Craft and StructureVery hardPurpose of an opening anecdote
Craft and Structure practice question
The first time I saw a comet I was eleven, and I took it for a searchlight. That mistake, it turned out, was the beginning of an education, because the neighbour who corrected me lent me his telescope, and I did not give it back for a year.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To describe how a childhood mistake led the author into astronomy.Correct
- B. To explain what comets are made of.
- C. To complain about a neighbour.
- D. To describe how a telescope works.
Answer: A. To describe how a childhood mistake led the author into astronomy.
Mistake, correction, telescope: a beginning.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To explain what comets are made of.
- No science of comets.
- C. To complain about a neighbour.
- The neighbour helped.
- D. To describe how a telescope works.
- No mechanism.
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