CR Question (Tricky)

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<p>It’s a tricky level 5 question. I will be glad if you help me with that. </p>

<p>Passage:
A blog can seem like a waste of time to some, since there is no guarantee readers will come and comment. Maintaining it with new posts and an interesting layout can seem like a chore. Why does someone bother to create a blog if it isn’t to peddle a product or to get in touch with consumers? [ The principal reason to blog is because you have something to say," claims one expert on blogging. “While the cadre of readers may be small, it is not really how many sets of eyeballs are reading your material that’s important, but who the eyeballs belong to. Blogs are written by influencers, and it is often other influencers that read them.”]</p>

<p>Question: In the context of the passage, the quotation in lines 18-24 primarily serves to
(A) analyze a hypothesis
(B) account for a phenomenon
(C) advocate an action
(D) pose a question
(E) qualify a claim </p>

<p>I was struck when I found out that the answer is B … So why? Why not E? What does choice B mean?</p>

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<p>Sorry for not pointing out the quotation clearly, it begins from ( The principal reason to blog is … to the end of the passage)</p>

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<p>The phenomenon is blogging. The statement accounts for why people do it.</p>

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<p>To answer the question you should look the sentence that is right before the quotation. It is a question. It means the quotation is the answer to the question. For the answer to be “to qualify a claim”, the sentence before the quotation should state a claim.</p>

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<p>It’s obvious (to me at least) that the quotations give an explanation or “account for” a phenomenon. What claim is qualified?</p>

<p>The phenomenon of “why do people write blogs when people may not read them” is accounted for by those lines.</p>

<p>Hopefully that cleared things up.</p>

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<p>I see, Thank you both!</p>