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ID: SAT-RW-CS-046
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Craft and Structure
Topic: Text Structure and Purpose
Difficulty level: Easy

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A young sunflower does something most plants cannot: it follows the sun. Through the day its blossom swings slowly from east to west, tracking the light, and through the night it swings back to face east before dawn. Once the plant matures, the swinging stops and the flower settles facing east for good. Biologists have found a reason worth the effort: an east-facing bloom warms faster in the morning sun, and the warmer flowers draw noticeably more visiting bees.

Which choice best describes the main purpose of the text?

ATo describe a surprising behavior of a familiar plant and give the advantage that explains it.

BTo argue that sunflowers are more intelligent than the plants around them. On this reading the passage sets out to establish that sunflowers outthink the plants around them, a claim it never makes.

CTo explain the reason mature sunflowers stop tracking the sun.

DTo compare a young sunflower’s daytime movement with its movement at night.

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