Colleges boast about the great sizes of their libraries. They quote figures in the hundreds of thousands of volumes, but how many books can a student read in four years—a thousand? What good, then, are all the rest?

Which one of the following statements most accurately expresses the author’s main point?

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College librarians do not have anything about which they can boast.\n

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No student can read more than a thousand books in four years.

It is silly to boast about a library’s size, regardless of whether the library is large or small.

Unused books are a waste of taxpayers’ money.

College libraries are unnecessarily large.\nShow Answer\n

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What this question tests

Whether you can identify the argument's main conclusion as opposed to a supporting premise.

Selecting a restatement of a premise or a side point instead of the central conclusion.