Expression of IdeasVery hardUsing notes to accomplish a rhetorical goal
Expression of Ideas practice question
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on a Norwegian island in the Arctic.
- It opened in 2008.
- It holds more than 1.2 million seed samples from around the world.
- It is dug into permafrost, which keeps the seeds cold even if power fails.
- Its purpose is to protect the world's crop diversity against disasters.
The student wants to introduce the seed vault and its purpose to an audience unfamiliar with it. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, opened in the Norwegian Arctic in 2008, stores more than 1.2 million seed samples to protect the world's crop diversity against disasters.Correct
- B. The vault is dug into permafrost, which keeps the seeds cold if the power fails.
- C. More than 1.2 million seed samples were stored in the vault in 2008.
- D. Crop diversity protects the world's seeds against disasters.
Answer: A. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, opened in the Norwegian Arctic in 2008, stores more than 1.2 million seed samples to protect the world's crop diversity against disasters.
For newcomers: what it is, where and when, and why it exists. Choice A covers all of that.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The vault is dug into permafrost, which keeps the seeds cold if the power fails.
- This is a construction detail that assumes the reader already knows what the vault is.
- C. More than 1.2 million seed samples were stored in the vault in 2008.
- This misreads the notes — 2008 is when the vault OPENED, not when 1.2 million samples were stored — and gives no purpose.
- D. Crop diversity protects the world's seeds against disasters.
- This inverts the purpose: the vault protects crop diversity, not the other way round.
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