Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 17 says, what does the author suggest primarily motivates men's behavior toward women? 2 So let's look back in the passage and we can find that the only 3 kind of outline of men's behavior specifically and motivations 4 behind it comes starting in line 49. 5 So this piece of evidence says, man says you shall be initiated in all 6 the arts of pleasing, but you shall in vain hope that we will contribute 7 to your happiness. One iota beyond the principle, 8 which constitutes our home. So again, the reason that we know that this is 9 the evidence we're supposed to be looking out to answer this question is because 10 it's the only thing that directly references specific actions. 11 So again, 12 just looking at what this is saying, 13 we can see that they're not going to act in a way such 14 as to decrease their own happiness, 15 right? The work so hard, so much as to increase their happiness, 16 but the minute that it becomes costly to them, they're going to stop. 17 So let's look at the answer choices here, 18 and we can see that answer choice a says a selfish desire, 19 selfish desire to deprive women of even the smallest joy answer choice is going 20 to be incorrect. You might be, you would be able to say that a 21 selfish desire is right here, right? They do have a selfish desire of maintaining 22 their own happiness, but it's not necessarily to deprive women. 23 It's not about the women. It's about themselves. That's what makes it selfish. 24 So the second part of th...