easy · GRE Verbal
Sleep researchers have documented that adolescents' circadian rhythms shift later during the teenage years, making early waking biologically difficult. Districts that moved their first bell from 7:30 to 8:30 have reported higher attendance, better grades in first-period classes, and fewer car accidents among student drivers. **The Brookfield school district should adopt a later start time for its high schools.** To be sure, **a later start would complicate bus scheduling and push some athletic practices into the evening**, and these logistical burdens fall hardest on working parents. But districts that made the change found the disruptions faded within a single school year, while the academic benefits endured.
In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
- The first is evidence offered for the argument's recommendation; the second is that recommendation itself.
- The first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is a drawback that the argument acknowledges and then discounts.
- The first is a position that the argument rejects; the second is the evidence that is used to reject that position.
- The first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is the principal evidence offered in support of that conclusion.
- The first is an intermediate conclusion; the second is an objection that ultimately overturns the recommendation.
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