complete the following 2

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complete the following 2

by sq720 » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:19 am
10. Advertisers have learned that people are more easily
encouraged to develop positive attitudes about things

toward which they originally have neutral or even
negative attitudes if those things are linked, with
pictorial help rather than exclusively through prose, to
things about which they already have positive attitudes.
Therefore, advertisers are likely to _______.
Which one of the following most logically completes

the argument?
(A) use little if any written prose in their
advertisements
(B) try to encourage people to develop positive
attitudes about products that can be better
represented pictorially than in prose
(C) place their advertisements on television rather
than in magazines
(D) highlight the desirable features of the advertised
product by contrasting them pictorially with
undesirable features of a competing product
(E) create advertisements containing pictures of
things most members of the target audience
like

E what is wrong with A.
can someone explain how to tackle these types of questions. I tend to get these wrong often........
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by DanaJ » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:55 am
E is correct because it is a natural consequence of what was stated before: people react better when they see pictures of things that they like, so advertisers are likely to take advantage of this information.

A is not correct because we are told in line 5 about advertisements containing "exclusively prose", which means ads that are based solely on writing (no pictures at all). Prose is therefore not "banned" from ads, it's just better to use images. Ads will likely contain some form of prose.

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by pandeyvineet24 » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:08 am
Picked E. It says that advertisers are going to present Pictorial presentation of things that target audience likes (covering the main point of the argument)

A is incorrect as precisely mentioned by DanaJ..

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by gmatmachoman » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:26 am
Yeah I too picked E!!

@DanaJ..Sorry for that "dude" thing instead of "dudette"..

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by ershovici » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:56 pm
I choose E

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by khanshainur » Mon May 16, 2016 12:05 am
I still feel E should be the answer