Q15 - Technologically, it is already

[ohthatpatrick]

What does the Question Stem tell us?
ID the Conclusion

Break down the Stimulus:
Conclusion: The infrastructure for hydrogen fuel is likely to appear and grow quickly.
Evidence: A century ago we didn't have infrastructure for gas fuel, but that infrastructure developed quickly. The first sentence is background, and the second sentence is a counterpoint.

Any prephrase?
We need something like "the national system of hydrogen fuel stations infrastructure is likely to appear and grow rapidly".

Answer choice analysis:
A) That's background

B) That's the counterpont

C) This is a broad claim, not one actually made by the author.

D) Bingo!

E) This is an assumption, not a claim actually made by the author.

The correct answer is D.

Takeaway/Pattern: ID the Conclusion is arguably the simplest task in LR. To make finding the conclusion more difficult, they almost always hide it in one of two ways: 1. Conclusion is the first sentence or 2. Conclusion appears in the middle, after a but/yet/however, and THEN the author supports it. In both of the typical templates, the conclusion appears BEFORE the evidence.

#officialexplanation

[chungyesol]

I picked (c) for an answer. Is (d) an answer because of the sentence "However, this infrastructure is..."? Is that the main conclusion here?

[maryadkins]

I picked (c) for an answer. Is (d) an answer because of the sentence "However, this infrastructure is..."? Is that the main conclusion here?

Yes! Notice that this question (Identify the Conclusion) has the classic structure of embedding the conclusion right there in the middle. (C) is too broad. Remember on these kinds of questions, you want to think VERY LITERALLY. Pick up the conclusion straight from the stimulus and slap it down into an answer choice.

Hope this helps!

[LaurenP895]

I chose B because I thought "But" was the conclusion indicator, but i do see that "however,..." makes sense but can someone explain why/how to differentiate these indicator words if they both show up like this one?