Post-UTME English Language 2007 Objective — Question 2

Question 2 of 15 from the Post-UTME Screening (Post-UTME) English Language 2007 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

[Passage: on 'hot spots' - isolated regions of volcanic activity not at tectonic plate boundaries, used by geologists to track the slow movement of Earth's plates, e.g. showing the African plate has been stationary for about 30 million years.] The author regards the theory that the plates making up the earth's surface move as

A. discredited
B. irrefutable
C. relative
D. tentativeCorrect

Explanation

The passage frames plate motion and its interpretation with careful, hedged language ('it appears', 'cannot readily be...'), indicating a tentative rather than settled theory.

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