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• From Part I of the exercises in 1.2 of your textbook in the Overview, do only: 1 through 10, 14, 15, 18, 24, 27, 30, 33, and 35
  • Special Directions:  If the passage is an argument, standardize it like you did in the exercises from 1.1. If the passage is not an argument, type “N/A” and what type of passage it is (warning, piece of advice, report, etc.).
  • Also, we do not cover “expository passages” or “loosely associated statements” in this section, so neither of those should show up in your answers!

  I. Determine which of the following passages are arguments. For those that are, iden-

tify the conclusion. For those that are not, determine the kind of nonargument.

?1. The turkey vulture is called by that name because its red featherless head re-

sembles the head of a wild turkey.

2. If public education fails to improve the quality of instruction in both primary

and secondary schools, then it is likely that it will lose additional students to

the private sector in the years ahead.

3. Freedom of the press is the most important of our constitutionally guaranteed

freedoms. Without it, our other freedoms would be immediately threatened.

Furthermore, it provides the fulcrum for the advancement of new freedoms.

?4. A mammal is a vertebrate animal that nurses its offspring. Thus, cats and dogs

are mammals, as are sheep, monkeys, rabbits, and bears.

5. It is strongly recommended that you have your house inspected for termite

damage at the earliest possible opportunity.

6. Mosquito bites are not always the harmless little irritations most of us take

them to be. For example, some mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, and people

who are infected can become very sick or even die.

?7. If stem-cell research is restricted, then future cures will not materialize. If fu-

ture cures do not materialize, then people will die prematurely. Therefore, if

stem-cell research is restricted, then people will die prematurely

8. Fictional characters behave according to the same psychological probabilities

as real people. But the characters of fiction are found in exotic dilemmas that

real people hardly encounter. Consequently, fiction provides us with the op-

portunity to ponder how people react in uncommon situations, and to deduce

moral lessons, psychological principles, and philosophical insights from their

behavior.

(J. R. McCuen and A. C. Winkler, Readings for Writers, 4th ed.)

9. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples

who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside

pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own

destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through

economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and or-

derly political processes.

(President Truman, Address to Congress, 1947)

?10. Five college students who were accused of sneaking into the Cincinnati Zoo

and trying to ride the camels pleaded no contest to criminal trespass yester-

day. The students scaled a fence to get into the zoo and then climbed another

fence to get into the camel pit before security officials caught them, zoo of-

ficials said.

14. Lions at Kruger National Park in South Africa are dying of tuberculosis. “All of

the lions in the park may be dead within ten years because the disease is incur-

able, and the lions have no natural resistance,” said the deputy director of the

Department of Agriculture

15. Economics is of practical value in business. An understanding of the overall operation of the economic system puts the business executive in a better posi-

tion to formulate policies. The executive who understands the causes and con-

sequences of inflation is better equipped during inflationary periods to make

more-intelligent decisions than otherwise

18. No business concern wants to sell on credit to a customer who will prove un-

able or unwilling to pay his or her account. Consequently, most business or-

ganizations include a credit department which must reach a decision on the

credit worthiness of each prospective customer

24. If a man holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of

afterwards keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his

mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call

in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which can-

not easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin

against mankind

27. Haydn developed the string quartet from the eighteenth-century divertimento,

giving more substance to the light, popular form and scoring it for two violins,

a viola, and a cello. His eighty-three quartets, written over the course of his

creative lifetime, evolved slowly into a sophisticated form. Together they con-

stitute one of the most important bodies of chamber-music literature

30. The brain and the nervous system are composed of two types of cells—

neurons and glial cells. Neurons are responsible for information transmission

throughout the nervous system. Glial cells constitute the support system for

the neurons. For example, glial cells take away the waste products of neurons, keep the neurons’ chemical environment stable, and insulate them, allowing neurons to do their work more efficiently

?31. In areas where rats are a problem, it is very difficult to exterminate them with

bait poison. That’s because some rats eat enough poison to die but others eat

only enough to become sick and then learn to avoid that particular poison

taste in the future

33. If someone avoids and is afraid of everything, standing firm against nothing,

he becomes cowardly; if he is afraid of nothing at all and goes to face every-

thing, he becomes rash. Similarly, if he gratifies himself with every pleasure

and abstains from none, he becomes intemperate; if he avoids them all, he

becomes some sort of insensible person. Temperance and bravery, then, are

ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean

35. One form of energy can be converted to another. For example, when an elec-

tric motor is connected to a battery, chemical energy is converted to electrical

energy, which in turn is converted to mechanical energy