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by Dean Jones » Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:57 am
Dear Friends,

I was having problems in answering the following question.

Which of the following best completes the passage below?
At a recent conference on environmental threats to 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


Please help.

OA after some discussions.


Regards
Deano.
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by GmatVerbal » Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:02 am
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
At a recent conference on environmental threats to 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 __________.

The logic may be something like

uniform controls for all effluents irrespective of whether they damage or not, but excessive restrictions to those that damage

Between the serious contenders B &D , I would for D , it appears to me the set that belongs to B are the are under uniform control.

IMO (D).
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by chieftang » Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:40 am
[spoiler]
B. any substance to be made subject to controls can actually cause environmental damage [/spoiler]
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by mankey » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:23 am
IMO: B.

What is the OA?

Thanks.
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by Dean Jones » Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:22 am
OA is option B
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by tuanquang269 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:36 am
+ 1 B
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by Prashant Ranjan » Mon Sep 03, 2012 4:10 am
The question is little confusing here. It essentially asks us to bring forward an evidence which says that the control is excessive.
How can we do so.The best contenders here are (B) and (D). Since we have in a way paraphrased the question stem (basically opposite of what the original question stem says), so we need to negate the answer choices as well
(B) says that a substance that acually doesn't cause damage is subjected to control -> this shows that control is overly restrictive in nature.
(D) (Opposite of all = Some) Some of the pollutants reach the North Sea. This is not overly restrictive - in fact perfectly complying with the control.

Thanks
Prashant
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