PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 3
By the year 2030, the Earth's population is(451 more words not shown)
The author of the passage(23 more words not shown)
- AIt is a(20 more words not shown)
- BIt is not(19 more words not shown)
- CIt is a(13 more words not shown)
- DIt is a(20 more words not shown)
- EIt is the(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Designed offal means arranging for manufacturing scraps to go directly back into the same process or a related one. Picture metal shavings being reused instead of discarded. That reduces waste, but it still takes energy and produces some harmful by-products. So we want approval with that limitation intact.
Working the answers
- A
Some costs remain, but the writer presents this as an improvement. Calling the step harmful misses the comparison with today's greater waste and pollution.
- B
We aren't told it distracts anyone from the remaining problems.
- C
Reusing manufacturing waste contributes to an industrial ecosystem. Falling short of the ideal doesn't mean it makes no contribution.
- DCorrect
It moves in the proposed direction without solving everything. The text says waste and harmful by-products remain, though in substantially smaller amounts than under current practices (paragraph 3). That is qualified support, just as we predicted.
- E
We aren't given a comparison establishing this as the most practical solution to the world's environmental problems. A useful partial improvement isn't that sweeping a claim.
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