What is the significance of identifying 'causes' and 'effects' in a reading passage?

• A. It helps memorize dates
• B. It helps answer questions about why events happened and what results occurred
• C. It helps identify vocabulary origins
• D. It helps check spelling errors

Answer: (B)

Grasping causes and effects in a reading passage is about understanding how one event leads to another. When you can spot the reasons something happened (causes) and the outcomes that followed (effects), you can trace the flow of the ideas, see connections between details, and grasp the overall meaning more clearly. This skill helps you answer questions that ask why a thing happened and what results occurred, because you’re mapping the sequence of events and their explanations in the text.

Other options miss the point: memorizing dates deals with keeping factual chronology in mind, identifying vocabulary origins is about word history, and checking spelling errors is an editing task.