Step 1: Key points from the passage.
- Ravi is hardworking and kind.
- A majority of Ravi's friends share these traits (hardworking and kind).
- A portion of Ravi's friends lack interest in sports.
Step 2: Analyze options.
- (A) "All of Ravi's friends are hardworking and kind." → Uncertain; "almost all" does not equate to "all".
- (B) "No one who is not Ravi's friend is hardworking and kind." → Not supported by the provided text.
- (C) "None of Ravi's friends are interested in sports." → Incorrect; the text states "some" are disinterested, implying others are not.
- (D) "Some of Ravi's friends are hardworking and kind." → Conclusively true, as "almost all" necessitates "some". \[\boxed{\text{The correct answer is (D).}}\]
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1,2,3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: The discovery helps to explain archeological similarities between the Paleolithic peoples of China, Japan, and the Americas.
Paragraph: The researchers also uncovered an unexpected genetic link between Native Americans and Japanese people. (1)__ . During the deglaciation period, another group branched out from northern coastal China and travelled to Japan.
(2) _. "We were surprised to find that this ancestral source also contributed to the Japanese gene pool, especially the indigenous Ainus," says Li. _ (3) _. They shared similarities in how they crafted stemmed projectile points for arrowheads and spears.
__(4)__. "This suggests that the Pleistocene connection among the Americas, China, and Japan was not confined to culture but also to genetics," says senior author Qing-Peng Kong, an evolutionary geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.