Question 1 • FL-1001420-AP English Language and Composition Sem 1 - Flex
Which sentence, if placed before sentence 1, would best engage the audience and provide the context necessary to understand the introduction?
Answer
A
With an annual operating budget of $320 million, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most powerful art institutions in the world.
B
The exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art was called “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin.”
C
It was meant to be one of the biggest exhibits of the season—a showcase of Egyptian art in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—but it turned into a fiasco.
D
If there has been a more embarrassing moment for an internationally renowned art museum, I don’t know it.
Explanation
Choice C introduces the exhibit and its setting, then hints that something went badly wrong. That gives readers the context needed to follow an introduction about the exhibit while creating interest in what happened. Choice D is dramatic but too vague, and A and B provide background without the same engaging setup.
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