Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Many stars are born in clusters of hundreds or thousands crowded

Explanation for Question1

This question is definitely a hard question, and part of the reason why is that, to identify the correct answer, we have to use information from both the third paragraph and the fifthparagraph.

1. It can be inferred from the passage that if the hypothesis about the sun's origins is correct, then most of the sun's siblingsprobably

A. have more heavy elements than is normal for stars born so far from the galacticcenter

Scanning the passage for "heavy elements," we find it in the thirdparagraph:

This hypothesis could explain the puzzling levels of heavyelements in the sun. Generally, the farther a star's birthplace is from the galactic center, the poorer the star is in heavy elements. However, a nearby supernova that seeded the meteorites with iron 60 could also have enriched the sun with theseelements.

We see that the passage indicates that the Sun is not poor "in heavy elements." Rather, it has "puzzling levels of heavy elements,"
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