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单项选择题

Questions 10—11 are based on the following:
Antinuclear activist: The closing of the nuclear power plant is a victory for the antinuclear cause. It also represents a belated acknowledgment by the power industry that they cannot operate such plants safely.
Nuclear power plant manager: It represents no such thing. The availability of cheap power from nonnuclear sources, together with the cost of mandated safety inspections and safety repairs, made continued operation uneconomic. Thus it was not safety considerations but economic considerations that dictated the plant’s closing. Over the last century, paleontologists have used small differences between fossil specimens to classify Triceratops into sixteen species. This classification is unjustified, however, since the specimens used to distinguish eleven of the species come from animals that lived in the same area at the same time. Which of the following, if true, would enable the conclusion of the argument to be properly drawn

A. Not every species that lived in a given area is preserved as a fossil.
B. At least one individual of every true species of Triceratops has been discovered as a fossil specimen.
C. No geographical area ever supports more than three similar species at the same time.
D. In many species, individuals display quite marked variation.
E. Differences between fossil specimens of Triceratops that came from the same area are no less distinctive than differences between specimens that came from different areas.