Music student: Textbooks on the history of orchestral music generally devote only a small amount of coverage to the music of the past fifty years. The textbook authors generally wish to reflect the consensus among musicologists and critics regarding what are the greatest works in musical history. Thus, the consensus of these experts must be that the vast majority of history's greatest orchestral music was produced more than fifty years ago, since __

Which of the following, if correct, would most logically complete the music student's argument?

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the authors intended the textbooks to cover each orchestral musical period in proportion to how much of history's greatest orchestral music was produced in that period

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no expert judge of musical quality considers most of the orchestral music produced in the past fifty years to be among history's greatest

the orchestral music to which the textbooks devote the most coverage is typically that which the authors have spent their careers studying

almost all the orchestral music covered in the textbooks is considered to be among history's greatest by experts who have spent their careers studying music

almost all expert judges of musical quality have developed their expertise at least in part by studying textbooks on the history of orchestral music

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What this question tests

What it tests

Whether you can complete the last sentence of an argument in a way that is logically consistent with it.

Common trap

Choosing an option that sounds plausible but contradicts the argument or introduces new information.