Question
Answer: A. The paragraph builds toward the careful claim that the failure of fair-contest assumptions weakens the standard defence but does not by itself justify restriction. A is the only summary that preserves this two-sided structure. • Runner-up: B. Tempting because attention-driven distortion is named in the paragraph. But B says the case against restriction is “weakened,” which is closer to the author’s claim, yet drops the explicit caveat that restriction is not thereby justified. True but incomplete on the central qualification.
• C. Goes further than the paragraph allows by suggesting restrictions “may sometimes be justified.”
• D. True but partial; misses the central conclusion about what cannot be invoked.
Detailed solution
Q18. Answer: A. The paragraph builds toward the careful claim that the failure of fair-contest assumptions weakens the standard defence but does not by itself justify restriction. A is the only summary that preserves this two-sided structure. • Runner-up: B. Tempting because attention-driven distortion is named in the paragraph. But B says the case against restriction is “weakened,” which is closer to the author’s claim, yet drops the explicit caveat that restriction is not thereby justified. True but incomplete on the central qualification.
• C. Goes further than the paragraph allows by suggesting restrictions “may sometimes be justified.”
• D. True but partial; misses the central conclusion about what cannot be invoked.