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ID: SAT-RW-CS-033
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Craft and Structure
Topic: Text Structure and Purpose
Difficulty level: Medium

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When a foraging honeybee returns to the hive having found a rich patch of flowers, it performs a looping, figure-eight movement on the honeycomb that other bees crowd around to watch. The zoologist Karl von Frisch showed that this ‘waggle dance’ is not mere excitement but a coded message: the angle of the waggle run signals the direction of the food relative to the sun, and the length of the run signals how far away it lies. A returning scout, in other words, does not simply announce that food exists; it tells its hivemates where to fly and how far.

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

AIt raises a doubt about whether the dance truly guides the movements of other bees.

BIt identifies the specific information the described movement encodes, a point the final sentence then restates in plain terms.

CIt shifts the passage's attention from a single returning bee to the behavior of the hive as a whole. On this reading the sentence turns from the one returning scout to the whole hive’s behavior, a change of scale that is not what it is doing.

DIt offers an exception that qualifies the description of the movement given in the opening sentence.

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