Craft and StructureEasy–MediumPurpose of a text explaining a rule
Craft and Structure practice question
Visitors sometimes ask why the gallery forbids flash photography. The answer is not fussiness: the brief burst of intense light from a flash, repeated by thousands of visitors a year, fades the pigments in old paintings just as surely as sunlight does.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To explain the reason for a rule that visitors question.Correct
- B. To describe how cameras work.
- C. To encourage visitors to take photographs.
- D. To compare sunlight with electric light.
Answer: A. To explain the reason for a rule that visitors question.
Why the rule exists.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To describe how cameras work.
- No description of cameras.
- C. To encourage visitors to take photographs.
- The text discourages flash.
- D. To compare sunlight with electric light.
- Sunlight is a comparison, not the subject.
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