RC Question 22 Explanation
DISCUSSION: The author describes Temple’s theory, then shows that it is wrong.
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- This is just a fact that helps prove Temple wrong. It’s far from the main point of the passage, which was to describe and discredit Temple’s theory.
- CORRECT. This covers everything. First the author describes Temple’s theory, with skepticism. Then in the final paragraph the author’s shows the theory is probably wrong. In fact, Calvaria major trees probably aren’t even going extinct.
- This contradicts the fourth paragraph, which shows that Temple was probably mistaken.
- Same as C.
- The fourth paragraph indicates that Calvaria major trees may in fact not be scarce.
The passage starts off by saying bluntly and factually that the calvaria trees are “rare.” This is presented as fact, and NOT as a finding by Temple. So your explanation for E seems not to hold, unless we dismiss something the author presented as fact.. The lines 48-51 say there may be hundreds. That tells us nothing about whether it is rare or not. There are hundreds of people that get 180 scores, but it is still *rare*.
That said, B and E were my last two answers (note that if B is true, and the trees are scarce today, then so is E), but I don’t really understand the dismissal of E.