PT128.S4.P1.Q4

PrepTest 128 - Section 4 - Passage 1 - Question 4

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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.
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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.
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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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4.

Approval of which one of ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████

a

competition between New █████████ ████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████████

We don’t have evidence the author approves of competition. Competition is simply something that occurred that reduced the price of wool and reduced wool production.

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b

changes in land ███ ██ ███ █████████ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ███████ ███████

We don’t have evidence the author approves of changes in land use. The author notes that changes have occurred as a result of the decline in wool price, but there’s no indication the author endorses the changes in land use.

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c

the farming practices ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ████

If anything, the author might disapprove of these practices, because they don’t lead to the most productivity. The author wants better farm management and more wool production. She probably wouldn’t want farmers to be willing to have less production in order to maintain their lifestyle.

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If anything, the author might disapprove of these efforts, because those efforts would be better spent on trying to reduce the cost of producing raw wool or on improving the quality of wool.

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e

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There’s evidence the author implicitly approves of these practices, because the author cites the most profitable wool farms as a positive example of what can be achieved with better farm management. The author wants family farmers and other less productive farms to adopt better farm management so that they can achieve productivity more like that of the most profitable farms.

62%

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