Information and IdeasHardCompleting a line of reasoning
Information and Ideas practice question
Studies of bilingual children find that they tend to know fewer words in each of their two languages than monolingual children of the same age know in their single language. Yet when the words a bilingual child knows in both languages are counted together, ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the combined total is typically as large as, or larger than, a monolingual child's vocabulary.Correct
- B. the total is still smaller than a monolingual child's vocabulary.
- C. the child usually forgets one of the two languages.
- D. the gap between the two groups grows wider.
Answer: A. the combined total is typically as large as, or larger than, a monolingual child's vocabulary.
'Yet' signals that the combined count will reverse the impression given by the per-language count. The natural completion is that adding both languages closes or overturns the gap.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the total is still smaller than a monolingual child's vocabulary.
- If the total were still smaller, there would be no reversal for 'yet' to signal.
- C. the child usually forgets one of the two languages.
- Forgetting a language has nothing to do with counting vocabulary across both.
- D. the gap between the two groups grows wider.
- A widening gap would contradict the turn that 'yet' announces.
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