LSAT 104 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q24

RC Question 24 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Lowe thought that a settlement was abandoned once people stopped building new monuments (lines 9-10).

In other words, he assumed that people would always build new monuments, as long as they lived in a place. This can be expressed logically:

People live in settlement ➞ New monuments

No new monuments ➞ Nobody lives in settlement

So lack of new activity means that all other activity stops. The right answer has the same structure:

“Lack of new X causes all Y to stop.”

___________

1. In the passage, there were no new monuments. Here’s there just a shortage of food.
2. There’s no change here. The person has only seen the theatre once. There’s no lack of a new _____.
   And this is a really dumb assumption.
   Unfamiliar titles aren’t necessarily foreign.
3. Monuments didn’t change drastically. They just stopped appearing.
4. There’s no lack of new anything here.
5. CORRECT. This is parallel.
   “No new monuments ➞ No more people” and
   “No new stamps ➞ No more collection.”