Read Each Passage

question 9

Multiple Choice

Read each passage.Then choose the appropriate letter or letters to indicate the presence or absence of an error or errors in reasoning. Around the world, 125 million children aged six to eleven years old do not attend school.Two-thirds of those children are girls.Getting all these children into school is one of the best things the United States can do to help other nations become politically and economically stable.For one thing, schooling raises earning power by 10 to 20 percent.Therefore, education helps developing nations improve their economies.Secondly, girls who have been educated tend to have smaller and healthier families.Finally, children need to be in school.It is shameful for our country, which insists on mandatory education for all of its own children, to fail to commit resources to helping impoverished nations create schools for their young people.America should help children everywhere get educated.

• A) circular reasoning
• B) hasty generalization
• C) slippery slope
• D) unidentified or dated research
• E) unidentified experts
• F) irrelevant reason
• G) no error

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Definitions:

Somatoform Disorder

A mental disorder that causes patients to experience physical symptoms for which no underlying physical cause can be identified.

Schizophrenic Disorder

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Dissociative Disorder

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Anxiety Disorder

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