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Read the following paragraph. Four possible positions, labelled [A], [B], [C], and [D], are marked within it. From the options, choose the position where the given sentence best fits.
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly in popularity in cities across the world over the past fifteen years. [A] Advocates argue that rooftop hives support pollination of city gardens and raise public awareness of pollinator decline. [B] Some ecologists caution, however, that a sudden proliferation of managed honeybee colonies in a small area can crowd out native, wild bee species that compete for the same limited flowers. [C] A more sustainable urban pollinator strategy, these ecologists suggest, would pair any new honeybee hives with deliberate planting of diverse, native flowering species to support both managed and wild pollinators. [D]
Sentence to be inserted: *Native bees, unlike domesticated honeybees, cannot be relocated or managed, making them more vulnerable to this kind of competition.*
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly in popularity in cities across the world over the past fifteen years. [A] Advocates argue that rooftop hives support pollination of city gardens and raise public awareness of pollinator decline. [B] Some ecologists caution, however, that a sudden proliferation of managed honeybee colonies in a small area can crowd out native, wild bee species that compete for the same limited flowers. [C] A more sustainable urban pollinator strategy, these ecologists suggest, would pair any new honeybee hives with deliberate planting of diverse, native flowering species to support both managed and wild pollinators. [D]
Sentence to be inserted: *Native bees, unlike domesticated honeybees, cannot be relocated or managed, making them more vulnerable to this kind of competition.*
- A. [A]
- B. [B]
- C. [C]
- D. [D]
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Answer: (C) [C]
The inserted sentence explains why native bees are especially vulnerable to competition from managed honeybee colonies. This only makes logical sense right after the paragraph first raises that competition concern (the sentence ending '...compete for the same limited flowers', immediately before position [C]) and before the paragraph pivots, at [C], to the proposed solution ('A more sustainable urban pollinator strategy...'). Placing it at [A] or [B] is premature, since the competition problem has not yet been introduced. Placing it at [D], after the solution has already been proposed, breaks the logical flow of problem-then-solution. The correct position is [C].
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