Question

Part A
Which sentence in Passage 1 is a claim made by the author?

• When the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in the ice off the Antarctic coast on Christmas Eve, it created a drama that quickly grabbed the world’s attention. (paragraph 1)
• The 52 scientists, journalists, and tourists on the ship acted entitled instead of being embarrassed by their entirely avoidable predicament. (paragraph 2)
• On January 7 on PRI, New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin dismissed the AAE’s work as “boutique science.” (paragraph 10)
• Still unreckoned is that gigantic financial cost and who will pay for it. (paragraph 13)

Answer 1

You need to read the entire passage in order to see what the author thought.