A detail question about a program’s primary goal tests whether you can tell its purpose from its other benefits. Read what the question asks, then find where the text says why the program began. Put those lines in a few words and keep the purpose separate from the results. When the question says according to the text, your answer must restate the lines without adding a reason. A choice can name a real benefit and still fail to explain why a program began.
Hints
- Hint 1
Look at the final sentence for the difference between benefits and the main goal.
- Hint 2
Put the reason after launched primarily in a few words. That phrase tells you why the program began.
Step-by-step
Find the reason the program began
Step 1Separate the goal from other benefits
The last sentence starts Although the report lists additional benefits, then shifts to what the authors emphasize. Does every benefit answer the question about the primary goal? No, because the question wants the main reason the program began, not all the helpful results that came from planting trees.
- Step 2
Put the stated reason in a few words
What reason do the authors give? The program was launched primarily to combat excessive heat in the densely built urban core, so its main aim was to cool that part of the city. The earlier finding that summer temperatures in the city’s downtown were 3°F cooler tells us which season the report connects to that aim.
- Step 3
Match the choice to that purpose
Which choice gives that primary goal? To create new habitats, To increase real estate values, and To make downtown streets more visually attractive name extra benefits. To lower summertime temperatures in the city matches the stated aim of fighting heat and the report’s focus on summer temperatures. Choice D.