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In recent years, several urban US airports haveconverted some of the unused land past theirrunways to provide habitats for honeybees. Whileairports may seem unlikely locations for beekeeping, many of them, in fact, have the potential to offerideal conditions for an apiary (a group of beehives). The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, for instance, hosts an apiary on a 400-square-footarea of land just north of one of its runways. This area is rich in Dutch clover, a preferred foodsource for honeybees. The honeybees may thrive there in part because they aren'texposed to the agricultural pesticides suspected of contributing to Colony CollapseDisorder. Though unorthodox, airport-based honeybee habitats can help to ensure that localregions have healthy populations of honeybees.

The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept ordeleted?

A.Kept, because it provides support for the paragraph's claim about airports being able to offersuitable habitats for honeybees.

B.Kept, because it acknowledges a counterargument to the paragraph's claim about thebenefits of apiaries.

C.Deleted, because it blurs the paragraph's focus on airport apiaries by introducing anirrelevant detail about Colony Collapse Disorder.

D.Deleted, because it disrupts the logical sequence of steps outlined in the paragraph'sexplanation of how to set up an airport apiary.

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答案：A

解析：

Choice A is the best answer because it retains a relevant sentence and offers a sound reason for doing so: because the sentence explains another feature of the urban airport locations—that they're distant from areas that use agricultural pesticides—and provides support for the paragraph's claim that airports may offer suitable habitats for honeybees.

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