Since 1950, almost every top publishing house in the United States has been issuing books that its editors know to be occult garbage. Why? The answer is obvious. Like worthless diet books, they make lots of money. (Martin Gardner, The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher)This passage is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.
A. nonargument; explanation
B. nonargument; report
C. argument; conclusion: Like worthless diet books, they make lots of money
D. argument; conclusion: Since 1950, almost every top publishing house in the United States has been issuing books that its editors know to be occult garbage
Answer: A
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