chandru42 wrote:
The ability to access information via computer is a tremendous resource for visually impaired people. Only a limited amount of printed information is accessible in braille, large type, or audiotape. But a person with the right hardware and software can access a large quantity of information from libraries and museums around the world, and can have the computer read the information aloud, display it in large type, or produce a braille version. Thus, visually impaired people can now access information from computers more easily than they can from most traditional sources.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A) A computerized speech synthesizer is often less expensive than a complete library of audiotapes.
B) Relatively easy-to-use computer systems that can read information aloud, display it in large type, or produce a braille version of it are widely available.
C) Many visually impaired people prefer traditional sources of information to computers that can read information aloud, display it in large type, or produce a braille version of it.
D) Most visually impaired people who have access to information via computer also have access to this same information via more traditional sources.
E) The rate at which printed information is converted into formats easily accessible to visually impaired people will increase.
We need to strengthen the following argument:
visually impaired people can now access information from computers more easily than they can from most traditional sources.
I started from #5 and worked my way up.
#5 is about how the speed of conversion will change in the future, but it is not relevant to the issue at hand. Wrong.
#4 is not a positive. Wrong.
#3 isn't positive either. Wrong.
#2 is about a positive of computers
now. Keep it.
#1 seems like it is a positive, but this conclusion is about access. Further, Audiotapes are just
one traditional source. This very prompt mentions a few others as well. Eliminate.
It's #2/B.