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. For awhile, during the 1990s, it looked as though the loggerhead sea turtle might be making a comeback. But a
new federal report suggests that loggerheads have begun to decline again. Their life-pattern makes them doubly vulnerable to humans. They lay their eggs on beaches, habitat vulnerable to development and disturbance, and they spend their long lives at sea, where they are often fouled in fishing nets. Newspaper editorial
A) Argument; conclusion: But a new federal report ... begun to decline again.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: Their life-pattern ... doubly vulnerable to humans.
D) Argument; conclusion: For awhile, during the 1990s ... making a comeback.
E) Argument; conclusion: They lay their eggs ... fouled in fishing nets.
C
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