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The lighthouse keeper's garden was walled on three sides against the wind and open on the fourth to the south, and in it, on a rock a mile out to sea, he grew potatoes, cabbages, and one apple tree that never fruited but that he refused to cut down.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

  1. A. The keeper managed to garden on an exposed rock by sheltering the plot, and kept a fruitless tree out of attachment.Correct
  2. B. Apple trees cannot grow by the sea.
  3. C. The keeper sold his vegetables on the mainland.
  4. D. The garden was open on all sides.

Answer: A. The keeper managed to garden on an exposed rock by sheltering the plot, and kept a fruitless tree out of attachment.

Walls against the wind; a tree kept for its own sake.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Apple trees cannot grow by the sea.
The tree grew; it did not fruit.
C. The keeper sold his vegetables on the mainland.
Not stated.
D. The garden was open on all sides.
Walled on three.

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