soumya170293
Was little bit in a quandary for choosing the answer for question 1 . Could any one please help the POE for option D ?
" The passage implies which of the following about the five asteroids mentioned in line 12? "
(C) They are monoliths. ( Explicitly mentioned )
(D) They are composed of fragments that have escaped the gravity of larger asteroids. ( ' Conversely, most small asteroids should be monolithic, because impact fragments easily escape their feeble gravity. [ Though it hasn't been mentioned explicitly that the gravity is of the larger asteroids - but I 've chosen this 1 ]
Let's walk through the meaning of (D):
Quote:
(D) [The five asteroids mentioned in line 12] are composed of fragments that have escaped the gravity of larger asteroids.
By saying that the asteroids are "
composed of fragment
s," this answer choice is telling us that each one is NOT monolithic -- which is the opposite of what the passage implies! We know that these five asteroids are exceptional in that they rotate
quickly, which is impossible for rubble piles because the fragments would fly apart.
The sentence that you've quoted ("most small asteroids should be monolithic, because impact fragments easily escape their feeble gravity") again tells us that fragments would easily fly apart. This is further confirmation that the five quickly-rotating asteroids are NOT composed of fragments.
Finally, (D) specifies that five exception are composed of fragments that "have escaped the gravity of larger asteroids." There is simply no support for this claim in the passage -- while the last sentence does imply that fragments disperse after an asteroid impact, we are not given any information about the
specific origin stories of the five asteroids in question. Maybe they were formed from an earlier asteroid impact, but maybe not.
For these reasons, (D) is out.
I hope that helps!