lsat 13 (1.1) questions

1stzhang

Oscar: I have been accused of plagiarizing the work of Ethel Myers in my recent article. But that accusation is unwarranted. Although I admit I used passages from Myers’s book without attribution. Myers gave me permission in private correspondence to do so.

Millie: Myers cannot give you permission to plagiarize. Plagiarism is wrong, not only because it violates author’s rights to their own words, but also because it misleads readers: it is fundamentally a type of lie. A lie is no less a lie if another person agrees to the deception.

6. Millie uses which one of the following argumentative strategies in contesting Oscar’s position?

(A) analyzing plagiarism in a way that undermines Oscar’s position

(B) invoking evidence to show that Oscar did quote Myers’ work without attribution

(C) challenging Oscar’s ability to quote Myers’ work without attribution

(D) citing a theory of rights that prohibits plagiarism and suggesting that Oscar is committed to that theory

(E) showing that Oscar’s admission demonstrates his lack of credibility

这个题目的A和D我没有分开。答案是D

10. Stage performances are judged to be realistic to the degree that actors reproduce on stage the behaviors generally associated by audiences with the emotional states of the characters portrayed. Traditional actors imitate those behaviors, whereas Method actors, through recollection of personal experience, actually experience the same emotions that their characters are meant to be experiencing. Audiences will therefore judge the performances of Method actors to be more realistic than the performances of traditional actors.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) Performances based on an actor’s own experience of emotional states are more likely to affect an audience’s emotions than are performances based on imitations of the behaviors generally associated with those emotional states.

(B) The behavior that results when a Method actor fells a certain emotion will conform to the behavior that is generally associated by audiences with that emotion.

(C) Realism is an essential criterion for evaluating the performances of both traditional actors and Method actors.

(D) Traditional actors do not aim to produce performances that are realistic representations of a character’s emotional states.

(E) In order to portray a character, a Method actor need not have had experiences identical to those of the character portrayed.

这个假设题目相关的选项太多，答案是B.（1）请详细解释  （2）黑体字部分如何理解呢？

Salmonella is a food-borne microorganism that can cause intestinal illness. The illness is sometimes fatal, especially if not identified quickly and treated. Conventional Salmonella tests on food samples are slow and can miss unusual strains of the microorganism. A new test identifies the presence or absence of Salmonella by the one piece of genetic material common to all strains. Clearly, public health officials would be well advised to replace the previous Salmonella tests with the new test.


16. Which one of the following, if true, most substantially weakens the argument?

(A) The new test identifies genetic material from Salmonella organisms only and not from similar bacteria.

(B) The new test detects the presence of Salmonella at levels that are too low to pose a health to people.

(C) Salmonella is only one of a variety of food-borne microorganism that can cause intestinal illness.

(D) The new test has been made possible only recently by dramatic advances in biological science.

(E) Symptoms of Salmonella poisoning are often mistaken for those of other common intestinal illness.

这个题目我觉得A比B好，但答案是B.

cranberry

1,一时还不能弄清。

2，提出一点你来考虑，观众既然根据主观上认为这个角色应该在这种情绪下作出的行为来判断是否表演真实，而体验派的演员因为加入自己的体验而得到观众的认可，则观众根据什么认可的呢？黑体字告诉我们，观众根据他们认为角色应该作出的反应来判断演员的表演是否和他们思想中的真实一致来决定是不是真实。可体验派是自己的感受和经验呀？那么一定是他们根据自身的体验而作出的行为和观众认为的真实一致。

3，A是支持，或说是加强呀？A说明这种检测的准确。

mindfree

1. A确实是迷惑选项, 但是它的问题在于: M的中心论点是"Myers cannot give you permission to plagiarize", 而不是分析plagiarization本身. M的意思是To plagiarize is to lie and it is fundamentally wrong. Myers can not permit you to lie. 如果M说plagiarization就是引用别人的成果但不加""或不标明出处, 所以无论有没有verbal agreement, Oscar都是plagiarize, 那么A就对了.

2. 同意Canberry的意见. 原文还是有逻辑上的gap. 观众根据自己对角色在某种情绪下应有的行为来判断是否realistic. Method actor体会角色的情绪作出行为. 结论是观众认为method actor更realistic. 这里method actor的行为和观众认为应有的行为是两个不同的事物, assumption要将它们联系起来.

A错在"are more likely to affect an audience’s emotions".这里audience's emotion不是判定realistic的标准. 可以说是推理或是原结论的延伸, 做为assumption就是out of scope.无关选项.

C典型的out of scope. 完全在原文的逻辑关系之外. 举简单的例子: 鸡吃富含磷和钙的精饲料下蛋多,所以要想下蛋多, 就要用A饲料而不用B饲料. 这里的assumption就是A比B富含磷和钙, 而不是下蛋多是衡量鸡的唯一标准

D.典型错误答案, A比B好, 不能说明B不好. 举例: 钻石比蓝宝石值钱, 不能说明蓝宝石不值钱.

E. 无关选项. experience在这里和emotion没有联系起来, 我们不知道有无experience对体会emotion的影响. 如果建立起来某种联系, 如没有experience就没有类似的emotion, 那么E与原文相反.

3. A是非常典型的错误答案. 无关并out of scope. 原文中提到的用于衡量检测的标准是:是否能测出大多数的S细菌, 而不是它是否能检测出其它的细菌. 如果原文提到检测方法应该能检测出大部分S细菌和其它的细菌, A才为正确答案.

还要注意一点, B是正确答案是因为原文结论是:"public health officials would be well advised". 如果测出的细菌菌落数值很低, 则推出not well advised. 如果原文的结论改为: public health official can detect unusual bacterial with the new method, B就不是答案.

mindfree

第一题经1stzhang提醒, 标准答案为A.

patrick

能在解释下第一题么？我选的是D，但答案为什么是A呢？