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Difficulty: MediumMeeting Specific Rhetorical Goals

Passage Excerpt:

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located deep within a mountain on a remote Arctic island. [1] The facility secures millions of crop seeds from around the world, safeguarding global biodiversity against catastrophic loss.

The writer wants to add a phrase at the beginning of the second sentence (replacing '[1]') to highlight the vault's geological stability and natural security. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?

  1. Carved into solid sandstone and surrounded by permafrost,Answer
  2. B
    Built in 2008 at a cost of nine million dollars,
  3. C
    Carved into solid sandstone, the mountain is surrounded by permafrost,
  4. D
    Carved into solid sandstone, that is frozen and stable,

Answer

Carved into solid sandstone and surrounded by permafrost,
The correct choice successfully addresses the rhetorical goal by emphasizing the solid sandstone (geological stability) and permafrost (natural security) of the vault's location. Grammatically, it functions as a correct introductory participial modifier for the main clause.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the prompt to identify the specific rhetorical goal.
The goal is to highlight the vault's 'geological stability' and 'natural security.'
Understanding the specific rhetorical criteria is necessary to filter out choices that do not focus on these details.
2
Evaluate the choices based on the rhetorical goal.
Only the correct option and the comma splice option mention sandstone (geological stability) and permafrost (natural security). The option containing the construction date and financial details is irrelevant to the goal.
This narrows the options down to those that satisfy the content requirements of the prompt.
3
Examine the remaining options for grammatical correctness.
The option containing the mountain clause is a comma splice, and the option separating 'that' with a comma is a punctuation error. The correct option is grammatically sound.
ACT English questions require the selected choice to be both rhetorically effective and grammatically correct.

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Meeting Specific Rhetorical Goals
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