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ID: DSAT-RW-51
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Information and Ideas
Topic: Inferences
Difficulty level: Medium

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Among animals that coordinate in groups, such as wolves, dolphins, and humans, newborns often show an innate attraction to rhythmic, beat-based sounds. Cognitive scientist Maya Patel and her colleagues played sequences of evenly spaced clicks (regular beat) and irregularly spaced clicks to test whether this bias also occurs in solitary desert rodents that neither live in groups nor engage in coordinated hunting. They found that rodent pups showed a significant preference for the regular-beat sequence, suggesting that _____________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Arhythmic sounds are likely perceived as harmless by newborns of group-living species but as threatening by newborns of solitary species.

Bresearchers should not assume that an innate attraction to rhythmic regularity is necessarily an adaptation for group coordination.

Cresearchers can assume that the attraction to rhythmic sounds seen in group-living species is learned rather than innate.

Dnewly weaned desert rodents show a stronger preference for regular beats than newborn desert rodents do.

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