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Which one of the following sentences would best complete the last paragraph of the passage?
Options:
A .  By limiting consumers’ choices, abuse of monopoly power reduces consumers’ welfare, but monopoly alone can sometimes actually operate in the consumers’ best interest.  
B .  What is needed now is a set of related laws to deal with the negative impacts that monopoly itself has on consumers’ ability to purchase products at reasonable cost.
C .  Over time, the antitrust laws have been very effective in ensuring competition and, consequently, consumers’ welfare in the volatile communications and computer systems industries.
D .  By controlling supracompetitive prices and corresponding supracompetitive profits, the antitrust laws have, indeed, gone a long way towards meeting that objective.
Answer: Option A
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A
In the last paragraph, the author explains the actual purpose of antitrust laws: it is abuse of monopoly power and not monopoly itself. Option A would be ideal to complete the paragraph, as it talks about effects of monopoly power and abuse of monopoly power. All other options can be easily eliminated as they do not talk about monopoly power.

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