PT143.S4.Q22

PrepTest 143 - Section 4 - Question 22

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Librarian: Some argue that the preservation grant we received should be used to restore our original copy of our town's charter, since if the charter is not restored, it will soon deteriorate beyond repair. ███ ████ █████████ ████████ █████████████ ██████████ ███ ██ █████████ ██████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██████████ █████ ██ ███ █ ████████ ███████ ███ ███ █ ███████ ███ █████ █████ ██ ██████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ████ ████ ███████████ █████████ ██████

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

Other people think that a preservation grant should be used to restore the original copy of our town’s charter. The author concludes that the money should instead be spent preserving other documents. This is because the town charter has no scholarly value, and we are a research library, which implies that we should care more about documents that have scholarly value.

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The referenced text is the reason that other people believe we should use the grant to restore the original copy of our town’s charter.

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22.

The claim that the town's ████████ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ██████ █████ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ███ ███████████ █████████

a

It is a █████ ████ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██████

The author doesn’t disagree that the charter will deteriorate beyond repair if not restored. The author disagrees with the recommendation that we should restore the original version of this charter.

3%
b

It is the ██████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████████

The referenced text is not the conclusion that the author rejects. It’s the premise that other people use to support the conclusion that the author rejects.

7%
c

It is a ███████ ██ ██ ████████ █████ ██████████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ █████████

This accurately describes the role. Other people use the fact the charter will soon deteriorate to support a recommendation that we should restore the charter. The author rejects this argument.

85%
d

It is a ███████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███████████

The referenced text does not support the author’s conclusion. It supports other people’s conclusion, which the author rejects.

3%
e

It is a █████ █████ █████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ █████████

The referenced text is not required for the author’s conclusion. Even if the town charter wouldn’t deteriorate, it can still be true that the preservation grant would be better spent preserving other documents.

2%

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