What’s the correct answer? Read this excerpt from Alan Weisman's "The City Without Us":
"When this pump facility shuts down,' says [Paul] Schuber,
"in half an hour water reaches a level where trains can't
pass anymore."
Which claim does the excerpt most clearly support?
A. The human impact on the environment is permanent.
B. Cities provide ecosystems just like forests and deserts.
C. Natural disasters will ultimately lead to humanity's downfall.
D. Without humanity's presence, New York City would quickly
deteriorate.

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this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.