For a function question, identify the claim immediately before the underlined material and the conclusion immediately after it. Then determine whether the underlined sentence supports, challenges, qualifies, or explains those ideas, paying close attention to scope distinctions such as supplementing one measure versus replacing it.
Hints
- Hint 1
Identify the objection
Determine what the project managers claim about the usefulness of adult bee counts.
- Hint 2
Examine the contrast
Consider how the sentence relates the number of adult bees to the outcomes of nests.
- Hint 3
Use the final sentence
Decide whether the underlined sentence supports, limits, or rejects the proposal described at the beginning.
Step-by-step
- Step 1
Identify the surrounding debate
Patel proposes evaluating bee corridors with both adult abundance and nest survival, but some managers argue that adult abundance alone is sufficient.
- Step 2
Determine what the sentence demonstrates
The underlined sentence presents a mechanism by which flowering strips attract many adult bees even though pesticide residues cause nests to fail. Thus, an apparently favorable adult count does not necessarily indicate successful reproduction.
- Step 3
Connect the mechanism to the conclusion
Because the two measures can produce different assessments of the same corridor, the sentence rebuts the claim that nest monitoring is unnecessary and supports Patel's two-measure proposal.