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. The world's oceans are salty because the water has dissolved salt from rocks. Streams and rivers flowing over
rocks for eons have carried the salt to the sea. Also, water on the ocean floor flows into thermal vents, where it becomes heated and dissolves salt from the oceanic crust. Finally, water in the vicinity of submarine volcanoes dissolves salt from the molten lava. April Holladay, "Seas Are Salty But Don't Get Any Saltier"
A) Nonargument.
B) Argument; conclusion: The world's oceans are salty.
C) Argument; conclusion: The water has dissolved salt from rocks.
D) Argument; conclusion: Streams and rivers ... salt to the sea.
E) Argument; conclusion: Water in the vicinity ... molten lava.
A
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