Explanation for Question 38 From the Reading Section on the 2019 April Sat
Burke's central claim in the last paragraph is that the British have failed 2 to take effective measures, to safeguard their rights, 3 acted wisely, to revise rather than replace their political system, 4 tried to export their form of government to their neighbors or left their government 5 essentially unchanged for hundreds of years. 6 So let's go to the last paragraph and see what he has to say 7 about the British. He says, 8 I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors, 9 the example of the British constitution, 10 then to make models from them, for the improvement of our own in the 11 former, they have got an invaluable treasure. 12 Then down here, it says, I think our happy situation owing to our constitution, 13 but owing to the whole of it and not to any part singly owing 14 in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews 15 and reformations as well as to what we have altered or super at 16 it. So he is recommending the example that the British have set. 17 And then down here, he refers to our constitution. 18 If we go to this first paragraph, 19 we learn that Burke was British. 20 So we know that when he says our, 21 he is referring to the British constitution and then he is praising 22 it for reviewing and reforming it. 23 So now, if we go back to our answer choices, 24 we can see that his central claim is that the British 25 have acted wisely to revise rather than replace their political system.