PT127.S2.Q12

PrepTest 127 - Section 2 - Question 12

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Throughout a certain nation, electricity has actually become increasingly available to people in urban areas while energy production has been subsidized to help residents of rural areas gain access to electricity. ████████ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████████ █████ ███████████ █████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ████████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ ████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that the energy subsidy failed to achieve its intended purpose of helping residents of rural areas gain access to electricity. As support, the author says that even with the subsidy, many of the most isolated rural populations don’t have access to electricity.

Identify and Describe Flaw

All we know is that “many” of the most isolated rural populations still don’t have access to electricity. It could be the case that the subsidy brought electricity to many (or even most!) of the nation’s rural residents. With just the information given, it is a flawed argument to say that the energy subsidy failed to achieve its intended purpose.

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12.

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a

takes for granted ████ ███ █████████ ████████ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ███ ███████

b

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c

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d

overlooks the possibility ████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ██ █████ █████ █████ ████ ██████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ███████████ ███████ ███ ███████

e

fails to take ████ ███████ ████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ ███ █████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ █████ █████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ███

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