TOEFL Rhetorical Structure

Hello sir, I’m preparing for TOEFL exam. Will you please provide me phrases those are used to reading rhetorical structure?

[shikha]

In TOEFL exam rhetorical structure related type of question requires you to understand why the author has included pieces of information. The answer is not directly stated in the reading passage.

You need to understand the main point of the paragraph and how the referenced information is related to the main point of the paragraph.

In this type of question, will see answers that contain phrases:

To support
To explain
To compare
To question
To show
To account for
To illustrate
To refute
To note
To criticize
To contrast

Question : In paragraph 4, what was the author's purpose of including a quote that the belief that the complexity of the human eye could have been formed by natural selection seems highly unlikely?

A. To provide evidence that irreducibly complex systems exists

B. The prove that the natural selection contradicts the basis of Darwin

C. The support that the natural selection contributes to the basis of Darwin

D. The support the claim that natural selection is just a theory and difficult to prove

The answer is D.





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