RC Question 9 Explanation
DISCUSSION: One of these answers has support from the passage, and the other four are designed to trick you. You should always check your answer against the passage. That way you can be 100% certain you’re correct.
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- Lines 7-12 mention the origins of proverbs, but they tell us nothing about proverbs that comes from outside Europe.
- Lines 7-12 tell us that some English proverbs have equivalents in Spanish, but we don’t know if any English proverbs came from Mexican Americans.
- English proverbs are only mentioned in lines 10-12 and line 24. We don’t know much about them. We only know that English shares some proverbs with Spanish, and that English speakers are less likely to use proverbs for education.
- No other ethnic groups are mentioned.
- CORRECT. Lines 21-24 say this is true.
Hello! What skills would you recommend working on to get answers like this correct more often?
Questions like this are just asking you to find a certain fact in the passage. In this case, E is answered by lines 18-24. If possible, on your first reading, try to develop a map of generally what information can be located where in the passage. Then when you encounter a question like this, you have a general idea of where that information is. Another thing to keep in mind with questions like this is to read carefully since the test writers will try to word wrong answers to sound right. For example, some people will lose marks and choose C here because they read the first part (“What kinds of messages and pieces of wisdom are most often communicated by proverbs…”), which sounds right and immediately choose it. For wrong answer choices like C, you need to see the whole thing and spot that it’s talking about the wrong language. Avoid skimming the answer choices to prevent mistakes like this.