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Craft and Structure practice question

The gate to the meadow is left open from May to July. This is deliberate: the meadow is grazed by the farmer's ponies in those months, and they need to reach the stream on the far side.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

  1. A. To explain why the gate is left open in early summer.Correct
  2. B. To ask visitors to close the gate.
  3. C. To describe the stream.
  4. D. To complain about the ponies.

Answer: A. To explain why the gate is left open in early summer.

Open on purpose, for the ponies' water.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. To ask visitors to close the gate.
The opposite.
C. To describe the stream.
The stream is only the destination.
D. To complain about the ponies.
No complaint.

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