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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tract, specifically the small intestine, to absorb gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and certain other grains. The body's immune system attacks the gluten as if the protein were a harmful pathogen, often resulting in serious damage to the intestinal lining. People who suffer from celiac disease must eliminate gluten from their diets. Symptoms of the disease include abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia.

If the statements above are true, which of the following assertions can be made on the basis of them?
1) Anyone who suffers from celiac disease will experience anemia.
Nowhere it is written that all the mentioned symptoms must be seen in all the celiac patients.

2) Eliminating gluten from one's diet will cure celiac disease.
Celiac patients should eliminate gluten from their diet. Whether doing so CURES the disease is not known. It may just reduce the damage, that's all.

3) People experiencing abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia have celiac disease.
Reverse may not be true. Other disease may have the same symptoms.

4) Gluten is found only in grains.
Grain is of course one the sources of gluten, not necessarily the ONLY source. Exaggeration.

5) The human body cannot always recognize harmless substances.
"The body's immune system attacks the gluten AS IF the protein were a harmful pathogen" -- as if means that gluten is NOT harmful OR harmless. Body attacked it means body could not recognize it as harmless.
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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tract, specifically the small intestine, to absorb gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and certain other grains. The body's immune system attacks the gluten as if the protein were a harmful pathogen, often resulting in serious damage to the intestinal lining. People who suffer from celiac disease must eliminate gluten from their diets. Symptoms of the disease include abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia.

If the statements above are true, which of the following assertions can be made on the basis of them?
a)Anyone who suffers from celiac disease will experience anemia.
b)Eliminating gluten from one's diet will cure celiac disease.
c)People experiencing abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia have celiac disease.
d)Gluten is found only in grains.
e)The human body cannot always recognize harmless substances.

any explanation please? why E? i chose B :/


Well, this is a Must be True question. So you Must be able to match the correct answer to all the information as given in the stimuli above (which is all assumed to be true).

What you want to do is eliminate any "Could be true" answers, Exaggerated answers, or "New" information answers.

A) A is exaggerated: It takes the information given about symptoms to the extreme and applies it to all sufferers. So it's untrue.

B) This seems to be true, but is it? Is gluten the ONLY cause for Celiac Disease? Will eliminating it actually "Cure" the disease or just alleviate the symptoms. Is there any other cause of the disease? We can't answer these conclusively so B is wrong.

C) This is a reversal answer. Basically it reverses the symptoms of celiac the other way and is immediately wrong. You could have abdominal cramps, but does that mean you have Celiac disease. Many issues give similar symptoms.

D) Again, we know Gluten is found in grains. But is it found ONLY in grains. We don't know nor are we given this information. Wrong.

E) This is true. We are told that gluten is a harmless protein substance that people with Celiac disease cannot absorb and thus their immune system attacks it. Notice how there are no extremes in this answer. The body cannot always recognize harmless substances. Thus, this is true. Cannot always recognize (true - mostly it's ok: Non-Celiac disease sufferers/ but cannot always: Celiac disease). Harmless substance: Gluten.

So nothing in E violates the statements given in the stimulus. Hence E Must be True.
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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tract, specifically the small intestine, to absorb gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and certain other grains. The body's immune system attacks the gluten as if the protein were a harmful pathogen, often resulting in serious damage to the intestinal lining. People who suffer from celiac disease must eliminate gluten from their diets. Symptoms of the disease include abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia.

If the statements above are true, which of the following assertions can be made on the basis of them?
a)Anyone who suffers from celiac disease will experience anemia.
b)Eliminating gluten from one's diet will cure celiac disease.
c)People experiencing abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia have celiac disease.
d)Gluten is found only in grains.
e)The human body cannot always recognize harmless substances.

any explanation please? why E? i chose B :/



Nope, C is also wrong. If celiac disease, then symptoms including abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia. If A, then B. Not mean that If B, then A. C is reverse answer. Typical wrong answer.

Choice D is totally wrong and partly out of scope. Choice A is also wrong answer choice.

B cannot be answer. If human body has some organisms that has function to filter the gluten as the argument mentioned. Gluten is not the direct cause to disease. The CAUSE here is the "inability...."

Choice E. Here is clue of this choice "The body's immune system attacks the gluten as if the protein were a harmful pathogen"

NOTICE: With must be true question, you should find the clue that exist in the argument. The answer choice can be refer based on the logical flow or simply rephrase again the premises
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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tract, specifically the small intestine, to absorb gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and certain other grains. The body’s immune system attacks the gluten as if the protein were a harmful pathogen, often resulting in serious damage to the intestinal lining. People who suffer from celiac disease must eliminate gluten from their diets. Symptoms of the disease include abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia. If the statements above are true, which of the following assertions can be made on the basis of them?

A. Anyone who suffers from celiac disease will experience anemia.
B. Eliminating gluten from one’s diet will cure celiac disease.
C. People experiencing abdominal cramps, bloating, and anemia have celiac disease.
D. Gluten is found only in grains.
E. The human body cannot always recognize harmless substances.

My ans is E .
A --> wrong . Because it says suffering from celiac will experience anemia . ( Will is strong word to use ) and shows always .
B--> passage saying nothing about curing the celiac . Out of scope
C--> Symptoms can also happen for other diseases .hence wrong
D. Out of scope .

inference question demand for 100% true validity test .

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