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 abundant over most of the earth's surface, and within the temperature range usually encountered there,
it is liquid. Water also is a powerful solvent. Consequently, water is an excellent medium for the chemical processes of living systems. It is hard to imagine life having any other basis than water. Robert E. Ricklefs, The Economy of Nature, 5th ed.
A) Argument; conclusion: It is hard to imagine life having any other basis than water.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: Water is abundant ... it is liquid.
D) Argument; conclusion: Water is an excellent medium ... living systems.
E) Argument; conclusion: Water also is a powerful solvent.
D
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