For the condor to survive in the

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: will eventually3% picked this

   The condor as a species will eventually become extinct in

   The condor sounds threatened, that's for sure, but the last sentence seems to provide one possible way that we could still save the condor and help it repopulate, so we can't support the total pessimism of "the condor will eventually become extinct in the wild". I mean, eventually, all animals will be extinct, since the Sun will burn out billions of years from now, but that's using outside knowledge, not information from this passage.

   3%
2. B

   Too Strong: the best11% picked this

   The best way to save the condor from extinction is to breed

   The last sentence says "one possible" way [to save the condor] is to breed it in captivity. But maybe there are other possible ways, and at least one of those is superior. We don't know enough about the various options to say that breeding in captivity is "the best" way.

   11%
3. C

   Too Strong: almost impossible10% picked this

   It is almost impossible to eliminate all the environmental threats to the

   It sounds like breeding the birds in captivity would be "one possible way to eliminate the effects of these factors [the environmental dangers confronting condor eggs]". So unless we feel like breeding in captivity is "almost impossible", there's no reason to go this far into pessimism.

   10%
4. D

   Correct68% picked this

   If more condor eggs do not hatch, the condor as a species will not survive

   Why this is right

   This sort of just gives us the contrapositive of the first sentence. The first sentence said this: Condor surviving ? breeding population in the wild (requires) big increase The contrapositive is, breeding population ? condors won't survive doesn't have big increase in the wild If "more condor eggs do not hatch", then it sounds like "there won't be a big increase in breeding population", which means that "the condor won't survive in the wild".

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   68%
5. E

   Too Strong: the most feasible10% picked this

   The most feasible way to save the condor from extinction is to

   We don't learn about multiple ways to save the condors. We only hear about "one possible way", so there's no way to compare different ways to each other in order to rank which one is most feasible.

   10%