Analyzing Informational Texts: Elements and Structures
Question 9 • TX-English III
Read the passage from "The Spanish Civil War.”Four months later the morale of the increasingly hard-pressed republicans received another major blow when Britain, France, and Italy acknowledged Hitler's preeminence in Europe by accepting his diktat at Munich that deprived Czechoslovakia of its borderland defenses. The Nazi triumph was followed by Franco's massive invasion of the province of Catalonia and the capture of Barcelona, its major city. In March of the following year, a nationalist offensive seized in two days Madrid, and the last loyalist forces surrendered on April 1.
Answer
A
to describe solutions for ending the Spanish Civil War
B
to explain a cause-effect relationship of events in the Spanish Civil War
C
to describe a sequence of events during the Spanish Civil War
D
to explain similarities and differences in the Spanish Civil War
Explanation
The passage recounts events in chronological order: the Munich agreement weakened the republicans, Franco invaded Catalonia and captured Barcelona, and nationalist forces later seized Madrid before the loyalists surrendered. This makes the main purpose to describe a sequence of events during the Spanish Civil War. Although it mentions a cause and its effect, the passage mainly traces several events over time.
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