Q12

[hayleychen12]

I was down between D and E, and ended up with D
I cannot find any sentence in this passage that suggests the author's agreement with D or any sentence that suggests the disagreement with E.
Any help will be so appreciated !

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Author Opinion

Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
21-24, last paragraph (43-46, 51-57)

Any prephrase?
There will be four supportable answer choices here, so we don't need to worry about prephrasing all of them. Since it said "author most likely to agree", we anticipate that any attitude-laden sentences will probably be tested, AND we expect that an unsupportable answer may use wording that's too strong/specific.

Correct answer:
E

Answer choice analysis:

(A) Eliminate. 34-36.

(B) Eliminate. 43-46

(C) Eliminate. 47-52.

(D) Eliminate. 38-40.

(E) "Only"? Can't find any support for that extreme word.

Takeaway/Pattern: This ended up being assisted greatly by our typicaly bias in favor of weak language (A: "can be", B: "some", C: "might appear, can enhance", D: "sometimes") and against strong language (E: "only")

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