PrepTest 155, Section 3, Question 13
With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and(456 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly suggests(19 more words not shown)
- AWater resources were(16 more words not shown)
- BPrecipitation levels throughout(11 more words not shown)
- CExisting treaties governing(8 more words not shown)
- DConflicts over the(12 more words not shown)
- EMuch of the(15 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What was already true when the commission began? Countries recognized a need for cooperation, and existing decisions and practices supplied principles the commission could collect. We don't have a detailed history of past shortages or conflicts. Check each answer for something that actually precedes the drafting project in this account.
Working the answers
- A
The opening describes pressure on supplies, but doesn't establish whether most United Nations members then had enough water. Concern about future shortages doesn't settle that present comparison either way.
- B
Predicted decreases in precipitation in many regions aren't a report of steady worldwide declines over previous years. Both the timing and geographical scope exceed the evidence.
- C
We aren't told how often existing treaties included environmental protection. The draft articles' shortcomings don't establish this separate historical claim about earlier treaties.
- D
Greater potential for conflict isn't the same as actual conflicts already escalating sharply in frequency and intensity. The opening supplies the former, not the latter.
- ECorrect
The second paragraph says the articles attempt to codify principles manifested in “past legal decisions” and accepted practice. Those decisions necessarily preceded the effort to collect the principles. The commission was formulating a shared framework from existing legal material, rather than creating all of its content from scratch.
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