Although you may think of sleeping as something that happens once during the day, for eight or nine hours at a stretch your ancestors
would not recognize the way people sleep today Before electricity
allowed homes to stay it at all hours, people went to bed soon after
the sun went down. After a sleep session of about six hours, they
would wake up for a couple of hours - writing letters, reading by
candlelight, or even visiting friends and neighbors - before going back
to sleep until down. Once artificial light became widely available in the
1900s, people began to sleep in the patterns more familiar to us today
Which answer option best evaluates how well the following summary reflects
the original passage?
People in the past slept in two stretches with some time awake in the
middle of the night, rather than getting one long block of sleep like
most people do today
A The summary is strong because it states the main idea and
important supporting details of the passage
B. The summary is weak because it only mentions one supporting
detail and does not cover the main point of the passage.
C. The summary is strong because it gets the reader's attention by
mentioning an interesting detail
D. The summary is weak because it does not accurately reflect the
meaning of the passage