Expression of IdeasMediumProviding a definition for an unfamiliar term
Expression of Ideas practice question
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- A 'bothy' is a simple shelter in the Scottish hills.
- Bothies are unlocked and free for anyone to use.
- Most were once shepherds' or gamekeepers' cottages.
- Volunteers maintain about 100 of them.
The student wants to define the term 'bothy' for readers unfamiliar with it. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A. A bothy is a simple, unlocked shelter in the Scottish hills that anyone may use for free.Correct
- B. Volunteers maintain about 100 bothies.
- C. Bothies were once cottages.
- D. Scotland has many hills.
Answer: A. A bothy is a simple, unlocked shelter in the Scottish hills that anyone may use for free.
What it is, where, and how it is used: a definition.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Volunteers maintain about 100 bothies.
- How many, not what.
- C. Bothies were once cottages.
- Their past, not a definition.
- D. Scotland has many hills.
- Not about bothies.
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