PrepTest 157 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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Intro topic · Agreement to recover sunken treasure

Private company signs agreement with British government to recover sunken treasure and split proceeds.

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Details · Agreement’s importance

Allow governments to be in charge of recovering sunken ships.

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Details · Concerns about agreement

Supposed to preserve archeological integrity but there is doubt.

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Definition · UCH

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Rules · To protect cultural heritage

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Application

This question is similar to a Strengthen/Weaken question. The correct answer will help defend the position of the representative of the private company in Passage A against the rules in Passage B.

In particular, Rule 5 of Passage B prohibits the commercial sale of UCH. This would prohibit the private company’s plan to sell some gold coins they might discover in the shipwreck. What answer will help us argue that the company should be allowed to sell the coins?

Note that this question is not exactly the same as a Strengthen/Weaken question, because we don’t have to accept each statement as true. Ordinarily, in a Strengthen/Weaken question, we accept the answers as true no matter how unlikely or unreasonable they are. Here, however, we are instead asked for the “most appropriate response.” That means if an answer says something that is unreasonable or anti-supported by the passages, that answer isn’t “appropriate.”

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(A) doesn’t help justify the sale of coins recovered from the shipwreck. Even if the costs of recovering shipwrecks are higher than estimated in the UNESCO convention, that doesn’t suggest that sales of artifacts should be allowed. That may instead only suggest that governments should devote more money to recovering shipwrecks than they expect to.

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(B) goes against the private company’s position. It wants to sell the coins, not preserve them on site.

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(C) is an appropriate response, because it points out that much of the cultural and historical value of coins can be preserved despite commercial exploitation. The main reason we want to preserve UCH is the cultural and historical value of the coins. Saving some samples to study while selling the rest of the coins would not result in any significant loss of cultural and historical value, if those coins are “virtually identical.” If we’ve studied one nickel, one dime, and one quarter, we don’t need to save thousands of other nickels, dimes, and quarters.

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If (D) were true, that would defend the private company from criticism based on the UNESCO conventions. But this is not an “appropriate” response, because we have no reason to believe that it would be true. Does the UNESCO convention apply to agreements that include governments? Why wouldn’t it? (D) is simply making up an exception to the convention. That isn’t appropriate without any support that the exception does or should exist.

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(E) states something that would be false. One of the elements of the draft convention is a prohibition on commercial exploitation of UCH. The company’s plan to sell coins from the shipwreck violates that prohibition. Since (E) is false, it’s not an appropriate response by the company.

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PrepTest 157 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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