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Every October the village of Ashby holds a bread festival. Bakers from the surrounding farms bring loaves made from that year's wheat, and the whole village judges them. The prize is small, a wooden spoon, but families have competed for it for six generations, and the recipes are guarded like heirlooms.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

  1. A. Ashby's bread festival is a long-standing tradition that matters to the village far more than its small prize suggests.Correct
  2. B. The bread festival's prize is a wooden spoon.
  3. C. Bakers in Ashby use wheat from that year's harvest.
  4. D. Bread festivals are common in farming villages.

Answer: A. Ashby's bread festival is a long-standing tradition that matters to the village far more than its small prize suggests.

Six generations and guarded recipes for a spoon.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The bread festival's prize is a wooden spoon.
A detail.
C. Bakers in Ashby use wheat from that year's harvest.
A detail.
D. Bread festivals are common in farming villages.
Only Ashby is discussed.

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