Most Strongly SupportedDiff: Hardest
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: If we could translate everything perfectly, nobody would bother learning foreign languages. Since poetry is the only thing that requires the original language to be fully appreciated, it is the main reason people still study other tongues.
Reasoning: Poetry is the only medium that cannot be translated effectively. People only learn new languages because some content is untranslatable; therefore, poetry provides the primary motivation for language acquisition and poets are the ones who keep languages alive.
Analysis: This is a 'Least Support' question, which functions as the inverse of a 'Must Be True' question; you are looking for the one claim that the text does not justify. The stimulus establishes a very narrow, conditional world where the inability to translate poetry is the sole engine for language preservation. Look for an answer choice that introduces a different reason for learning languages (like business or travel) or suggests that prose can't be translated well either. Such a choice would be unsupported because the text explicitly claims 'only' poetry is untranslatable and 'only' that lack of translation motivates us.
Reasoning: Poetry is the only medium that cannot be translated effectively. People only learn new languages because some content is untranslatable; therefore, poetry provides the primary motivation for language acquisition and poets are the ones who keep languages alive.
Analysis: This is a 'Least Support' question, which functions as the inverse of a 'Must Be True' question; you are looking for the one claim that the text does not justify. The stimulus establishes a very narrow, conditional world where the inability to translate poetry is the sole engine for language preservation. Look for an answer choice that introduces a different reason for learning languages (like business or travel) or suggests that prose can't be translated well either. Such a choice would be unsupported because the text explicitly claims 'only' poetry is untranslatable and 'only' that lack of translation motivates us.
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Unlock Full Passage20.The information above provides the LEAST support for which one of the following?
Correct Answer
B
The passage says poets preserve languages as an effect of poetry’s limited translatability, not that poets write poetry for the purpose of preserving language. It provides no support for a claim about poets’ intentions or purposes.
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