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KarishmaBI feel totally stumped to understand why I faltered in argument understanding and PoE.
Argument understanding:
Quote:
A century in certain ways is like a life,
A century is analogous to life
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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.
(1) Towards end of a century, people have similar reactions for century as a person
who is towards end of his life, e.g. critically injured in an accident and admitted in ICU
Quote:
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 __________.
Key conclusion marker: so
Key comparison marker: just as
Main conclusion: Just as people who are in their last year spend thinking about past events in their lives___
what do people at end of century do?
Well from (1) it clearly folows they people would like to think about events in century.
Which one of the following most logically completes the argument?
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(A) reminisce about their own lives
Why I chose this? Although I knew I was intersted in key word century in answer choices
this choice seemed so tempting since it talks about people thinking about their own lives
and I could not disassociate people's lives and century.
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(D) become very interested in the history of the century just ending
Why I rejected this?
Wait? People are interested in
events that occurred in a centuryas they are interested in events that occurred in past lives.
I guess in spite of such simple language in argument, I was stumped to match my paraphrase
with PoE. Is that correct?
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