SECTION 5 TIME—25 MINUTES 16 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS

2.

Mud from a lake on an uninhabited wooded island in

state and national offices do not because they

northern Lake Superior contains toxic chemicals,

cannot get adequate funding for their campaigns.

including toxaphene, a banned pesticide for cotton

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that previously was manufactured and used, not in

nearby regions of Canada or the northern United

States, but in the southern United States. No

dumping has occurred on the island. The island lake

is sufficiently elevated that water from Lake Superior

does not reach it.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support

which of the following hypothesis?

(A) The waters of the island lake are more severely

polluted than those of Lake Superior.

(B) The toxaphene was carried to the island in the

atmosphere by winds.