Reading Comprehension (RC) | Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert

 

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[textarea] 1. The primary purpose of the passage isto

Explanation

After the author dismisses the conclusions of specialists in international communications as lacking a factual basis, she recommends ways that the specialists might approach their research and thereby come up with some defensible theories. The argumentative tone of the passage makes(B) and(C) good candidates for the correct answer.

If we look more closely, however,(B) focuses attention only on the first paragraph, and distorts the author’s point to boot: it’s the specialists’ non-factual approach that the author disdains—not only is there is no evidence to support the specialists’ theories, but the available evidence suggests the specialists arewrong.

(C) , however, focuses on the author’s recommendations for communications researchers. Since the first paragraph show that a new approach is needed, and the final paragraph outline the new
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