Craft and StructureEasyPurpose of a text about a museum gallery
Craft and Structure practice question
The museum's new gallery displays tools used by the town's shoemakers, from wooden lasts to the iron feet on which shoes were hammered. Each tool is labelled with the name of the workshop it came from.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To describe what the new gallery contains.Correct
- B. To explain how shoes are made.
- C. To argue that the museum needs more space.
- D. To advertise a shoe shop.
Answer: A. To describe what the new gallery contains.
What is on display and how it is labelled.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To explain how shoes are made.
- Tools are named, not the process.
- C. To argue that the museum needs more space.
- No argument about space.
- D. To advertise a shoe shop.
- No shop.
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