PrepTest 123, Section 1, Question 20
The following passage was written in the mid-1990s.(458 more words not shown)
Which one of the following,(17 more words not shown)
- AThe profitability of(13 more words not shown)
- BThe Danish energy(17 more words not shown)
- CIndian firms are(9 more words not shown)
- DEnvironmental pollutants are(11 more words not shown)
- ENew technology is(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The last sentence predicts that India's project has a good chance of staying competitive and profitable because it developed local involvement.
What we’re looking for
What could interfere with that? Maybe its present success still depends on something that won't last. We need a reason to doubt the long-term forecast, not simply another drawback of energy production.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
If temporary subsidies are the main reason the project is profitable, its current success may disappear when they end. Local capacity might help without being enough to sustain profitability on its own. We don't have to prove the project will collapse; this dependence gives us a direct reason to doubt the forecast.
- B
Knowing the Danish agency invested more than the U.S. agency doesn't tell us whether India's project can keep paying its costs. A difference in initial funding isn't itself evidence against long-term profitability.
- C
Being allowed to charge higher fees could help revenue. This supplies no reason to expect that the project will become unprofitable.
- D
This challenges the environmental benefits of wind equipment, but the claim we're testing is about staying competitive and profitable. Pollution during manufacture doesn't by itself undermine that claim.
- E
Cleaner fossil-fuel plants might be environmentally welcome, but we're told nothing about their prices or their effect on demand for this project's electricity. Cleaner doesn't automatically mean the wind project will become uncompetitive.
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