medium · LSAT Reading Comprehension
A passage on coral reefs devotes its first paragraph to describing the prevailing scientific account of why reefs are declining. The second paragraph begins, 'Yet a handful of recent surveys complicate this account,' and presents data the standard account cannot easily absorb.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the role the second paragraph plays in the passage?
- It brings forward evidence that puts pressure on the established account laid out just before it.
- It restates the passage's main conclusions so the reader can more easily retain them.
- It supplies the technical vocabulary needed to show the passage takes no position.
- It offers additional confirmation that strengthens the prevailing account of paragraph one.
- It dismisses the prevailing account as entirely mistaken and installs a fully formed rival theory.
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