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Summary
English literature reflects the rich and diverse vocabulary of the English language. This richness and diverse vocabulary were caused by influences from the Anglo-Saxon and French languages. The French language is a direct descendant of Latin, and was not influenced by the Celtic language.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The nature of English literature was influenced by the Anglo-Saxon and French languages.
A
The origin of English played a role in shaping English literature.
The nature of English literature was caused by the English language being influenced by the Anglo-Saxon and French languages.
B
The vocabulary of the Anglo-Saxon language was richer than that of the French language.
We don’t know how the richness of the Anglo-Saxon language compares to the French language. We only know that these two languages influenced the richness and diverse vocabulary of the English language.
C
The vocabulary of English is larger than the vocabulary of French.
We don’t know how the size of vocabulary compares between the French and English languages. We only know that the English language has a diverse vocabulary, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the French language does not.
D
Simple and clear literature cannot be written in a language with a rich and diverse vocabulary.
We don’t know if it is impossible to write simple and clear literature with a language that has a rich and diverse vocabulary. We know that French literature is simple and clear, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that English literature is not.
E
English literature and French literature have had little influence on one another.
We don’t in what way, if any, English and French literature are connected. We only know that the French language, in part with the Anglo-Saxon language, influenced the English language.
Summary
The difference between manners and morals is that manners are necessarily social in natural whereas morals are not necessarily social in nature. Therefore, the rules of etiquette do not apply when someone is alone.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
If a situation involves etiquette, then that situation involves manners.
If a situation is social, then a person in that situation cannot be alone.
There are some situations involving morality that are not social in nature.
If a situation is social, then a person in that situation cannot be alone.
There are some situations involving morality that are not social in nature.
A
One could be immoral without ever having caused any other person any harm.
This answer is strongly supported. If morals do not necessarily require any social situation, then there are some situations of morality that are not social in nature. Therefore, someone could act immorally and not affect another person.
B
No immoral act could be a violation of the rules of etiquette.
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus never provided a connection between morality and manners. There could be some situations that involve both morality and manners.
C
The rules of morality apply only when one is alone.
This answer is unsupported. We know from the stimulus that morals are not necessarily social in nature. This does not mean that there are no situations involving morals that are social. It only means that social connections are not required for morals.
D
It is more important to be moral than to have good manners.
This answer is unsupported. The author never makes a value judgement about whether morals or manners are more important.
E
What is social in nature could not be a matter of morality.
This answer is unsupported. We know from the stimulus that morals are not necessarily social in nature. This does not mean that there are no social situations that involve morals. It only means that social connections are not required for morals.
Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
People in charge of a tourist attraction hypothesize that visitors illegally sold or shared passes to the attraction in the past year. This is because hotel and restaurant revenues increased more than did revenue from the attraction itself.
Notable Assumptions
The people in charge of the tourist attraction assume that the only reason anyone would use the nearby hotels and restaurants is to go to the tourist attraction. In other words, these people believe that there should be a 1:1 correlation in how rapidly revenue rises for the tourist attraction, and how rapidly revenue rises for nearby restaurants and hotels.
A
During the past year other tourist attractions have opened up in the area.
If other tourist attractions opened up in the area, then they’re probably attracting visitors who don’t also visit the tourist attraction in question. This weakens the 1:1 correlation the people talking in the stimulus seem to think must exist.
B
Those possessing passes made more frequent trips to the attraction last year than in previous years.
Revenue for passes didn’t increase at the same rate as hotels and restaurants since people holding passes visited more frequently. They spent money on hotels and restaurants each trip, but not on a tourist attraction pass.
C
While the cost of passes is unchanged since last year, hotel and meal prices have risen.
Hotels and restaurants charge more than they did the year before, while the tourist attraction costs the same. Thus, all things being equal, revenue for the former increased more rapidly than the latter.
D
The local board of tourism reports that the average length of stay for tourists remained unchanged over the past year.
This doesn’t explain why hotel and restaurant revenue would’ve risen more rapidly than tourist attraction revenue. It simply states that one possibly important factor has in fact stayed the same.
E
Each pass contains a photograph of the holder, and during the past year these photographs have usually been checked.
This suggests that selling or sharing the passes wouldn’t work. There must be some other reason why tourist attraction revenue hasn’t risen as rapidly as hotel and restaurant revenue.
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