Passage 1: henry moore (1898 – 1986 )

Answer: D.

33. Answer: F

Key words: aspects, fewest, believed, these, most important

Paragraph 5: “First he tested some assumptions about which aspects of the story alter least as it evolves, indicating their importance”. This sentence can be paraphrased into “he tested some assumptions about which aspects of the story had fewest alterations/variations, as this would indicate the most important aspects”.

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  variation = alter (alteration)
  

Therefore, the answer is F – ‘variations’.

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  Answer: F.
  

34. Answer: B

Key words: contrary, beliefs, some, included, change,

There is a contrast between what folklorists believe and what Tehrani found. Still in paragraph 5, it is stated: “Folklorists believe that what happens in a story is more central to the story than the characters in it”, while we find in paragraph 6 that “Tehrani found no significant difference in the rate of evolution of incidents compared with that of characters”. This means that he found both incidents (what happens) and characters in a story change over time, not just the characters as suggested by folklorists. Thus, the answer should be something synonymous to ‘incidents’, which can only be B – ‘events’.

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  change over time = evolve (rate of evolution)
  
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  events = incidents
  

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