I want to make sure that I correctly understand why option (D) is wrong:

(D) is wrong because it states a very broad and unsubstantiated generalization that there are situation in which NO principle of journalistic ethics can be of any help.

Am I right?

Thank you.

mshermn, thanks a lot for your confirmation!

Can someone please confirm that the difference between (A) and (C) is that (A), although true, does not capture the whole idea of the passage?

Thank you.

Noah, thanks for your reply. You are right. The passage says: "[The colonists] shared a common political vocabulary with the English in England... [T]hese colonials failed to observe that their experience in America had given the words a significance quite different from that accepted by the En...

I still don't understand why (A) is wrong.

Confuses matters of objective fact = "lines and syllable count"
with
matters of subjective feelings = "call a poem with a haiku feel"

What's wrong with the reasoning above?

Does this warrant the conclusion of English poets having little respect for foreign traditions. Not only is foreign traditions way too broad of an attack from the evidence, but we also do not have sufficient evidence to conclude little respect for the haikus either. This part is clear, and I am not...

I'm still not convinced why (C) is wrong. As you've said above, they now accept a flood theory even though they don't know any process that can melt so much ice so quickly. OK. But what if there were more than one glacier in the area that contributed to the creation of channels (as is indicated by o...

As far as I know, children used to be a regular part of workforce around the world (including US) and, in fact, still are in some countries. So how come that high birth rates did not have an impact on the number of people in labor force? I also chose (A) based on the same reasoning as that of lichen...

Tim, thanks for your reply. I understand your point. But before they thought that there was just one source of water (i.e., one glacier). Now they've discovered that there were more than one source (i.e., multiple glaciers). They also didn't know how so much water could be melted so quickly. Or, in ...

Here's my reasoning with (A) and (D) We can conclude from the stimulus that in order to sustain the level of wages, the number of people in the workforce should remain at most the same. We know that famine reduced the workforce by half. In order to sustain previous levels of wages new people should ...