PT141.S4.Q7

PrepTest 141 - Section 4 - Question 7

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Summary

The critic comes to two parallel conclusions. The first is that the concert hall isn’t a successful civic building; the support is that it’s far from the center of the city. The second is that the city’s downtown art museum represents a successful civic building; the support is that it encourages social cohesion and enlivens the city.

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The support establishes that the art museum encourages social cohesion and makes the city more alive, but fails to explain how this makes it a successful civic building. We’re never told what it takes to be a successful civic building—in other words, what makes a civil building successful is something that the critic assumes.

The critic’s reasoning conforms to the principle that a civic building should encourage social cohesion and makes the city more alive. The critic claims that the concert hall isn't a successful civil building because it doesn't possess this quality, and that the art museum is successful because it does possess this quality. The correct answer will state an equivalent principle.

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a

A civic building ████ ██ ███████ ██ █ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ██ ████████ █████

b

A city needs ██ ████ █████ █████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██████ █████████

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A civic building ████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ █ ███████████ █████

d

The downtown area ██ █ ████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ █ ███ ████ ███████████ ███ ██████ █████ ██████████

e

The purpose of █ █████ ████████ ██ ██ █████████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██ ████ █ ████ ████ ██████

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