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In each of these questions, four of the five sentences when arranged in order contribute to the main idea of a paragraph. Find the sentence which does not contribute to the main idea of the paragraph.
(A) Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era - and of human civilization.
(B) The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.
(C) This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.
(D) The Earth's climate has changed throughout history.
(E) Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth's orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
  • a)
    D
  • b)
    C
  • c)
    E
  • d)
    B
  • e)
    A
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Earth's climate has changed throughout history - Sentence D - a preview of such a change - Sentence A - these changes are attributed to variation in Earth's orbit - Sentence E - this trend is mainly due to human induced activities - Sentence B. However, Sentence C mentions 'This body of data' which is not mentioned anywhere in the paragraph, hence sentence C does not belong.
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