lsat 1 (2) questions

1stzhang

[face=Georgia]8. Dr. Sheila Porter plans to run an experiment using nursing students. Each student will be shown either a pleasant nature film or a disturbing horror film. Each student will be observed by someone who—looking only at the student’s facial expressions—must ascertain which film is being shown. Students shown the horror movie are told to hide their feelings in order to convince the observer that they are watching a pleasant film. Dr. Porter hypothesizes that all the students in the experiment who are convincing will be among the best at working with patients. The hypothesis will be tested by comparing the convincing students and unconvincing students in terms of their performance with patents.

Which one of the following incidents best illustrates Dr. Porter’s hypothesis?

(A) Niles, the most convincing student in the experiment, later went on to become a physician.

(B) After graduating, Yoshiro, a nursing student who was convincing in the experiment, helped care for Bram, a patient at a hospital. Bram recovered from his operation.

(C) After graduating, Kim, a nursing student in the experiment who watched the nature film, was removed from the staff of a hospital for unacceptable performance in patient care.

(D) Daria, a nursing student who was convincing in the experiment, later received “A’s” in those classes in which working with patients in a teaching hospital was the sole basis of her grades.

(E) Marite, a nursing student who was not convincing in the experiment, later quit nursing school

这个题目我当时在作题目的时候在B/D之间很犹豫.我选的是B,答案是D.我有两个问题:

(1)B为什么不好?(2)选项D的后半部分如何精确地理解:in which working with patients in a teaching hospital was the sole basis of her grades.



11. Since no one returns from death, we can never be certain about what passes through the mind of the dying person. For the unconscious, the confused, and the heavily sedated, these final moments are probably meaningless. However, for the mentally alert, it is quite possible that death presents itself as an unbelievably glorious experience, a flight into an entirely new universe of sensation. Why should we think so? Some people who have been reprieved from “certain” death at the last moment have experienced what goes through the consciousness of those who are not so fortunate. For example, parachutists who have survived falls report experiences that resemble psychedelic “trips.”

The primary point of the argument in the passage is

(A) no one returns from death

(B) dying can be a glorious experience

(C) we can never know what passes through the mind of a dying person

(D) some people are reprieved from death at the last moment

(E) some people “die”, yet live to report their, experiences.

这个题目我在B/E之间犹豫了很久,结果还是选错了.答案是B,我选的是E.我觉得原文的论证中对E的描述是比较正确的.对B而言很片面.请指点??



If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes—all are direct violations of the injunction to follow nature.

17. Which one of the following is an assumption made by the author of the passage?
这个题目理解的不是那么好！.特别是to what end are all the arts of life?.


25. All of the best comedians have had unhappy childhoods. Yet, many people who have had happy childhoods are good comedians, and some good comedians who have had miserably unhappy childhoods are happy adults.

If the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?

(A) The proportion of good comedians who had unhappy childhoods is greater than the proportion of the best comedians who did.

(B) Some good comedians have had unhappy childhoods and are unhappy adults.

(C) Most of the best comedians are happy adults.

(D) More good comedians have had unhappy childhoods than have had happy childhoods.

(E) The proportion of comedians who are happy adults is higher than the proportion who are unhappy adults.

这个题目答案是A.我理解的不清楚.选项C/D/E,为什么是正确的呢?[/face]

Robin

我来试着回答一下：
8：Dr. Porter hypothesizes 中的best和选项D中的receive‘A’相对应。比B好
11：我认为E是论据
25：问题是can not be ture, 题干没有排除CDE正确的可能性
另外，我这几天也在第二次从头开始作LSAT，大家多交流

1stzhang

再顶一下，哪位牛牛再讲讲！

lyricling

zhang 弟，偶又来了！

1,　8题
本题的原文：Dr.P 设计一个实验来检测护士生。让这些护士生看pleasure电影or 恐怖电影。并且让那些看了恐怖电影的护士生在别人面前努力隐藏自己的感受，以便让别人相信他看的不是恐怖电影而是pleasure电影。Dr.P说那些能够很好隐藏自己的感受的护士生也能够 among the best at working with patient.
问：下面那个例子最能够说明Dr.P的假设？
B：Y学生在实验中表现出色，毕业后Y helped care patient Bram, Bram后来在他的护理下康复了。这里只讲了Y在毕业后护理病人，并没有讲他是否 working with patient best.
D: D学生在实验中表现出色，后来D在那些仅将working with patents 作为评分标准的课程中得了“A”。也就是说D在实验中表现出色，后来他也能够working with patient best.

2，问题问的是原文的　primary point。
这段文字的primary point是however后的内容，B正确。而E只讲了原文中提到的一个事实。
上一个贴子里我讲了自己关于如何做这些中心思想题的一点体会，不知你可同意？

3，对不起，这句话我也翻译不好。我理解原文的结论就是第一个反问句，意思就是artificial is better than natural.

4,　原文推理如下：
(1) best comedians → unhappy childhoods
(2) some happy childhoods →　good comedians
(3) some good comedians + unhappy childhoods → happy adults
问：哪一个不可能从原文推出？（找一个与原文推理矛盾的项，并不是要找一个可以从原文推出的项）

A：good comedians + unhappy childhoods的比例　＞ best comedians + unhappy childhoods 的比例。
原文推理  (1)得出     best comedians 百分百 unhappy childhoods;
原文推理　(2)+(3)得出   一些good comedians有happy childhoods，一些good comedians　有　unhappy childhoods. 所以good comedians 当然不能百分百地 unhappy childhoods.
所以A项与原文明确矛盾。

B： 原文推理(3) some good comedians + unhappy childhoods　→ happy adults
我们将“some good comedians + unhappy childhoods”理解成“good comedians + unhappy childhoods”这个全集的一个子集W，W可以是happy的。
我们可以将B项“some good comedians + unhappy childhoods”理解成全集的另一个子集X，X当然可以是unhappy的。
所以B项与原文不矛盾。

C：
原文(1)+(3)
(1)    best comedians → unhappy childhoods
(3) some good comedians + unhappy childhoods → happy adults
best comedians → good comedians(common sense), 而一些good comedians + unhappy childhoods → happy adults ，那当然有可能most best comedians → happy adults
C项与原文不矛盾

D：good comedians + unhappy childhoods ＞　good comedians + happy childhoods
找找看，与原文三个推理的哪一个矛盾？没有

E：comedians + happy adults占comedians的比例＞comedians + unhappy adults　占comedians的比例。
原文只讲了best comedians 和good comedians,至于comedians总体情况如何，原文没有讲。所以E项的结论自然也是有可能的。

不晓得我想得对不对，不过要讲清楚确实有点费劲。这种题只要推不出与原文明确相反的推理就是can be true 的。

1stzhang

lyricling .再次鼓掌为谢

joywzy

lyricling，在哪里啊？能不能链接一下？谢谢。

上一个贴子里我讲了自己关于如何做这些中心思想题的一点体会，不知你可同意？

lyricling

对不起，我有点菜，不知道怎样链接。给你拷过来吧。如下：


我做这种中心思想归纳题的时候，都是把它当作句子作用题在做。原文中除了结论就是证据。如果文中没有however,这种题的中心思想一般都在头或尾，如果有however，中心思想就在however后。

一点小心得，请多多指教！

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-6-7 23:14:57编辑过]

joywzy

谢谢lyricling，这个法子好。一般情况下，皆可，但要小心，有时，会在段中。

lyricling

You are right.
thank you.