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When Halvorsen College opened its new campus, the planners laid out neat brick walkways in straight lines and squares. Within a year, the lawns between them were crossed by bare dirt trails, worn by people cutting the shortest way from the dormitories to the dining hall. The grounds crew first tried to stop the shortcuts. They put up low fences, then signs, then rows of hedges. Each time, a new trail appeared a few yards away, and the hedges were trampled into gaps. In the end, the college decided to follow the trails instead of fighting them. Planner Anjali Varghese mapped every worn path on campus and recommended paving the most heavily used ones. Five of the dirt trails became brick walkways the next summer, and the lawns around them grew back. Varghese argues that the trails were a kind of survey: they showed where people actually needed to go, which the original plan had only guessed. Which choice best states the main idea of the third paragraph?

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When Halvorsen College opened its new campus, the planners laid out neat brick walkways in straight lines and squares. Within a year, the lawns between them were crossed by bare dirt trails, worn by people cutting the shortest way from the dormitories to the dining hall. The grounds crew first tried to stop the shortcuts. They put up low fences, then signs, then rows of hedges. Each time, a new trail appeared a few yards away, and the hedges were trampled into gaps. In the end, the college decided to follow the trails instead of fighting them. Planner Anjali Varghese mapped every worn path on campus and recommended paving the most heavily used ones. Five of the dirt trails became brick walkways the next summer, and the lawns around them grew back. Varghese argues that the trails were a kind of survey: they showed where people actually needed to go, which the original plan had only guessed. Which choice best states the main idea of the third paragraph?

AThe grounds crew used fences, signs and hedges to keep people off the lawns.BThe college paved the worn trails, treating them as a record of where people needed to go.CBrick walkways laid in straight lines cost less to build than curving ones.DThe lawns around the new walkways grew back once the dirt trails were paved.

Where A comes from

This is about blocking the shortcuts.

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Where C comes from

This is a claim about cost.

Where D comes from

This is in the paragraph, but as one result.

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Central Ideas, Themes, and Summaries

Relationships

Craft and Structure

Word Meanings and Word Choice

Text Structure

Purpose and Point of View

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Arguments

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