LR Question 10 from Prep Test 38....
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:47 pm
Hey guys, below is the question. I got the rest of the section right, but I can't figure out why answer B does not work or why A is a better answer than B. A is the correct answer. Let me know if you have any insight, thanks.
Bernard: For which language, and thus which frequency distribution of letters and letter sequences, was the standard typewriter keyboard designed?
Cora: To ask this question, you must be making a mistaken assumption: that typing speed was to be maximized. The real danger with early typewriters was that operators would hit successive keys too quickly, thereby crashing typebars into each other, bending connecting wires, and so on. So the idea was to slow the operator down by asking the most common letter sequences awkward to type.
Bernard: This is surely not right! These technological limitations have long since vanished, yet the keyboard is still as it was then.
Which one of the following, if true, could be used by Cora to counter Bernard's rejection of her explanation?
A) Typewriters and word-processing equipment are typically sold to people who have learned to use the standard keyboard and who, therefore, demand it in equipment they buy.
B) Typewriters have been superseded in most offices by word-processing equipment, which has inherited the standard keyboard from typewriters.
Bernard: For which language, and thus which frequency distribution of letters and letter sequences, was the standard typewriter keyboard designed?
Cora: To ask this question, you must be making a mistaken assumption: that typing speed was to be maximized. The real danger with early typewriters was that operators would hit successive keys too quickly, thereby crashing typebars into each other, bending connecting wires, and so on. So the idea was to slow the operator down by asking the most common letter sequences awkward to type.
Bernard: This is surely not right! These technological limitations have long since vanished, yet the keyboard is still as it was then.
Which one of the following, if true, could be used by Cora to counter Bernard's rejection of her explanation?
A) Typewriters and word-processing equipment are typically sold to people who have learned to use the standard keyboard and who, therefore, demand it in equipment they buy.
B) Typewriters have been superseded in most offices by word-processing equipment, which has inherited the standard keyboard from typewriters.