harinageshwar wrote:
hi kitipriyanka how come D is wrong for the third question. Can you please elaborate
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Official Explanation
3. The author would state that the categorization used by the theorist of modernization is
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Explanation
The main point of the passage is to question the theorist’s ideas, but this question doesn’t ask for the main point—it asks for a point the author would assert. The second sentence states, “No doubt this scheme works well enough in categorizing some societies...,” so the author agrees with choice (A). This rules out (B), but (C) is ruled out by the case of the Ibo. So is (D)—Ibo society is an empirical test. (E) distorts the reference to the Ibos’ adapting to the post-colonization world, in the next-to-last sentence; the author never implies what (E) says. On the contrary, since the theorist’s categorization doesn’t apply to the Ibo before colonization either, (E) would seem to be ruled out.
Answer: A
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