LSAT 141 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q5

RC Question 5 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The author is unusually critical of the strict constructionists. See lines 1-9 and 16-21. The strict constructionists contradict Darwin (usually a mistake) and there is ample evidence their view is wrong.

The author also gives no evidence supporting the strict constructionists. They merely describe the strict constructionist views and proceed to prove them wrong.

So the correct answer will be something like “clear disagreement”.

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1. CORRECT. See the analysis above. “Emphatic” means: with emphasis, clear.
2. Too weak. The author doesn’t say a single good thing about the strict constructionists. The author thinks they’re entirely wrong.
3. Nonsense. The author spends most of the passage disagreeing with the strict constructionists. The author definitely isn’t neutral.
4. Rubbish. The author doesn’t say a single nice thing about the strict constructionists, and the author disagrees with them frequently. See the analysis above.
5. Even worse than D. This suggests the author completely agrees with the strict constructions. The opposite is true: they completely disagree. See the analysis above.