Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. While there is no technology to reduce CO2 from a car's exhaust, we can make cars pollute less by making them
more fuel efficient. By using today's best technology, car makers could dramatically increase the fuel economy of their cars and trucks. In fact, off-the-shelf technology can change the nation's best selling SUV, the Ford Explorer, from a 19 mpg gas guzzler to an efficient 34 mpg vehicle. If we are to make any progress in slowing global warming, we must make our cars go farther on a gallon of gas. Sierra Club, "Global Warming Solutions"
A) Argument; conclusion: While there is no technology ... more fuel efficient.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: In fact, off-the-shelf technology ... 34 mpg vehicle.
D) Argument; conclusion: By using today's best technology ... cars and trucks.
E) Argument; conclusion: If we are to make any progress ... a gallon of gas.
B
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