PT102.S3.Q17

PrepTest 102 - Section 3 - Question 17

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People cannot devote themselves to the study of natural processes unless they have leisure, and people have leisure when resources are plentiful, not when resources are scarce. ████████ ████ ███████████████ █████ ████ ████████████ ███ ███████████ ██ ██████ ████████ █████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █████████ ████ ████████████ ██████ ████ █████ ████ ██████████ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ██████████ ███ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ███████ ███████████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ██ ███████ ██████████

Summary

Despite what some anthropologists claim, agriculture must not have begun under conditions of drought and hunger. Why? Because agricultural discoveries are the result of the study of natural processes. People cannot study natural processes without leisure, and people have leisure only when resources are plentiful.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Agriculture began under societies that had plentiful resources.

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17.

The argument is structured to ████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████

a

whenever a society ███ █████████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████ █████████

b

plants cannot be ██████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ███████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███ ██████

c

agriculture first began ██ █████████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ █████████ █████████

d

early agricultural societies ████ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ███████████████ █████████

e

early societies could ████ ██████████ ██ ████████ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ███ ████

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