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Carrots were not originally orange. Wild carrots and the earliest cultivated ones were white, yellow or purple. The orange variety was bred in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century and spread because it was sweeter and kept well — not, as the legend has it, to honour the Dutch royal house.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. The orange carrot is a fairly recent variety that succeeded on its merits rather than for the political reason legend gives.Correct
- B. Carrots have always been orange.
- C. The Dutch royal house bred the first orange carrot.
- D. Purple carrots are sweeter than orange ones.
Answer: A. The orange carrot is a fairly recent variety that succeeded on its merits rather than for the political reason legend gives.
Origins, then the real reason for the orange carrot's spread, then the dismissed legend — choice A captures the whole.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Carrots have always been orange.
- The first sentence says the opposite.
- C. The Dutch royal house bred the first orange carrot.
- The text says the carrot did NOT spread to honour the royal house, and doesn't say the royals bred it.
- D. Purple carrots are sweeter than orange ones.
- The text says the orange variety was sweeter.
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