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8. Which of the following best describes the relationship of the final paragraph to the passage as a whole?

Difficulty Level: 500

Explanation

Logical structure

Consider the final paragraph in the context of the whole passage to evaluate its relationship to the whole. The first two paragraphs examine job segregation in an unspecified but earlier time. The final paragraph brings the reader into the twentieth century, when, as the example drawn from the Second World War shows, job segregation persisted. Thus, the final paragraph updates and reinforces the author’s thesis about the persistence of job segregation.

a. Correct. The central idea that sex segregation continued in the twentieth-century workplace is reinforced with an example from the Second World War.

b. The central idea is the persistence of job segregation, which is the only topic in the paragraph.

c. The last paragraph supports the passage; no apparently contradictory evidence is introduced.

d. The last paragraph supports the central idea with a twentieth-century example; no exceptions are either entertained or dismissed.

e. Twentieth-century history is cited to support the central idea, not to show that its validity is diminishing.

The correct answer is A.