Sentence to be inserted: “Every step of our work follows an ancestral technique from Ghana,” Kwame stresses.
Paragraph:
The brothers honour the ways their grandfather wove and repaired cloth. (1) ______. He illustrates his point by describing how they make a ceremonial kente. They prepare the fibre, weave the strips on a single loom and use hand tools rather than modern power looms. (2) ______. Their workshop has a two-year waitlist for cloths that take weeks to create. (3) ______. The family’s craftsmanship has attracted distinguished patrons who own cloths made by all three generations. (4) ______. Both brothers entered the family trade as children.
Q11. Where should the given sentence be inserted?
Paragraph:
The brothers honour the ways their grandfather wove and repaired cloth. (1) ______. He illustrates his point by describing how they make a ceremonial kente. They prepare the fibre, weave the strips on a single loom and use hand tools rather than modern power looms. (2) ______. Their workshop has a two-year waitlist for cloths that take weeks to create. (3) ______. The family’s craftsmanship has attracted distinguished patrons who own cloths made by all three generations. (4) ______. Both brothers entered the family trade as children.
Q11. Where should the given sentence be inserted?
Answer and solution
Correct answer: C
Solution
Answer: C — Blank 1
1. The quotation identifies Kwame as the speaker and states his claim about inherited techniques. Its role is to express the principle behind the brothers’ work.
2. At blank 1 it follows the introduction to their grandfather’s methods. The next sentence, “He illustrates his point”, naturally refers to Kwame and the claim he has just made.
3. The description of preparing fibres and weaving strips then supplies the example. The sequence is introduction → speaker’s claim → example → details.
4. At blank 2 the quotation would follow the example instead of introducing the point being illustrated. More importantly, “He illustrates his point” would lack the immediately preceding statement by Kwame that it is meant to develop; the earlier sentence only describes the brothers’ respect for their grandfather’s methods. Blanks 3 and 4 leave the same reference problem and interrupt demand or family-history details.
5. Blank 1 is therefore the coherent position. In the existing option order this is C; retain key C.
1. The quotation identifies Kwame as the speaker and states his claim about inherited techniques. Its role is to express the principle behind the brothers’ work.
2. At blank 1 it follows the introduction to their grandfather’s methods. The next sentence, “He illustrates his point”, naturally refers to Kwame and the claim he has just made.
3. The description of preparing fibres and weaving strips then supplies the example. The sequence is introduction → speaker’s claim → example → details.
4. At blank 2 the quotation would follow the example instead of introducing the point being illustrated. More importantly, “He illustrates his point” would lack the immediately preceding statement by Kwame that it is meant to develop; the earlier sentence only describes the brothers’ respect for their grandfather’s methods. Blanks 3 and 4 leave the same reference problem and interrupt demand or family-history details.
5. Blank 1 is therefore the coherent position. In the existing option order this is C; retain key C.
G Strategy shortcut
ROLE → PREDICT → READ → FIT → TEST. The quote supplies the speaker and his principle; “He illustrates his point” must then lead into the example. Test both sides of blank 1. Answer C = Blank 1.G Strategy: ROLE → PREDICT → READ → FIT → TEST. The quote supplies the speaker and his principle; “He illustrates his point” must then lead into the example. Test both sides of blank 1. Answer C = Blank 1.