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. We are immersed in life. We breathe it in, we walk on it, we touch it. Each footstep on a fertile lawn or forest
mat will send tremors to trillions of bacteria, millions of algae, fungi, and protozoa, and hundreds of insects and worms. The skin on our bodies, when viewed microscopically, is a teeming matrix of tiny caverns filled with bacteria, viruses, and mites. So dense are the unseen life forms on our bodies that they form an almost complete shell about each of us. Gary S. Moore, Living with the Earth, 3rd ed.
A) Argument; conclusion: Each footstep on a fertile lawn ... of insects and worms.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: We breathe it in, we walk on it, we touch it.
D) Argument; conclusion: We are immersed in life.
E) Argument; conclusion: So dense are the unseen life forms ... about each of us.
D
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