hard · GRE Verbal

Public-health officials worried that a new vaccination campaign would falter because many residents distrusted the clinics offering it. **They predicted that fewer than half of eligible residents would receive the vaccine within the first month.** To their surprise, uptake exceeded seventy percent in that period. **The officials now suspect that the door-to-door outreach they added late in the planning, almost as an afterthought, was the campaign's decisive component.** In the argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles? (A) The first is a prediction that proved inaccurate; the second is a hypothesis the argument offers to account for why it proved inaccurate. (B) The first is the argument's conclusion; the second is evidence supporting that conclusion. (C) The first is a hypothesis under consideration; the second is data that confirms it. (D) Both boldface portions describe outcomes the officials had anticipated. (E) The first is evidence for the argument's main claim; the second is an objection to that claim.

1. The first is a prediction that proved inaccurate; the second is a hypothesis the argument offers to account for why it proved inaccurate.
2. The first is the officials' overall main conclusion about uptake; the second is evidence the argument offers in direct support of that conclusion.
3. The first is a working hypothesis about uptake the officials weigh; the second is observed data the argument presents as confirming it.
4. Both boldface portions describe uptake outcomes the officials had anticipated and expected in advance before the vaccination campaign actually began.
5. The first is evidence offered for the argument's main claim; the second is an objection raised later that works against that claim.

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