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Craft and Structure practice question

The museum's dinosaur hall is its most popular room. Children can touch a real fossil there, and a model T. rex roars every hour.

Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?

  1. A. It gives reasons why the hall is popular.Correct
  2. B. It says where the hall is.
  3. C. It gives the museum's opening hours.
  4. D. It warns that the hall is noisy.

Answer: A. It gives reasons why the hall is popular.

A fossil to touch and a roaring model: the reasons.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It says where the hall is.
No location.
C. It gives the museum's opening hours.
"every hour" is the roar, not the opening hours.
D. It warns that the hall is noisy.
The roar is an attraction, not a warning.

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