Critical Reasoning

Columnist: The winner of this year's national spelling bee won by correctly spelling the spoken word Ursprache, which means "fame" in German. Given the richness of our language, why must we resort to words taken from modern foreign languages to challenge our best spellers? Ursprache is listed in our dictionary, as are words from many other foreign languages, but future spelling bees should limit themselves to words in our dictionary that have been anglicized in all aspects because spelling English words, not knowledge of linguistics and international phonetics, is the point of these contests.

Which of the following can most reasonably be inferred from the argument above?
A. The spelling contest winner knew how to spell most of the anglicized words in the dictionary.
B. Foreign words are more difficult than anglicized words for all contestants to spell.
C. Spelling contestant winners should be determined by their facility with all aspects of language.
D. To spell foreign words, contestants must recognize the language and know its pronunciation.
E. The English language contains more borrowed words than most other languages.

OA : after some time

A. The spelling contest winner knew how to spell most of the anglicized words in the dictionary.
INCORRECT. "MOST " IS THE RED FLAG. MORESO, ONE CANNOT SAY FROM THE ARGUMENT THAT THE CONTESTANT KNEW MOST OF THE WORDS.

B. Foreign words are more difficult than anglicized words for all contestants to spell.

IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE ARGUMENT
C. Spelling contestant winners should be determined by their facility with all aspects of language.

PREDICTION. HENCE INCORRECT.
D. To spell foreign words, contestants must recognize the language and know its pronunciation.

CORRECT
E. The English language contains more borrowed words than most other languages.

NOT MENTIONED IN THE ARGUMENT.

Really most of that passage is just added words to make your head spin. What the passage just wants you to know is that

1. Spelling bees should only contain words that are adapted to the English world
2. The reason is because spelling words is the point of the contest not knowing foreign languages

A. Incorrect. This argument has nothing to do with the winner. Just with spelling bees

B. Incorrect. This is a trap answer but you have to realize the use of the word all is far to encompassing here. Perhaps some contestants are knowledgeable in the language.

C. Incorrect. Doesnt talk about different aspects of the language. He is just concerned with words that have been adapted to the English culture

D. Correct. What his reasoning is saying is that the contestant must be knowledgeable in the language to win. He believes that currently the spelling bees are determined in part by "knowledge of linguistics and international phonetics" rather than just spelling English words.

E. Incorrect. He never says this or infers this. Maybe German dictionaries contain even more English words than English ones contain German words.

Answer should be D.

I also want to add that Ursprache doesn't mean fame. It means something different than fame. Ur can be seen as an antecedent/suffix for a word. Ur means old. Sprache means language. So it can be translated into "old language".

Thanks guys
The OA is indeed D[[/spoiler]