Information and IdeasEasy–MediumMain idea: a lighthouse's keeper of bees
Information and Ideas practice question
The lighthouse keeper kept bees on the rock for thirty years. There were no flowers on the rock, so the bees flew two miles to the mainland and back each day, and the keeper's honey, sold in the harbour shop, tasted of the mainland's clover. Visitors could never quite believe where it came from.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. A lighthouse keeper produced honey on a barren rock because his bees foraged on the distant mainland.Correct
- B. Bees can fly two miles.
- C. The honey was sold in the harbour shop.
- D. Visitors did not like the honey.
Answer: A. A lighthouse keeper produced honey on a barren rock because his bees foraged on the distant mainland.
Bees on a rock, clover from the mainland.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Bees can fly two miles.
- A detail.
- C. The honey was sold in the harbour shop.
- A detail.
- D. Visitors did not like the honey.
- They disbelieved its origin, not its taste.
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