imhimanshu wrote:
A few people who are bad writers simply cannot improve their writing, whether or not they receive instruction. still, most bad writers can at least be taught to improve their writing enough so that they are no longer bad writers. However, no one can become a great writer simply by being taught how to be a better writer, since great writers must have not just skill, but also talent.
Which one of the following can be properly infered from the passage above?
A). All bad writers can become better writers.
B). All great writers had to be taught to become better writers.
C). Some bad writer can never become great writers.
D). Some bad writers can become great writers.
E). Some great writers can be taught to be even better writers.
General Description: This question asks you to find the response that can be inferred from the given passage. A statement that may well be true, but that is irrelevant to the passage, cannot be the best answer. Even a response that presents information consistent with the passage need not be the best answer. Rather,
the passage must provide grounds or support for inferring the response in order for that response to be the best answer.
A. Incorrect. This statement is contradicted by the first sentence in the passage, which states that there are some bad writers who cannot become better writers.
B. Incorrect. This statement is consistent with the passage. The passage allows the possibility that all great writers had to be taught to become better writers, though it says (in the last sentence) that teaching is not sufficient for becoming a great writer. But the passage also allows the possibility that some great writers did not have to be taught to become better writers. Since both the statement and its opposite are consistent with the passage, the statement in response (B) cannot be inferred from the passage.
C.
Correct. This follows from the first sentence: Since some people are
bad writers who
cannot improve their writing, and since bad writers would have to improve their writing as a
precondition for becoming great writers, it follows that there are some people who are bad writers and who can
never become great writers.
D. Incorrect. Given the passage, there may well be some bad writers who can become great writers, but it might be instead that no bad writers can become great writers. Since both the statement and its opposite are consistent with the passage, the statement in response (D) cannot be inferred from the passage.
E. Incorrect. The passage makes no claims about how a great writer could become an even better writer, so this response cannot be inferred from the passage.
Difficulty Level: Medium difficulty
Tips and Pitfalls: If a question asks what can be properly inferred from the passage, do not choose a response simply because it is consistent with the passage. The correct response will be one that follows logically from the statements in the passage; that is, the one that is consistent with the passage, but whose opposite is not consistent with the passage.
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