hard · Enhanced ACT english
Every June, my cousins and I hike into the hollow behind my grandmother's farmhouse to watch the fireflies. For a few weeks each summer, thousands of them blink in near-perfect unison, the whole hillside flashing like a slow heartbeat. Scientists say the synchrony helps females pick out males of their own species, but standing in that pulsing dark, I rarely think about chemistry or courtship. I think about my grandfather, who first led us down that trail, and about how some rhythms outlast the people who taught them to us.
Suppose the writer's goal had been to write an essay explaining the biological mechanism by which fireflies produce light. Would this essay accomplish that goal?
- Yes, because it reports that scientists have explained why the fireflies flash in unison.
- Yes, because it describes the appearance of the fireflies' light in vivid sensory detail.
- No, because it is a personal reflection that touches on firefly science only in passing.
- No, because it centers on a firefly species that does not actually produce its own light.
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