Given the passage's content and tone, which one of the following statements would most likely be found elsewhere in a...
shafieiavaJanuary 4, 2020
Approach to this question? Extension type?
Can someone please explain how they would approach this question and arrive at the correct answer choice? It seems that correct answer choice is outside of the scope of the passage, as I can't find textual evidence that would indicate that the author is trying to make a prescriptive argument about what companies should do. Any help on how to approach this question and explanation of why A is the correct answer choice would be helpful. Thanks in advance!
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The question asks, "Given the passage’s content and tone, which one of the following statements would most likely be found elsewhere in a work from which this passage is an excerpt?"
This is a type of inference question, as it's asking us to imagine a longer version of the passage and then pick the answer that would be the one most likely to be found in this extended version of the passage, given its content and tone. The correct answer choice must relate to the information we know regarding the author's attitude, primary purpose, and main point of the passage.
For this question, the wrong answer choices are going to be either misrepresenting the author's attitude or introducing topics that this passage didn't or wouldn't discuss.
In looking at (A), it states, " Given the law as it stands, corporations concerned about preserving trade secrets might be best served by giving their employees strong incentives to stay in their current jobs."
(A) is supported by the passage's tone and content because it reflects the overall point of the passage and is also similar to the attitude the author demonstrates. The passage's main point is that injunctions probably do not protect a corporation's trade secrets. (A) says that given the inability to protect trade secrets through inunctions, corporations that are concerned about preserving their trade secrets might be better off convincing their employees to stay in their current jobs. This statement is consistent with the passage's main point, and it also does a good job in reflecting the author's attitude from the passage. Because this is an inference question, we're likely not to find textual support explicitly supporting any of the answer choices. However, with (A), it does go along with the main point as well as the author's attitude, so this is why we can infer (A) would be found elsewhere in a work from which this passage is an excerpt.
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