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Reading Comprehension · Strengthen

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 20

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Strengthen
The one idea it tests
If the author complains that a kind of evidence is missing, that evidence would win the author over.
The basic logic
Find the author's specific complaints about the popular view. One complaint is a missing link of a particular kind. The right answer supplies exactly that missing link, using the sort of evidence the author asked for.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “however”
  • “lacking”
  • “never linked”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, Lulu complains there are hardly any scuff marks from games in or around the spots. Finding those marks would push her toward the game view.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 15–22). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Bald Spots on the Big Field →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage would be more likely to accept the game view if which were found?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 20 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 20 in your official copy and answer it first.

List exactly what the author says is weak or missing about the view. Then look for the choice that fills one of those named holes with the very kind of evidence described as lacking. Avoid choices that repeat evidence the author already found ambiguous, or that would point to a different cause.