June 2007 PrepTest, Section 2, Question 3
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of a century approaches, people behave toward that century much as someone who is nearing the end of life does toward that life. So just as people in their last years spend much time looking back on the events of their life, people at a century's end _______.
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of a century approaches, people behave toward that century much as someone who is nearing the end of life does toward that life. So just as people in their last years spend much time looking back on the events of their life, people at a century's end _______.
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of a century approaches, people behave toward that century much as someone who is nearing the end of life does toward that life. So just as people in their last years spend much time looking back on the events of their life, people at a century's end _______.
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of a century approaches, people behave toward that century much as someone who is nearing the end of life does toward that life. So just as people in their last years spend much time looking back on the events of their life, people at a century's end _______.
Which one of the following most logically completes the argument?
reminisce about their own lives
fear that their own lives are about to end
focus on what the next century will bring
become very interested in the history of the century just ending
reflect on how certain unfortunate events of the century could have been avoided
Explanations
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.
Nope, it should be about the century.
Same as A.
Do you focus on what your next life will bring? No.
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.
No, this wasn’t what the passage said people near the end of their lives do.
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