PT133.S1.Q8

PrepTest 133 - Section 1 - Question 8

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Letter to the editor: Conclusion Your article was unjustified in criticizing environmentalists for claiming that more wolves on Vancouver Island are killed by hunters than are born each year. ███ ██████ ████ ████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ █████████ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ████████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ███ ███ ████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ████ ███████████ █████████████████ ████ ████ ███████████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████████ ███ ██ ██████

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

The letter to the editor supports environmentalists after an article criticized their claims, calling that article’s criticism unjustified. The author claims the environmentalists were correct in claiming that that more wolves on Vancouver Island are killed by hunters than are born annually, even though the population has stayed constant. The reason the criticism is unjustified is because it does not recognize that environmentalists have been introducing new wolves over the past 20 years. (This would make population constancy an inaccurate representation of birth rates.)

Identify Conclusion

The conclusion is the author’s evaluation of the article’s claims: “Your article was unjustified in criticizing environmentalists for claiming that more wolves on Vancouver Island are killed by hunters than are born each year.”

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8.

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a

Environmentalists have been ████████████ ███████████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ █████████ ██████ ███ ██ ██████

b

As many wolves ██ █████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ████ █████

c

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d

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e

The stability in ███ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████ ███ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████████████ ██████

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