PT133.S2.Q12

PrepTest 133 - Section 2 - Question 12

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Commentator: Recently, articles criticizing the environmental movement have been appearing regularly in newspapers. █████████ ██ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ████ ██ ██ █████████████████ ████ █████ ███ █████ ██ ██ █ ██████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███████ ███ ████████ ████ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ██████████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ █████████████████ ██████ ██████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ██████████ ███ ███████ ████████████████ ██ ██ ██ █████ ███████████ █████████ ███ █████████████████████ ███ ██████ █████ ██ ██ ███████████ ███████ ████ ████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██ ██████████

Summary

Winslow believes that articles criticizing the environmental movement have been appearing in newspapers due to the desire of newspaper editors for articles that seem to challenge prevailing political positions. The commentator concedes that editors like to run antienvironmental pieces primarily because they like to challenge prevailing positions. But the commentator asserts that, despite what news editors might think, environmentalism isn’t actually the prevailing position.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Newspaper editors are selecting some stories on the basis of an inaccurate understanding of what is a prevailing position.

At least some people have an inaccurate understanding about the prevalence of serious environmentalism.

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12.

The commentator's statements, if true, ████ ████████ ███████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

a

Winslow is correct █████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████ ███████ ███ █████████████ █████████

b

Critics of environmentalism ████ ███ ████████████ ████████ ██████████ ██ ██████████

c

Winslow's explanation is ███ █████████ ████ ███ █████████ ████ █████ █████████ ██ ████████████████ ███ ██████████

d

The position attacked ██ ███████ ██ ████████████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████████ █████████ █████████

e

Serious environmentalism will ██████████ ██████ █ ██████████ █████████ █████████

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