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Craft and Structure practice question

The lane is lined with pollarded willows, cut back to the trunk every few years. The pollarding looks like neglect to a visitor. It is the opposite: a pollarded willow lives three times as long as one left to grow, and these trees have been kept alive this way since the 1700s.

Which choice best describes the function of the third sentence?

  1. A. It corrects the visitor's impression by explaining that the practice prolongs the trees' lives.Correct
  2. B. It argues that the willows should be felled.
  3. C. It describes how pollarding is done.
  4. D. It agrees that the trees are neglected.

Answer: A. It corrects the visitor's impression by explaining that the practice prolongs the trees' lives.

'It is the opposite': three times the life.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It argues that the willows should be felled.
Not argued.
C. It describes how pollarding is done.
Method is in the first sentence.
D. It agrees that the trees are neglected.
The reverse.

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