LSAT 153 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q10

RC Question 10 Explanation

DISCUSSION: University lessons were mentioned in paragraph 1. It’s worth quickly skimming that to figure out the context.

Lines 11-13 (middle of paragraph 1) say that there is new interest in studying and preserving native languages. University lessons are mentioned immediately after that. So, it seems university lessons are used as an example of interest in native languages.

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1. Not so. It sounds like this is true, but the author didn’t mention university programs because they’re less successful. For this to be right, the author would have had to have made a direct comparison between different methods.
2. If this had said “one of the efforts to preserve native languages” it would have been correct. I initially misread it as that. But it instead says one of the effects of an attempt.
    
   University lessons aren’t an effect of an attempt. They are the attempt. An affect would be something like “50 new students have learned to speak a native language and start teaching it to others”.
3. CORRECT. This is all. Nothing spectacular. The author was merely saying that native languages are having a resurgence. They then gave three examples: university lessons, recordings of native speakers, and radio stations.
    
   There was no competition, the author merely listed the three to support their claim that native languages were having a resurgence.
4. The passage didn’t mention government officials! Or scholars! It mentioned government policies, and universities.
    
   Those are things, not people. This answer would be like referring to yourself in the third person as “the Law”, when in fact you are merely a lawyer, a person. A government official is a person, and not necessarily the one who makes policies either.
5. The author didn’t link university lessons and radio programming! Lines 19-21 are the lines that explain the popular of radio: it meshes with traditional oral culture. That has nothing to do with universities.