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sumidi · Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:39 pm

My answer doesn't agree with OG. Could someone tell what they think the answer is and why...- cheers?

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

At a recent conference on environmental threats the North Sea, most participating countries favored uniform controls on the quality of effluents, whether or not specific environmental damage could be attributed to a particular source of effluent. What must, of course, be shown, in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls, is that ___

A. any uniform controls that are adopted are likely to be implemented without delay.
B. any substance to be made subject to controls can actually cause environmental damage.
C. the countries favoring uniform controls are those generating the largest quantities of effluents
D. all of any given pollutant that is to be controlled actually reaches the North Sea at present
E. environmental damage already inflicted on the North Sea is reversible.

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Jatinder · Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:18 am

IMO A

If uniform controls could be implimented without delay, we can avoid Excessive uniform controls

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stop@800 · Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:27 am

IMO B

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joeo · Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:59 am

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jyotiistalking · Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:36 am

IOB B, The authors point is to avoid restrictive control and that is well communicated by point B

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gmat009 · Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:18 am

IMO B

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rohitkale · Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:47 pm

IMO

B

question asks........what must be shown...to restrict accessive control...

ie...actually to demonstrate..that any particular substance which causes some problem should b restricted and not the substance which dont..

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rohitkale · Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:48 pm

IMO

B

question asks........what must be shown...to restrict accessive control...

ie...actually to demonstrate..that any particular substance which causes some problem should b restricted and not the substance which dont..

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SYim · Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:24 pm

IMO B

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Jatinder · Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:25 am

I understand the rationale behind B

But i think, My thought process of putting A,B and C as contender is wrong
In order to correct my course, I just want to air out what did i think when making A ,B and C as contendors. Pls explain me what went wrong in my thought process.

A--- If uniform controls would not be applied immediately, then North Sea would have been polluted to the alarming extent. So we need to put restrictive controls in this case...thus employing the uniform controls immediately would avoid the restrictive control

C-- If the uniform controls have been applied to the countries emitting very less effluent, the North sea again would be polluted to the alarming level in no time and thus , we need to incorporate restrictive controls. On the contrary, if uniform controls are applied to the countries emitting largest effluents, we can avoid excessive restrictive controls.

Pls explain what is wrong in my thinking ?