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Problem

Artist Marilyn Dingle’s intricate, coiled baskets are____sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Following a Gullah technique that originated in West Africa, Dingle skillfully winds a thin palm frond around a bunch of sweetgrass with the help of a “sewing bone” to create the basket’s signature look that no factory can reproduce.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Clue

The details and facts help to draw the main idea of the passage.

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Sumup

Please summarize Problem, Hint, Clue

Choices

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Choice-A

Choice A is incorrect because the text describes how Dingle uses sweetgrass and palmetto palm to create her baskets, not how her baskets are “indicated by,” or signified by, sweetgrass and palmetto palm.

Wrong indicated by

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Choice-B

Choice B is the correct answer because it most logically completes the text’s discussion of Marilyn Dingle’s baskets. In this context, to say that Dingle’s baskets are “handmade from” particular plants means that Dingle creates baskets herself using those plants but without using machines. The text says that Dingle “skillfully winds” parts of palmetto palm plants around sweetgrass plants to make baskets with an appearance that “no factory can reproduce.” This context suggests that Dingle’s baskets are handmade from sweetgrass and palmetto palm.

Correct handmade from

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Choice-C

Choice C is incorrect. Although Dingle’sbaskets are described as being made using sweetgrass and palm, there’s nothing in the text to suggest that the baskets are “represented by,” or exemplified or portrayed by, sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Instead, the focus of the text is on Dingle’s use of sweetgrass and palmetto palm and the impossibility of replicating the appearance of her baskets using machines.

Wrong represented by

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Choice-D

Choice D is incorrect because the text does not suggest that Dingle’s baskets are “collected with” or brought together in a group with sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Instead, the text describes how Dingle uses those plants to make her baskets.

Wrong collected with

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Step

The choice that logically completes the text - handmade from

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Answer

Option

B

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Sumup

Please summarize choices