LSAT 106 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q11

RC Question 11 Explanation

DISCUSSION: There’s little you can do beforehand on this type of question. Just make sure to support your answer using a passage – the wrong answers are designed to trick you.

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1. Lines 35-37 say that some major eruptions caused temperatures to drop by half a degree. We’re never told if other major eruptions can cause a drop of more than a degree.
2. El Nino affects global temperature, but we’re never told what causes El Nino.
3. CORRECT. The final paragraph supports this. Major eruptions indirectly can cause very cool summers, because they start a feedback loop.
    
   But it’s the feedback loop that causes cool summers, not the initial eruption.
4. Lines 30-37 contradict this. Minor eruptions have no effect, while major eruptions have some effect.
5. Lines 18-22 clearly say that El Nino has an effect. It’s the whole point of the passage. The El Nino effect has made us think the volcano effect was larger.