ganand wrote:
Historian: Radio drama requires its listeners to think about what they hear, picturing for themselves such dramatic elements as characters’ physical appearances and spatial relationships. Hence, while earlier generations, for whom radio drama was the dominant form of popular entertainment, regularly exercised their imaginations, today’s generation of television viewers do so less frequently.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the historian’s argument?
(A) People spend as much time watching television today as people spent listening to radio in radio’s heyday.
(B) The more familiar a form of popular entertainment becomes, the less likely its consumers are to exercise their imaginations.
(C) Because it inhibits the development of creativity, television is a particularly undesirable form of popular entertainment.
(D) For today’s generation of television viewers, nothing fills the gap left by radio as a medium for exercising the imagination.
(E) Television drama does not require its viewers to think about what they see.
Source: LSAT 60
Dissecting given options:
A). No comparison of time given. Out of scope.
B). Again, not stated anywhere. Out of scope.
C). Judgement. Not in the passage.
D). Let's counter this: If something else is filling the gap and lets people exercise their imaginations (eg.- iPad, smartphones, PC, etc.); then only would the author's argument be valid. This is precisely the option we are looking for.
CORRECT.
E). It says '
does not' whereas the author is assuming '
less than what radio drama does'. You get the point.
Hope it helps.