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Craft and Structure practice question

The sundial on the church wall is an hour wrong all summer. Visitors assume it is broken. It is not: it was set before summer time was introduced, and it has kept the sun's own hour ever since, while the clocks around it have moved.

Which choice best describes the function of the last sentence?

  1. A. It explains that the sundial's apparent error is really the clocks' departure from solar time.Correct
  2. B. It confirms that the sundial is broken.
  3. C. It describes how a sundial works.
  4. D. It argues that summer time should be abolished.

Answer: A. It explains that the sundial's apparent error is really the clocks' departure from solar time.

'It is not': the dial kept the sun's hour; the clocks moved.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It confirms that the sundial is broken.
The sentence says it is not broken.
C. It describes how a sundial works.
Mechanism is not explained.
D. It argues that summer time should be abolished.
No such argument.

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