PT138.S3.Q8

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PrepTest 138 - Section 3 - Question 8

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Some claim that migratory birds have an innate homing sense that allows them to return to the same areas year after year. ████████ █████ ██ ██████ ████████ ██ ███████ ████ ███████ █████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ███████ ███ █████████████ █████ ████ █████ ███ ██████ ████████ █████ ██████████ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ████ ██ ██████ █████ ██ █████████ ██████ ███████ ████ ████ █████ ███ ████ ████ █████ █████

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

The author concludes that there’s not much evidence to support the belief that migratory birds have an innate homing sense that allows them to return to the same places each year. The author supports her conclusion by pointing out that the studies exploring whether birds have an innate homing sense don’t rule out other potential explanations for how the birds might navigate. Because these studies are inconclusive, there’s not much evidence for the belief.

Identify Conclusion

The conclusion is the author’s assertion that there’s not much evidence to support the belief that migratory birds have an innate homing sense: “there is little evidence to support this belief.”

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Which one of the following ██████████ ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ████ ██████████ █████ ██ ███ █████████

Neither migratory birds ███ ██████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████ ██████

This goes too far. The author never asserted that birds don’t have an innate homing sense. Only that there’s not much evidence for it.

There is as ███ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████ ██████

This is a paraphrase of the main conclusion that there’s not much evidence to support a belief in migratory birds’ innate homing sense.

Studies testing whether ███ ████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██ ██ ██████ ██████ █████ ███ █████████████

This is support for the author’s conclusion. The author uses the fact that the studies are inconclusive to argue that there’s little evidence to support a belief in migratory birds’ innate homing sense.

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The author never stated or implied this, so it can’t be the conclusion. The author uses the possibility of navigation by landmarks to explain how the studies are inconclusive, which in turn supports the conclusion.

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This goes too far. The author never suggests that it’s false to think birds have an innate homing sense. She concludes only that there’s not much evidence for this belief.

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91% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 134

143

75% 151

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Main conclusion or main point

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Analogy

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91%

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153

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