LSAT 139 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q4

RC Question 4 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The two uses of the word community are different:

• The first one talks about sprawl towns, which New Urbanists don’t consider to be real communities.
• The second talks about real communities, which have town squares and local pubs.

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1. The meanings of the two usages are very different. See the discussion above.
2. CORRECT. This works. The New Urbanists think that real communities have shared experience, whereas the suburban “communities” in line 2 are just collections of houses and roads.
3. This isn’t even close. The first reference doesn’t mention community interests; it just talks about low density suburbs. The second doesn’t talk about people having anything in common besides having a town square.
4. The author never said that people in suburban communities are segregated by professional or personal ties. They’re just separated by “economic segregation”, which could refer to a variety of things, such as income.
5. Nonsense. The point of the passage is that traditional communities have diversity. And the second reference was describing a traditional community, not people with similar backgrounds and lifestyles.