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ID: SAT-RW-CS-007
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Craft and Structure
Topic: Text Structure and Purpose
Difficulty level: Medium

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The composer Ines Ballester spent years traveling through mountain villages, filling notebooks with folk melodies she heard sung at markets and seasonal festivals. Critics often call her symphonies her most original achievement, praising their unusual harmonies as though she had conjured them from nothing. Ballester herself resisted that description. Nearly every theme in those symphonies, she noted, could be traced to a tune she had first written down in someone else’s voice.

Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?

AIt offers an example of the folk melodies mentioned earlier in order to celebrate the range of regional music Ballester collected.

BIt supplies the basis for Ballester’s disagreement with the critics, explaining why she regarded her themes as adapted rather than invented.

CIt draws a contrast between the notebooks Ballester kept early in her career and the symphonies she composed later.

DIt turns the passage’s attention away from Ballester’s music toward the daily lives of the villagers who first sang the melodies.

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