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. If wind turbines are extensively deployed, solar power systems are installed, bioenergy technologies are

exploited, electric cars are perfected and mass produced, and a high-speed rail network is constructed, then the nation will be weaned off its addiction to oil, climate change will be slowed, and billions of dollars in oil money will be redirected from nations that hate us to improving our own standard of living.

A) Argument, conclusion: Billions of dollars in oil money ... standard of living.

B) Argument, conclusion: The nation will be weaned off its addiction to oil.

C) Argument, conclusion: Wind turbines are extensively deployed.

D) Nonargument.

E) Argument, conclusion: Electric cars are perfected and mass produced.


D

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