Reading Comprehension

PT159 · S4 · P4 · Q25 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.

25.

The author calls reports that physicists are close to arriving at a "theory of everything" misleading because

  1. it is impossible, even in

    Trap

    10% picked this

  2. such a theory would be

    Trap

    25% picked this

  3. not everything is made up

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. Correct

    such a theory would be

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    62% picked this

  5. modern science is primarily concerned

    Trap

    1% picked this

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