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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-021
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Boldface
Difficulty level: Hard

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For eleven years a levy on local property owners has covered the Vantor Transit Authority's commuter-line losses. That levy cannot rise without a referendum, and none has ever passed here. The Authority's new director therefore proposes closing its two least-used lines. But ridership on those two has risen a fifth, while the network's has fallen. Closing them would cost the Authority the only growing part of its network. The proposal should be rejected.

In the argument as a whole, the two boldface portions play which of the following roles?

AThe first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is evidence offered in support of that conclusion.

BThe first is a claim the argument goes on to dispute; the second is the ground on which the argument disputes it.

CThe first is evidence supporting the proposal the argument endorses; the second identifies a limit on that evidence.

DThe first is a constraint the argument accepts; the second is an intermediate conclusion supporting the main one.

EThe first is a constraint the argument accepts; the second is the argument's main conclusion.

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