Q7

[maryadkins]

7. (A)
Question Type: Inference
We are asked to determine why the author of Passage B compares the ants to a "live computer." When we look back at the passage, as we generally should do for identification questions, we see that the ants are offered as an example of a system that’s large and complex but made up of small parts all following simple rules. The effect is that the ant population looks "as if the whole is thinking, planning, calculating." (A) concisely captures the purpose of the analogy.

(B) is out of scope; the author doesn’t argue this.
(C) is also out of scope; the author doesn’t argue that computers are alive in any sense.
(D) is unsupported. The ants are not offered as an example of what computer systems are trying to simulate.
(E) is also unsupported. The passage is not arguing that the actual rules of the ants are being adapted for computers (though that sounds cool).