexican-American Spanish-language proverbs].

Hope this helps.

[krisk743]

Is a/c C wrong because in line 7-8 the passage talks about which proverbs made their way to Mexico, while the answer choice just speaks generally about which there is more of?



I thought the passage was saying that "the great majority" of language was Spanish proverb while many were Europe. I assumed that meant one was more than the other.....

[vstoever]

Mexican is not the same as Mexican American.
Mexican American would refer to Americans in the U.S. of Mexican descent and we don't know anything about the origin for them we only know about the origin of proverbs in Mexico.

So tricky this one got me!