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The chemist was famous for a strange habit: she repeated every successful experiment once more, on a different day, before writing it up. Colleagues called it a waste of a day. In thirty years the repeat failed four times, and each of those four would have been a published error. She did not think of the habit as caution. She thought of it as the experiment.

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

  1. A. It reframes the habit the colleagues dismissed as the essential part of her method rather than an addition to it.Correct
  2. B. It agrees with the colleagues that the habit wasted time.
  3. C. It describes one of the four failed repeats.
  4. D. It explains how the experiments were written up.

Answer: A. It reframes the habit the colleagues dismissed as the essential part of her method rather than an addition to it.

Not caution: the experiment itself.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It agrees with the colleagues that the habit wasted time.
It answers the colleagues.
C. It describes one of the four failed repeats.
No repeat is described.
D. It explains how the experiments were written up.
Writing up is mentioned earlier only.

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