LSAT 142 – Section 1 – Question 01

LSAT 142 - Section 1 - Question 01

December 2014

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PT142 S1 Q01
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Fill in the blank +Fill
Value Judgment +ValJudg
Analogy +An
A
0%
148
B
0%
154
C
98%
164
D
0%
154
E
1%
153
120
124
134
 +Easiest 145.991 +SubsectionMedium

Children should be discouraged from reading Jones’s books. Reading them is like eating candy, which provides intense, short-term sensory stimulation but leaves one poorly nourished and dulls one’s taste for better fare. In other words, the problem with letting children read Jones’s books is that _______.

Summary
Children should be discouraged from reading Jones’s books. It’s like eating candy— fun for a moment, but it doesn't provide lasting value and it spoils the appetite for better things. In other words, the problem with letting children read Jones’s books is that _______.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
We are looking for a strongly supported comparison to fill in the blank. The problem with letting children read Jones’s books is that...
they do not provide long lasting value or intellectual nourishment.
Jones’s books dull children’s appreciation for better or more challenging literature.

A
it will lead them to develop a taste for candy and sweets
Unsupported. The effects of reading Jones’s books are compared to the effects of eating candy. Reading Jones’s books does not cause a taste for candy.
B
too many children may become frustrated by their difficulty and stop reading altogether
Unsupported. We are not told anything about the difficulty level of reading Jones’s books or whether reading them causes frustration in children.
C
their doing so interferes with the development of appreciation for more challenging literature
Strongly supported. Just as eating candy “dulls one’s taste for better fare,” reading Jones’s books interferes with the development of appreciation for more challenging literature (that is, it dulls children’s taste for reading more challenging literature in the future).
D
their message may undermine the positive teaching done by parents
Unsupported. The stimulus does not give us any information about the content and messages of Jones’s books or whether those messages conflict with parents’ teaching.
E
children may become so enthralled with books that they will want to spend all their time reading
Unsupported. We know eating candy “provides intense, short-term sensory stimulation.” We don’t know that this then causes children to spend all their time eating candy. Similarly, we can’t conclude that Jones’s books cause children to spend all their time reading.

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