AP English Language and Composition 7.6 Passage Drill

okay moving on the chief purpose of the historical

inquiry in paragraphs four through seven beginning line 26 is most likely to what?

and here the potential answers..

all right, well the great Henry Ford famously grumbled history is bunk in other words [Framed picture of Henry Ford]

the past doesn't have much bearing on the present while the author begs to

differ he states that scientific ratiocination a fancy way of saying

observation and reasoning began as blind intellectual instinct or simple [A statue with vague facial features]

observation and eventually came to be viewed as one continuous series of

causes and effects the author that fashionable fellow with killer side burns [A cigarette and a man on fire running away]

was a big proponent of Charles Darwin serious evolution but that doesn't mean [Man with Charles Darwin's head wearing a giant finger]

he's basing the theory of evolution on how science has evolved which means A

can't be the one, option C is referenced in the article in fact it says that

human instinct is the root of historical inquiry but it's just that the root the [Lots of tree roots on a floor]

start, the earliest stages where it all begins not the whole shebang, C is

out of here. Once called natural history the research of organisms habits then

came to be known as natural philosophy and has further progressed to merge with

what we call physical science think of those classes that give us the shivers [girl shivering in class]

just hearing the name like you know biophysics and biochemistry, well these

advanced sciences however been developed in more recent years so the terms [students picking up jars in a laboratory]

physical science and natural history didn't have exactly the same meaning

they do today although, Ford is still Ford.

Alright well E sounds pretty good but the author's point regarding historical

inquiry is not about the series of causes and effects that is phenomena of [A hedgehog on a woods' floor]

nature so we'll nicks E and then there's B this is the last level of our video

game that is historical inquiry of the phenomena of nature again this is just [A mario videogame mushroom]

one piece one part of the bigger picture so B is a no-go and that just leaves D as

the answer in paragraph five our fabulously sideburn friend says it is

only when the mind passes beyond this condition that it begins to evolve

science so the knowledge of science that we know and love today is a result of [woman using a pipette in a lab]

progressing from that blind intellectual instinct the viewing the phenomena of

nature as what it is one continuous series of causes and effects we'll give old

Henry Ford a pass on that whole history is bummed thing, after all he did also say

failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently [Henry Ford wearing a pink bow tie and purple shades]