PT128.S4.P1.Q3

PrepTest 128 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 3

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P1

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Intro to Topic · New Zealand wool industry
Golden age in the 1950s.
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Problem · Decline in wool production and profitability
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Details of Problem · Competition from synthetics
Downward pressure on prices of "strong wool."
P2

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Solution · Improve productivity to improve profitability
Productivity can be improved by adopting the best management and breeding practices.
P3

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Solution · Better farm management
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Status Quo · Producers are divided
Professional farms achieve high profitability. Family farms do not. Hooking this back to the previous paragraph, presumably the idea is that the family farms can learn management practices from the professionals.
P4

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Solution · Establish commercial genetic research company
Not to increase wool processing efficiency. Instead, to focus on producing better quality wool more cheaply.
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3.

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a

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Although we’re told strong wool is used mostly for carpets, we’re not told anything about New Zealand’s carpet industry. Perhaps New Zealand exports its strong wool to other countries for the purpose of making carpets.

13%
b

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A board that oversees the wool industry isn’t mentioned.

2%
c

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Although we know that the industry’s research is focused on improving wool-processing efficiency rather than on reducing the cost of producing raw wool or improving the quality of raw wool, we don’t know that this focus represents a “recent shift.” The author recommends a shift away from more-efficient wool-processing toward genetic research, but this doesn’t imply that there was a recent shift to the current focus on wool-processing.

12%
d

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The author mentions cotton growers to show the productivity gains that are possible from improved farm management. But wool hasn’t followed that growth pattern. The author thinks wool can follow that pattern with better farm management.

3%
e

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Stated in the middle of P1.

70%

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