[Sentence Correction]

Which of following most logically completes the argument?

 

The last members of a now-extinct species of a European wild deer called the giant dear lived in Ireland about 16,000 years ago.  Prehistoric cave paintings in France depict this animal as having a large hump on its back.  Fossils of this animal, however, do not show any hump.  Nevertheless, there is no reason to conclude that the cave paintings are therefore inaccurate in this regard, since ______.

[Critical Reasoning]

Any of the following statements, if true about last year, helps to explain the rise in profits EXCEPT:

[Critical Reasoning]

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

[Critical Reasoning]

Contrary to earlier predictions, demand for sugarcane has not increased in recent years. Yet, even though prices and production amounts have also been stable during the last three years, sugarcane growers last year increased their profits by more than 10 percent over the previous year's level.

Any of the following statements, if true about last year, helps to explain the rise in profits EXCEPT:

[Critical Reasoning]

Contrary to earlier predictions, demand for sugarcane has not increased in recent years. Yet, even though prices and production amounts have also been stable during the last three years, sugarcane growers last year increased their profits by more than 10 percent over the previous year’s level.

Any of the following statements, if true about last year, helps to explain the rise in profits EXCEPT:

[Critical Reasoning]

First discovered several years ago in North American lakes and rivers, the northern snakehead is a nonnative fish with no local predators. To keep the northern snakehead’s population from growing, for the past three years wildlife officials have been paying recreational fishers for each northern snakehead they catch. In this way, the officials hope to stop the northern snakeheads from eliminating rare native fish species.

To evaluate the likelihood that the wildlife officials’ plan will succeed, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?

[Sentence Correction]

A study of children of divorced parents found that ten years after the parents’ divorce, children who had been under six years of age at the time of the settlement were not preoccupied, nor even very curious, about the reasons that led to their parents’ divorces.

[Critical Reasoning]

Which of the following, if true in Borania, most strongly supports the manufacturers' prediction?

[Reading Comprehension]

It can be inferred from the passage that the isotope record taken from ocean sediments would be less useful to researchers if which of the following were true?

[Reading Comprehension]

It can be inferred from the passage that the isotope record taken from ocean sediments would be less useful to researchers if which of the following were true?