Self-study
Government official: Conclusion A satisfactory way of eliminating chronic food shortages in our country is not easily achievable. ██████ ███ ████ █████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ████ █████████ █████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ ████████████ █████████████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ████ ███ █████████ ███████████ ██ ████████ █████████████ █████ ████ █████████ ███ █████████ ███ ██████ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ████████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ████ ███ ███████ ████ █████████ █████ █████ ███ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ███ █████ ██ ████ ██ ███ █████████
Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The government official concludes that there is no easily achievable way to eliminate chronic food shortages in his country. To support this conclusion, he raises, then rejects, two possible solutions. First, he says that direct food shipments from other countries will weaken the country’s long-term agricultural self sufficiency because these food shipments would force local producers out of business. And secondly, foreign investments in long-term development projects would result in inflation, making food unaffordable and perpetuating the food shortages.
Identify Argument Part
The claim in the question stem is a premise that rejects one of the potential solutions to the food shortages; in demonstrating that foreign investment will not easily solve the food shortage, this claim works to support the government official’s conclusion.
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The claim that foreign capital ████████ ████ ███ ███████ █████ █████ █████████ █████ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██████████ █████████
a
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The official does not claim that the country must become agriculturally self sufficient––this language is too strong; instead, he says that direct aid would undermine the possibility to of self-sufficiency. Also, the referenced text does not support the idea in this answer.
b
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The claim in the question stem is a premise that supports the conclusion, so this answer is correct because it correctly identifies the conclusion.
c
It is supported ██ ███ █████ ████ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ ██████████████ ████████████████
The claim in the question stem is a premise; it does not get support from any other part of the text.
d
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The information about the results of food donation is separate from the information about the results of foreign investment; these are two separate premises that do not support each other. Instead, they both work to support the conclusion.
e
It is supported ██ ███ █████ ████ ████ █████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ████ █████ ██████████
Similar to answer C, this answer is wrong because the claim in the question text is a premise, so it does not receive support from any other part of the argument.