Information and IdeasVery hardCentral idea of a passage on a craft revival
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The revival of hand-loom weaving in the valley is often credited to a single designer who settled there in the 1970s. Interviews with older weavers complicate the story. Several had kept looms in working order through the lean decades, teaching grandchildren for no wage, so that when the designer arrived she found not a dead craft but a dormant one, with skilled hands ready. Her contribution was real, but it was to open a market, not to rescue a skill.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. The designer's role in the revival was to create demand for weaving that local weavers had quietly kept alive.Correct
- B. The designer taught the valley's weavers how to weave.
- C. Hand-loom weaving in the valley had died out completely before the 1970s.
- D. The older weavers oppose the designer's work.
Answer: A. The designer's role in the revival was to create demand for weaving that local weavers had quietly kept alive.
Dormant, not dead; she opened a market rather than rescuing a skill.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The designer taught the valley's weavers how to weave.
- The skill was already there.
- C. Hand-loom weaving in the valley had died out completely before the 1970s.
- It was dormant, not dead.
- D. The older weavers oppose the designer's work.
- Not suggested.
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