LSAT 140 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q10

RC Question 10 Explanation

DISCUSSION: This question tests the same thing as question 7: did you understand the differences in tone between the two passages?

Passage A is excited about a new phenomenon. Passage B is a scholarly discussion of how to apply the law to this somewhat less new phenomenon.

You can use the scholarly element in passage B to eliminate wrong answers. Only answers A and D have a scholarly second title.

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1. This answer’s title for the first article sounds scholarly. The tone of passage A is more like “woah, there’s artificial intelligence here!”.
2. Both of these titles describe newspaper stories. But the second passage was scholarly.
   Also, the first title should be “Retailers discover e-commerce” and the second should be “how the law applies to e-commerce”
3. The first part is pretty good. The second title is not good however. It describes a newspaper article about a debate between scientists.
4. CORRECT. The first title has the same tone of discovery. The second title has the same tone of scholarly discussion of how to apply the law to a new area.
5. Edward Castronova is notable because he noticed the new online economy. He isn’t a renegade. And the second title describes a newspaper article, not a scholarly article.