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Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 135 · Section 3 · Question 2

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Detail
The one idea it tests
A detail question asks what the passage actually says, so the proof must sit in the text.
The basic logic
The stem asks for a reason behind a choice the writers made. Hunt for the sentence that links form to a cause, then match it.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “parallels”
  • “to express”
  • “because”

Playground logic

In the cookbook passage, the cooks' mixed shape has a stated cause: their dishes are blends with many roots. That sentence is the proof.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Cookbook That Broke the Rules →

Step 3 · Try the model question

According to the kid passage, what helped lead the cooks to give their cards a mixed shape?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 135, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Underline the stem's key idea: a reason for a structural choice. Go back to the sentence where the author links form to content. Read it slowly, then pick the choice that restates that link. If a choice needs a fact you cannot point to, it is a Stranger. Proof first, then the letter.