ACT® · Reading — Key Ideas and Details: Close Reading
Locating Basic Facts
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- How it worksHow does a question's rare keyword act as a pin you can drop straight onto one line of text?
- Worked exampleShow me finding the year a treaty was signed in 750 words without rereading a single paragraph.
- Common mistakeWhy isn't the answer usually sitting in the exact words the question used?
- Going furtherWhat happens when the fact you need appears in three places and only one of them is the answer?
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Informational passage:
Between 1911 and 1913 the Norwegian botanist Hanna Rustad walked the coast road above Trondheim and pressed every flowering plant she met. Her herbarium, rediscovered in a school basement in 1983, holds 796 mounted sheets, of which 322 carry a date, a place and a note on the weather. It is that smaller group that has proved useful. Ecologists comparing Rustad's dated sheets with modern surveys have found that several alpine species now flower on the same slopes roughly two weeks earlier than they did in her time. The undated sheets, handsome as they are, can tell us only that a plant once grew somewhere in the district.
According to the passage, how many of Rustad's sheets carry a date, a place and a weather note?End of topic.