Verbal Aptitude

Argument: 'Developing high-temperature-tolerant wheat varieties will protect national food security against climate change over the next thirty years.' The argument depends on assuming that:

Options:

• (A) Climate change will not cause other disruptions, such as severe droughts or novel virulent blights, that devastate wheat yields regardless of temperature tolerance.
• (B) Wheat is the only cereal crop consumed by the national population.
• (C) Global temperatures will stabilize within the next two decades.
• (D) High-temperature-tolerant wheat requires zero nitrogen fertilization.