Reading Comprehension: Structure Questions
The primary purpose of the second paragraph is to
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[[snippet]]Herman Daly's theory provides support for accepting the measures advocated in the third paragraph - not for rejecting them.
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[[snippet]]The second paragraph deals mainly with presenting the faults of mainstream economics rather than presenting an alternative.
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[[snippet]]The second paragraph is not concerned with the effects of a non-standard method, but with the effects of the current mainstream method.
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[[snippet]]The second paragraph highlights the misguided (=false) assumptions of a mainstream theory — not of a recent theory. According to the first paragraph of the passage, only the challenge to the mainstream theory is recent.
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By introducing the thought of Professor Daly, the second paragraph exemplifies (=provides an example) of the approach of ecological economics.
