Information and IdeasVery hardMain idea: a lighthouse keeper's margins
Information and Ideas practice question
The lighthouse was automated in 1988, and the last keeper left. His logbooks, kept every day for thirty years, went to the county archive, where they were catalogued as weather records. It was a botanist, twenty years later, who noticed that the keeper had also written, in the margins, the first flowering date of every plant on the rock.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. A keeper's overlooked marginal notes turned his weather logs into a long botanical record.Correct
- B. The lighthouse was automated in 1988.
- C. The archive catalogued the logbooks.
- D. Botanists often visit archives.
Answer: A. A keeper's overlooked marginal notes turned his weather logs into a long botanical record.
Weather logs, and thirty years of flowering dates.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The lighthouse was automated in 1988.
- A detail.
- C. The archive catalogued the logbooks.
- A detail.
- D. Botanists often visit archives.
- Not stated.
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