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ID: LSAT-LR-159
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Hard

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Grower: The trade holds that a watercress bed crops best when the water crosses it slowly, and gives as the reason that slow water leaves more lime. That will not do: our fastest bed and our slowest are alike in soil and in stock, and they carry the same lime at the outfall. Slow water does lose its chill, and a cold bed crops nothing at any flow, whatever lime the water leaves in it.

The claim that a bed crops best when the water crosses it slowly plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

AIt is the view the grower's argument is directed against, the matching lime readings at his fastest bed and his slowest being what he offers to show that the trade has been wrong all along.

BIt is the claim the grower himself undertakes to support, by a route through the water's temperature rather than the lime the trade appeals to.

CIt is a claim the grower ascribes to the trade and treats as resting on a confusion between the lime a bed is given and the lime still in the water at the outfall.

DIt is a generalisation that the grower, on the strength of a comparison between two of his own beds, narrows to those beds whose water is cold enough for flow to matter.

EIt is the ground of his further claim that a bed too cold for the plants will crop nothing, whatever the flow.

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