Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
Because Texas usually loses 5 percent of its cotton crop to insects, this year farmers there started spraying the pesticide malathion in order to eradicate the principal culprit, the boll weevil. Spraying killed 98 percent of boll weevils, but because malathion reduced populations of predators of the beet armyworm, that insect did more damage to the crop than the boll weevil ever has. Even so, the spraying program should not yet be halted, since_________.
The passage presents some background information about Texas's cotton crop and insects.
It then states aconclusion:
the spraying program should not yet behalted
After the conclusion is "since __________."
In this type of context, "since" is an evidence marker. So, the answer choice that fills the blank and follows "since" must be evidence that supports the conclusion that precedes since, "the spraying program should not yet be
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Because Texas usually loses 5 percent of its cotton crop to insects, this year farmers there started spraying the pesticide malathion in order to eradicate the principal culprit, the boll weevil. Spraying killed 98 percent of boll weevils, but because malathion reduced populations of predators of the beet armyworm, that insect did more damage to the crop than the boll weevil ever has. Even so, the spraying program should not yet be halted, since_________.
The passage presents some background information about Texas's cotton crop and insects.
It then states aconclusion:
the spraying program should not yet behalted
After the conclusion is "since __________."
In this type of context, "since" is an evidence marker. So, the answer choice that fills the blank and follows "since" must be evidence that supports the conclusion that precedes since, "the spraying program should not yet be
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