PrepTest 123, Section 1, Question 15
The following passage was written in the mid-1990s.(458 more words not shown)
Based on the information in(21 more words not shown)
- ADespite previous difficulties,(9 more words not shown)
- BThough these systems(15 more words not shown)
- CThese systems would(12 more words not shown)
- DThese systems are(11 more words not shown)
- EUntil the long-term(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What do we actually know about solar? It's introduced as a cleaner source that could help meet rising demand. Then we see a solar project in Brazil whose expansion stalls. Keep those two things separate: a promising technology can be implemented badly. Check whether each answer reflects the writer's view of solar itself or overreacts to the problems with that project.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Solar is included among the “possible solutions,” and Brazil's difficulties come from an avoidable decision to forgo local production capacity. The favorable assessment of the technology and the explanation of that failure support profitable implementation elsewhere. This claims that success is possible, not that every solar project will succeed.
- B
The writer identifies a problem with this project's implementation, not a reason solar must be dismissed as impractical. That dismissal conflicts with the opening's favorable assessment.
- C
Brazil's project is rural, but we aren't given an urban project for comparison or a claim that population density determines solar's effectiveness.
- D
The solar and wind examples don't compare the technologies' installation, operating, or maintenance costs. Their different outcomes are attributed to local participation.
- E
The writer already presents solar as a possible solution. Nothing requires withholding that judgment until a further demonstration of long-term functioning.
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