Muscle Memory

Answer choices

1. A

   Opposite1% picked this

   It confirms that bodybuilders' experiences should not be accepted at

   Passage B shouldn't be agreeing with the statement. And Passage B was never denying that muscle memory exists, or saying we should doubt the claims of bodybuilders that it does exist.

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2. B

   Opposite: dichotomy16% picked this

   It reflects a dichotomy between athletes' experience and processes occurring at the cellular level

   This answer, like (A), is suggesting that Passage B thinks that even though athletes think muscle memory is real, it's not really real at the cellular level. A dichotomy means a striking difference, and the author wouldn't say there's a striking difference between thinking that your body has muscle memory and what's happening on the cellular level with your muscle cells. Passage B totally accepts that muscle memory is real and provides the emerging cellular explanation for the phenomenon.

   16%
3. C

   Bad Match1% picked this

   It would not be accepted by most athletes who have started retraining after a

   This answer is saying that most athletes who start re-training wouldn't agree that "muscle memory is a puzzling phenomenon". Rephrased, this answer is saying that most athletes who start re-training would say "muscle memory isn't a puzzling phenomenon". Most athletes embarking on re-training will probably say, "Muscle memory seems to exist; seems to be a real thing". But we don't know their opinion on whether or not it's a puzzling phenomenon, because that sentence isn't about whether or not muscle memory exists, it's about how to causally explain that it exists.

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4. D

   Correct80% picked this

   It is less apt now in light of recent research than it was before that

   Why this is right

   As we predicted, passage B would disagree that muscle memory is still a puzzling phenomenon. Its very first sentence says "Pumping up is easier for people who have been buff before (i.e. muscle memory) and now scientists think they know why". That sentence reveals that's it's no longer apt to call it a puzzling phenomenon, but it also reflects that we only recently figured it out.

   Skill tested: Author Opinion · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

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5. E

   Out of Scope: principles of exercise2% picked this

   It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the principles of

   The author of passage B never said anything like, "People only think muscle memory is a puzzling phenomenon because they don't understand principles of exercise psychology". Passage B isn't about psychology at all. It's about the physiological basis of muscle memory that we have recently discovered. Passage B would say, "It stems from a misunderstanding of what happens when muscles atrophy". Researchers had thought previously that the extra nuclei were killed during apoptosis, but a recent study in mice showed otherwise.

   2%