Question

Read the passage below and then answer the question.

Children should be encouraged to play sports because participation in sports builds important life skills such as leadership, fairness, and teamwork. Sports like soccer require children to work as a team, to practice regularly, and to develop new skills. In soccer, children must also learn plays. When executing these plays, every individual must work together in a specific role; this teaches children how to work together. Since sports are based on competition, participants also learn how to lose gracefully and develop a sense of fair play. Children who participate in sports develop a stronger sense of self-esteem and responsibility than children who favor other activities. Therefore, all parents should enroll their children in some sort of sporting activity as early as possible.

You can evaluate the validity of a writer’s reasoning by identifying the writer’s argument, determining whether the evidence is sufficient and relevant, determining whether the writing used fallacious reasoning, and coming to a conclusion.


Which statement most effectively evaluates the argument in the paragraph?

Question 1 options:

"The claims are valid with the exception of the statement, “Sports like soccer require children to work as a team, to practice regularly, and to develop new skills.”


The evidence is irrelevant to the argument that playing sports builds life skills.


The claims are valid with the exception of the statement “all parents should enroll their students in some sort of sporting activity as early as possible.”

Answer 1

The 3 one

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

See below. Third statement is likely the answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

I suppose the answer to the question is the third choice. There's nothing the matter with the claim that soccer requires children to work as a team (it is a team sport), to practice regularly and to develop new skills. If you practice regularly, there's no doubt you will get better.

The second choice is developing a team with specific roles. It does teach children to work together. How can these activities not build important life skills? We need to know things like working together, losing gracefully and that skills do not come naturally. One must work for them.

We have to forgive the writer's enthusiasm for claiming that parents ought to enroll their children immediately and I suppose this is the answer. However I think it is a small transgression in the author's mind, if it is one. There's so much benefit that it is not a bad idea to raise children by asking them to participate in sports.