PrepTest 157, Section 1, Question 24
Some environmentalists claim that the higher the international(435 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(23 more words not shown)
- Areintroducing traditional farming(1 more words not shown)
- Bopening up land(3 more words not shown)
- Ccurtailing road(1 more words not shown)
- Ddecreasing spending on(1 more words not shown)
- Eraising prices on(1 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Avert a negative impact means avoid a harm. So we're looking for one of the author's examples of a spending reduction that stops something environmentally damaging. The second paragraph names canceled dams or roads and eliminated fertilizer or pesticide subsidies.
Working the answers
- A
Traditional farming methods aren't proposed. Don't supply an environmentally appealing policy that the author never mentions.
- B
Clearing land for cash crops is one of the environmentalists' examples of damage. It doesn't answer a question asking how a response to debt could avert damage.
- CCorrect
The author explicitly says countries might cancel proposed dam or road construction (paragraph 2). Curtailing road construction matches that example: debt pressure could cause a country to stop a project that would otherwise harm the environment.
- D
Sanitation appears among the beneficial services that could lose funding. Cutting it is offered as a possible cost of debt repayment, not an avoided environmental harm.
- E
Raising export prices isn't identified as an environmental benefit of debt pressure. The export discussion concerns shifting production toward goods sold abroad, not changing their prices.
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