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. Water is a highly reactive substance, quite different both physically and chemically from most other liquids
Indeed, life as we know it would be impossible if water did not have the properties it does. The first living systems presumably arose in the aqueous environment of shallow seas. It is therefore not surprising that the living organisms of the present are intimately adapted at the molecular level to the special properties of water. David Randall et al., Animal Physiology
A) Argument; conclusion: Water is a highly reactive ... most other liquids.
B) Argument; conclusion: Indeed, life as we know it ... the properties it does.
C) Argument; conclusion: It is not surprising ... properties of water.
D) Nonargument.
E) Argument; conclusion: The first living systems ... shallow seas.
C
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