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Beneath the forest floor, a complex web of fungal threads known as mycelium connects the roots of individual trees. This network, often called the "Wood Wide Web," allows trees to share resources, such as carbon, nitrogen, and water, with one another. Through these underground pathways, a mature tree can transfer nutrients to a struggling sapling of a different species, ensuring the survival of the forest community as a whole. Fungi are classified as a distinct kingdom separate from plants and animals. However, this cooperation is not entirely altruistic; the fungi extract a portion of the sugars produced by the trees' photosynthesis to fuel their own growth.

The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence from the passage. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?

  1. A
    Kept, because it provides essential scientific context regarding the taxonomic classification of the organisms that make up the network.
  2. B
    Kept, because it transitions the focus of the paragraph from trees to the biological classification of fungi.
  3. Deleted, because it interrupts the paragraph's focus on the cooperative resource-sharing network with an irrelevant taxonomic detail.Cevap
  4. D
    Deleted, because it repeats information about the biological nature of fungi that was already established in the first sentence.

Cevap

Deleted, because it interrupts the paragraph's focus on the cooperative resource-sharing network with an irrelevant taxonomic detail.
The correct option correctly identifies that the underlined sentence should be deleted because it interrupts the paragraph's specific focus on the cooperative resource-sharing network between trees with an irrelevant taxonomic detail about the classification of fungi.

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1
Identify the primary topic and focus of the paragraph.
The paragraph focuses on the mutualistic resource-sharing network (mycorrhizal network) between trees, facilitated by fungal mycelium.
Establishing the main topic allows you to evaluate whether any specific sentence contributes directly to that topic or disrupts the flow.
2
Analyze the content and function of the underlined sentence.
The underlined sentence states that fungi are classified as a distinct kingdom separate from plants and animals, which is a broad taxonomic fact.
Understanding what information the sentence provides is necessary to determine if it is relevant to the paragraph's specific focus.
3
Evaluate the relevance of the underlined sentence to the paragraph's focus.
The sentence is irrelevant because the taxonomic classification of fungi does not explain how the resource-sharing network operates, nor does it fit the transition between the mutualistic sharing of nutrients and the extraction of sugars.
Comparing the sentence's content to the paragraph's focus helps determine if it should be kept or deleted.
4
Select the option that correctly states the decision to delete the sentence and provides the accurate rhetorical reason.
The option stating the sentence should be deleted because it interrupts the focus with an irrelevant taxonomic detail is selected.
Only one option contains both the correct decision (delete) and the correct justification (it interrupts the focus with irrelevant details).

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Evaluating relevance for adding or deleting content based on paragraph focus.
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