Question

Read the paragraph.

(1) Dogs are great pets for families because they teach children many important life lessons. (2) A dog must be walked and fed at certain times during the day. (3) When a child is in charge of these tasks, he or she learns to be dependable and disciplined. (4) Helping to take care of a dog might interfere with homework or other activities, but it’s essential for children to have some responsibility. (5) In addition, dogs are loyal, playful, loving companions.

Which is the best revision of sentence 4 to eliminate contradictory information?

Just like homework and other activities, helping to take care of a dog teaches a child about responsibility.
If a child has other things to do, such as homework and other activities, taking care of a dog could be too much.
Homework and other activities are very important, but taking care of the family dog should be the priority.
There are many ways to teach a child about responsibility besides taking care of a dog, such as homework and other activities.

Answer 1

The answer is A "Just like homework and other activities, helping to take care of a dog teaches a child about responsibility."

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

The best option here is D) There are many ways to teach a child about responsibility besides taking care of a dog, such as homework and other activities

Step-by-step explanation:

Lets use the method of elimination to justify this.

A) is a repetition of Sentence 3. So this is out of the equation.

B) communicates an idea that is contrary to the theme of the paragraph which can be summarised as "Teaching a Child to responsibility as well as manage himself and other tasks". Responsibility means doing all that you ought to do without prejudice to the other by taking each one at the right time

C) States that taking care of the family do is priority. Again this runs contrary to the main idea of the paragraph.

Having eliminated A, B and C, we are left with D.

Sentence D simply implies that a there are a number of things which teach a child how to be responsible, taking care of a dog, doing his or her homework and carrying out other activities are examples of such.

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