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TOEFL iBTReadingInference and Rhetorical Purpose
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Passage: 'Why does the author mention that 'the coelacanth was presumed to have vanished in the late Cretaceous mass extinction alongside non-avian dinosaurs until a live specimen was hauled from a South African trawl net in 1938'?'
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