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45CHAPTER 14 / PRACTICE PSAT 4
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B
B
In this passage, Aristotle is mentioned pri-
The passage mentions which of the following
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marily because he was
as a reason why people have misconceptions
about language?
(A) a philosopher whose thinking was
flawed
I. an insufficient knowledge of linguistics
(B) an inspiration to Galileo
II. an inability to examine their own
(C) the inventor of the scientific method
thinking
(D) the discoverer of a law of physics
III. the tendency to mystify language
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(E) one who emphasized observation over
(A) II only
logic
(B) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) I and III only
Questions 35– 36 are based on the
(E) II and III only
following passage.
The following passage discusses the role of
language in the study of gender.
The passages below are followed by questions
based on their content or the relationship
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Difficulties in defining
the term language
between the passages. Answer the questions
present the first obstacle to understanding the
on the basis of what is stated or implied in
various claims made about the role of language
the passages or the introductory material pre-
in constructing gender divisions. The literature
ceding them.
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is filled
with many lively debates, between
writers of differing political persuasions and
those with differing disciplinary backgrounds,
and it is difficult to decide which conflicts of
opinion have substance and which arise from
Questions 37–48 are based on the
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different uses of
the word language and from
following passages.
different understandings of what language is. It
The following passages discuss the death rituals
is not difficult to see why there exists a problem
of different cultures throughout history.
of definition. Language, like gravity, is one of
those things with which everyone is familiar
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but few can
adequately describe and explain.
Passage 1
This is a surprising fact considering the
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Our oldest evidence for
our human
intimate part it plays in our lives, but people
predecessors’ attitudes toward death is to be
have less privileged access to many of their own
found in their ways of disposing of dead human
mental processes than they imagine. Perhaps
beings’ bodies. Archaeological evidence seems
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this is one reason
why there are many popular
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to show that funerary
rites were already being
conceptions and misconceptions about
practiced by Neanderthal Man—a now extinct
language, how it works, and how it affects
variety of hominid which was different from,
people. But if there is danger in taking language
though, for all that we know, not older than,
for granted, there is an equal danger of
homo sapiens, the variety to which the present-
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mystification. It
is all too easy to talk about
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day so-called “races”
belong, all alike. Funerary
language in ways which make it appear a
rites are ceremonial practices that are intended
complex, mysterious and paradoxical thing
to express reverence for the person who has
which is beyond the understanding of non-
died, to express grief at the loss of this now dead
specialists.
member of the community, and to express awe
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and concern in the
presence of death itself,
when it is the death of a human being.
B
This passage is primarily concerned with
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The oldest, most numerous, and most
imposing relics of our ancestors are funerary.
(A) explaining the nature of a problem
At different times and places the dead bodies of
(B) defining an important term
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human beings have
been honored in an
(C) describing opposing positions in a
amazing variety of ways. They have been buried
debate
in graves or in tombs or under tumuli or inside
(D) illustrating a theory with examples
(E) providing a historical background
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