According to the passage, what real - world tasks can benefit from skills…
2024
According to the passage, what real - world tasks can benefit from skills developed in dance?
Answer: B. Navigating the kitchen or walking to the bus stop — CONCEPTAn "according to the passage" question is a locating question: the answer is fixed by what the text itself states, never by what sounds plausible in…
- A.
Playing a musical instrument
- B.
Navigating the kitchen or walking to the bus stop
- C.
Solving Puzzles
- D.
Driving a car
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Correct answer: B
CONCEPT
An "according to the passage" question is a locating question: the answer is fixed by what the text itself states, never by what sounds plausible in general life. Real-world likelihood carries no weight here; only the words on the page do.
The method follows from that. Turn the question into a search phrase, find that phrase in the passage, and read the answer off the sentence that carries it.
APPLICATION
The question asks which real-world tasks benefit from skills developed in dance, so the search phrase is "real world", which occurs in the final paragraph.
That paragraph first lists the skills dance builds: learning patterns, thinking symmetrically and asymmetrically, and remembering sequences.
The next sentence states the transfer: "The effect extends beyond dance class to the real world."
The sentence immediately after names the tasks: "Tasks like navigating the kitchen or walking to the bus stop can become more attainable if they are regarded as choreography."
Reading the answer off that sentence, the real-world tasks the passage credits to dance-trained skill are navigating the kitchen and walking to the bus stop.
CROSS-CHECK
Now test each of the other listed activities against the text, by value:
Music enters the passage only as swaying to a favourite song — that is listening and moving to music, a mood effect, and the passage never turns it into performing on an instrument.
Learning patterns and remembering sequences are named as mental demands made by dance itself; the passage stops at everyday movement and never extends them to puzzle work.
Operating a vehicle is nowhere in the three paragraphs; the writer stays with unaided, on-foot movement such as crossing a kitchen or heading for a bus.
The passage therefore supports exactly what its own closing sentence says: navigating the kitchen and walking to the bus stop are the real-world tasks that become more attainable when treated as choreography.