Information and IdeasHardInference from a contrast in skill
Information and Ideas practice question
In the cave paintings, the animals are drawn in profile with astonishing accuracy — the weight of a bison, the gait of a horse. The human figures, when they appear at all, are crude stick shapes. Since the same hands evidently could draw well, the difference most likely reflects ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. a choice about what mattered to the painters rather than a limit on their skill.Correct
- B. the painters' inability to draw people.
- C. the absence of other humans from the region at the time.
- D. damage to the human figures over the centuries.
Answer: A. a choice about what mattered to the painters rather than a limit on their skill.
'The same hands evidently could draw well' rules out lack of skill, leaving intention: the painters cared about the animals.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the painters' inability to draw people.
- The text explicitly says the hands could draw well.
- C. the absence of other humans from the region at the time.
- Human figures DO appear, so humans weren't absent.
- D. damage to the human figures over the centuries.
- Nothing suggests the human figures were damaged rather than drawn crudely.
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