Reading Comprehension

PT159 · S4 · P4 · Q24 Predicting Behavior of Complicated Systems

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The success of modern physics has consisted primarily in the analysis of physical reality into its fundamental components.

Your task

Pin down exactly what the question asks about the passage — a detail, the author's view, the structure, or the main point — before looking at the choices.

Common trap

Answers that restate a true detail from the passage but don't answer the specific question being asked.

Winning move

Anticipate the answer in your own words from the passage, then find the choice that matches that prediction.

24.

As it is described in the first paragraph, the "theory of everything" that physicists are pursuing is most like which one of the following?

  1. a theory of botany that

    Trap

    3% picked this

  2. a theory of meteorology that

    Trap

    8% picked this

  3. a theory of literary criticism

    Trap

    17% picked this

  4. Correct

    a theory of economics that

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    63% picked this

  5. a theory of linguistics that

    Trap

    9% picked this

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