#19 - Global Reference, Parallel

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Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (B).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[ToddVanV]

Can you provide a detailed explanation why B is the correct answer and why C can not be the correct answer?

[Jeremy Press]

Hi Todd,

To prephrase on these Parallel questions in Reading Comprehension, first articulate a high-level abstract description of the elements the question asks you to parallel from the passage. Here, we want to articulate a high-level abstract of Passages A and B that lets us better see the relationship between them (and thus find a similar relationship).

Passage A's newspaper article is a description of an example of the recovery of UCH (involving a joint effort).
Passage B's Draft Convention is a definition and set of principles intended to guide recoveries of UCH.

So, I'm looking for a pair of documents that provide me with (1) an example of an approach to an issue and (2) the principles guiding the approach to that issue.

Answer choice B is correct because the first document described is a descriptive example (a magazine, like the newspaper in Passage A, that is describing the specific approach of an architect or architectural firm to an example building project), and the second document described is a set of principles broadly guiding the approach to the same thing (codes governing building projects).

Answer choice C is incorrect because, although the first document does give a description of a specific approach to an agreement to work on a project, the second document is not a set of broad principles guiding the approach to such agreements or projects. Rather, the second document in answer choice C is for the specific project (the same project) that the first document in answer choice C is about. But the principles in Passage B were not just principles for the specific Sussex project, rather they were general principles governing any project of excavating UCH.

[muhammadtheahmed]

Whats wrong with E? The first half shows whats being done as an example and the second half represents passage B by showing what will guide the process

[Jeff Wren]

Hi Muhammad,

To correctly answer this question, it's important to very carefully note who is writing the documents as well as what their purpose is.

In the passages, Passage A is a newspaper article. (This is specifically mentioned at the top of the page and can be easy to miss if test takers just dive right into Passage A without reading the description.) A newspaper article is written by a third party reporting on the events (meaning not one of the parties involved in the events).

In Answer E, the first document is a joint press release by the two parties that worked together on the architectural project. This is not parallel to Passage A and is enough to make this answer incorrect. For this to be parallel, Passage A would have had to be written by the two parties involved, meaning the company recovering the Sussex treasure and the British government.

As discussed in Jeremy's post above, the magazine article in Answer B matches Passage A much better than Answer E does because Answer B also is written by a third party reporting on the issue. (The fact that it is a magazine article rather than a newspaper article is not a problem, as they are both similar enough in the context of the question.)