Answers of What’s the Purpose of Gaining Knowledge with Explanation

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Answer of What’s the Purpose of Gaining Knowledge with Explanation

• The answers will not come in the same order in the text as the order of the list of statements.
• You may not need to read all paragraphs, first see the question which states the paragraphs you need to find headings for
• The answer, sometimes, will not necessarily be in the main idea of a paragraph
• Do this question first.
• Expect lots of synonyms.
• You can narrow down the match of statement and paragraph by a process of elimination. For any specific statement, there will be options that are clearly not a match.
• Take more time than other questions to complete.
• There are more headings than paragraphs.
• Headings that only include specific details rather than the main idea may mislead you
• Do not try to match the heading with the same words that are in the paragraph.
• The first sentence is not always enough to find a perfect heading.
• Pay attention to the headings that are similar to one another.
• Skim the paragraph to get a general idea.
• You should either use numerals (i.e., i or v) or letters (i.e., a, b, c) when listing the headings
• Read all the headings before picking anyone.

Answer	27 vi
Keywords
Location	Look in Sect A
Explanation	In section A, the author mentions the idea of the founding of a special institution, its possible majors and possible titles for a wide variety of courses. Therefore, we should pay attention to headings related to those contents so the answer is vi.

Answer	28 viii
Keywords
Location	Look in Sect B
Explanation	Section B is about targeting students of the course because of the opening: “the course is intended for prospective arson investigators”. Then the author asks a question: “But wouldn’t this also be the perfect course for prospective arsonists to sign up for?” in order to point out the possibility of attracting the wrong kind of student. The course might attract students interested in starting fires, not fighting fires. Therefore, the answer is viii.

Answer	29 ii
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Location	Look in Sect C
Explanation	Section C tells us about the author and his story about the title of the course. There are 2 remaining headings that could be related to a title – ii and vii. Since, in this section, the author only mentions one confusing title that could be understood by his students in two different ways, because of the the two meanings of ‘principles’, therefore the answer has to be “a course title with two meanings”.

Answer	30 iv
Keywords
Location	Look in Sect D
Explanation	Section D is a very short paragraph. You can look at all the headings and cross out the ones you know are wrong for sure. For example, in section D the author does not mention any course or commitment, so the heading cannot be i – “Courses that require a high level of commitment”. Do the same with other headings, you can find out that only heading iv – “Applying a theory in an unexpected context” still remains. The theory referred to is the idea of the philospher Kant that any body of knowledge is principled. The author writes that this sounds “downright crazy in the light of the evidence”, which has the same meaning as “an unexpected context” when applied to an unethical practice like marketing.

Answer	31 iii
Keywords
Location	Look in Sect E
Explanation	In this section, the author mentions two terms in marketing, means and end, in conclusion, he supposes that “A field of knowledge or a professional endeavor is defined by both the means and the end; hence both deserve scrutiny”, which means that both terms are equally important. Therefore, the answer is “the equal importance of two key issues” (iii) “how to achieve X and what X is”.

Answer	32
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Location	Look in Para F
Explanation	In this section, the author gives the example of a doctor and a murderer. Both may learn the same body of knowledge, but they apply that knowledge for different purposes/ends. We give different names: we say that the doctor is practicing medicine and we say that the other is practicing murder. The author does not mention anything related to “a high level of commitment” (heading i) and “financial benefits” (heading v). Therefore, the most accurate heading for this section is “Different names for different outcomes” (vii). The doctor and the murderer use “identical knowledge to achieve their divergent ends”.

Answer	33 fire science
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities:
Location	Look in Sect 1
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “Any undergraduates who have met the academic requirements can sign up for the course in our program in ‘ fire science ’.” Therefore, students who can sign up for the course are undergraduates and ones who are studying “fire science”.

Answer	34 investigators.
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities:
Location	Look in Sect 2
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “Naturally, the course is intended for prospective arson investigators”.

Answer	35 evidence.
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities:
Location	Look in Sect B
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “who can learn all the tricks of the trade for detecting whether a fire was deliberately set, discovering who did it, and establishing a chain of evidence for effective prosecution in a court of law.” A fire was deliberately set” can be considered as an example of criminal intent – the arsonist deliberately intended to start a fire. Then the course can help them to detect whether it is deliberate or not, who did it and find a chain of evidence.

Answer	36 prosecution
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities:
Location	Look in Sect B
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “establishing a chain of evidence for effective prosecution in a court of law”. We can consider “effective” as “successful”, and “in a court of law” as “in the courts”. Therefore, the answer is “prosecution”.

Answer	37 Not Given
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities: attract, students, courses, careers
Location
Explanation	There is no sentence telling us about difficulties in attracting students onto such courses.

Answer	38 Yes
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities: Arson for Profit
Location	Look in Sect F
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “As we have seen, someone could use the very same knowledge of means to achieve a much less noble end, such as personal profit via destructive, dangerous, reckless activity”.

Answer	39 No
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities: Fire science courses, good at the job
Location	Look in Sect B
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “They will be qualified to do the job in a professional and expert way: “programs in fire science: they are highly welcome as part of the increasing professionalization of this and many other occupations”.

Answer	40 No
Keywords	Scan for the keywords, synonyms and similarities: fire science, , purpose , studies.
Location	Look in Sect F
Explanation	Read this line intensively, “When I ask fire science students to articulate the end, or purpose, of their field, they eventually generalize to something like, ‘The safety and welfare of society,’ which seems right.” They only “generalize”, which means “to make a general statement or form a general opinion”. Their opinion is only general, not detailed or particularly clear. Therefore, the answer is No. Provide a detailed definition of = to articulate