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by komal » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:48 am
Environmentalist: The commissioner of the Fish and Game Authority would have the public believe that increases in the number of marine fish caught demonstrate that this resource is no longer endangered. This is a specious argument, as unsound as it would be to assert that the ever-increasing rate at which rain forests are being cut down demonstrates a lack of danger to that resource. The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using technologies that deplete resources.

The environmentalist's statements, if true, best support which of the following as a conclusion?

(A) The use of technology is the reason for the increasing encroachment of people on nature.

(8) It is possible to determine how many fish are in the sea in some way other than by catching fish.

(C) The proportion of marine fish that are caught is as high as the proportion of rain forest trees that are cut down each year.

(D) Modern technologies waste resources by catching inedible fish.

(E) Marine fish continue to be an endangered resource

OA E source og 12
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by thephoenix » Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:32 am
komal wrote:Environmentalist: The commissioner of the Fish and Game Authority would have the public believe that increases in the number of marine fish caught demonstrate that this resource is no longer endangered. This is a specious argument, as unsound as it would be to assert that the ever-increasing rate at which rain forests are being cut down demonstrates a lack of danger to that resource. The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using technologies that deplete resources.

The environmentalist's statements, if true, best support which of the following as a conclusion?

(A) The use of technology is the reason for the increasing encroachment of people on nature.
incorrectnowhere in the stimulus it is mention that encroachment of people on nature has increase bcoz of use of technology
stimulus says The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using technologies that deplete resources.
its a shift of scope type answer choice scope has shift from fish to nature


(8) It is possible to determine how many fish are in the sea in some way other than by catching fish.
determining # of fishes is mot at all discussed in the stimulus

(C) The proportion of marine fish that are caught is as high as the proportion of rain forest trees that are cut down each year.
out of scope
(D) Modern technologies waste resources by catching inedible fish.
scope shift:inedible fish is not discused

(E) Marine fish continue to be an endangered resource
correct

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by joseph32 » Sun May 15, 2016 11:45 pm
I believe the correct answer should be E