Thanks for the question! So let’s take a look at what we’re being told here. Several cosmetics firms are committed to basically pushing these tests that use cultures of human cells. The reason for this, they argue, is that with these tests, they won’t need to test on live animals as much.
Now we need to find something that’s most strongly supported by those statements. Well, let’s take a look at (D), which tells us that researchers in the cosmetics firms believe that fewer tests of products will be needed if cell cultures rather than live animals are used. No, it’s not something we can get from the passage. Nothing tells us that we might need fewer actual tests themselves. While this would help strengthen the argument, it’s not itself supported by it, and that’s what makes it wrong. The stimulus just says there will be fewer tests on animals, not fewer tests overall.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
MKJFebruary 22, 2022
I still don’t understand how answer choice E is correct. Could you please explain that?
Emil-KunkinMarch 23, 2022
Hi MKJ, the companies in question are developing a new product that does not use animals, and justify it on the basis that the new method will not need animal testing. We can gather that the since the switch is justified by saying it will no longer use animal testing, the managers must think that animal testing is less than idea. This fits well with how R is phrased.
