June 2007 PrepTest, Section 2, Question 3
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
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Hopefully, you tried to fill in the blank before looking at the answer choices. Here, it says that a century is like a person’s life. Therefore, just as you look back at your life during the last few years of it, you would likely look back at the events that occurred in the century during the last few years of that century.
A
Nope, it should be about the century.
B
No. Like A, it needs to focus on the century.
C
No. If centuries are like lives, you wouldn’t focus on the next life.
D
Yup, this is it. People near the end of their life suddenly want to look back at their past. Similarly, near the end of a century, people suddenly want to look back at that century.
E
No, the passage didn’t say people do this near the end of their lives.
Hopefully, you tried to fill in the blank before looking at the answer choices. Here, it says that a century is like a person’s life. Therefore, just as you look back at your life during the last few years of it, you would likely look back at the events that occurred in the century during the last few years of that century.
A
Nope, it should be about the century.
B
No. Like A, it needs to focus on the century.
C
No. If centuries are like lives, you wouldn’t focus on the next life.
D
Yup, this is it. People near the end of their life suddenly want to look back at their past. Similarly, near the end of a century, people suddenly want to look back at that century.
E
No, the passage didn’t say people do this near the end of their lives.
Passage
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of
Question 3
Which one of the following most logically completes the argu