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Hi there, thanks for your post. This stimulus presents a set of facts, and the question stem is a Must Be True question. This means that the correct answer choice must be textually supported by the stimulus. The correct answer is (D): "To be economically more successful, Europe needs to train more people in the new technologies." According to the stimulus, this must be true: we are told "the most successful economies have been, and will continue to be, those that train as many people as possible in the human skills required to research, to develop, and to apply new technology." We are also told that "Europe as a whole" is not doing this as well as Japan, and that in Europe "there is a shortage of skilled labor trained to use the new technologies, and there are not enough scientists able to develop and apply the technology." Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions.