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.