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Craft and StructureHardFunction of a sentence in a passage on a scientist's method

Craft and Structure practice question

The botanist kept every failed experiment in her notebooks alongside the successes, in the same ink and the same careful hand. Her students found this puzzling; failures, they thought, were to be forgotten. She disagreed. A failure recorded is a path closed, she told them, and a path closed is a path no one need walk again.

Which choice best describes the function of the sentence "She disagreed" in the text as a whole?

  1. A. It marks the turn from the students' view to the botanist's reasoning, which the final sentence then gives.Correct
  2. B. It shows that the botanist stopped recording failures.
  3. C. It explains why the students were puzzled.
  4. D. It summarises the botanist's method.

Answer: A. It marks the turn from the students' view to the botanist's reasoning, which the final sentence then gives.

A pivot from their view to hers.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It shows that the botanist stopped recording failures.
She kept recording them.
C. It explains why the students were puzzled.
The puzzlement is in the previous sentence.
D. It summarises the botanist's method.
The method is in the first sentence.

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