ibps-so 2019 · Question 5 of 300

Which one of the following best expresses the central argument of the passage?

1. AThat what distinguishes the present loss of species is its rate and its human cause, and that the case for acting rests less upon usefulness than upon the resilience of a system that has many partsCorrect
2. BThat extinction is a natural process and that the present concern about it has been much exaggerated
3. CThat nature reserves are the only instrument by which the loss of species can be arrested
4. DThat the value of wild organisms to medicine and to agriculture is the soundest reason for conserving them
5. EThat the loss of species has already gone too far to be worth resisting