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. Developing an AIDS vaccine is not impossible, as some skeptics claim. Research suggests that the human immune

system is better at fighting HIV than was originally thought. Most of those infected suppress the virus for years without developing AIDS. A small number never contract the virus despite repeated exposures. If we can figure out the mechanism that accounts for this, we'll have clues about how to engineer a vaccine. Seth Berkley, "Don't Quit on an AIDS Vaccine"

A) Argument; conclusion: If we can figure out the mechanism ... engineer a vaccine.

B) Nonargument.

C) Argument; conclusion: Most of those infected ... without developing AIDS.

D) Argument; conclusion: Research suggests ... than was originally thought.

E) Argument; conclusion: Developing an AIDS vaccine ... skeptics claim.


E

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