Craft and StructureEasy–MediumPurpose of a passage about a practice
Craft and Structure practice question
The reading room's clock is kept ten minutes fast. The librarian sets it so on purpose: the last readers, seeing the hour, leave in time for the doors to be locked at six exactly, and nobody has yet been shut in.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To explain a deliberate practice and the reason behind it.Correct
- B. To argue that the reading room should close later.
- C. To describe the clock's mechanism.
- D. To complain about the librarian.
Answer: A. To explain a deliberate practice and the reason behind it.
The fast clock and why.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To argue that the reading room should close later.
- Not argued.
- C. To describe the clock's mechanism.
- Not described.
- D. To complain about the librarian.
- No complaint.
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