PT158.S2.Q23

PrepTest 158 - Section 2 - Question 23

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Journalist: Support Drivers of sport utility vehicles correctly tend to believe that occupants of such vehicles carry lower risk of serious injury as a result of accidents, and Support such drivers therefore tend to drive less carefully than they would in more traditional vehicles. █████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ███████ ██████████████ █████ ██ ██████ █████ ████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ █████████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ██ ████ ████████

Summary

The author concludes that the discovery of powerful cures for certain forms of cancer could probably lead to an increase in behaviors that are known to increase the risk of such cancers.

Why?

The author relies on an analogy. Drivers of SUVs believe that their occupants have lower risk of injury as a result of accidents; this leads those drivers to drive less carefully than they would if they were driving non-SUVs.

Notable Assumptions

The point of the analogy is that if you know that there’s a lower risk of a certain danger, you’ll be less careful about taking precautions that could also lower that risk. The author thinks this principle applies to cancer — if people know that there’s something available to lower the risk of cancer (such as powerful cures), they’ll be less likely to take other measures that could also reduce the risk of cancer.

The correct answer might frame the principle differently, so let’s keep an open mind. We can’t expect the correct answer to sound exactly like what I’ve described above.

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23.

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a

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b

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c

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d

People generally exercise ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ████ ██ ████ █████ ████████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███████ █████

e

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