NB ELPA Reading Practice Questions - New Brunswick English Language Proficiency Assessment - Reading (ELPA-R), Anglophone Sector Exam

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Read the excerpt from a newspaper editorial. "Council will vote Tuesday on whether to pave the Riverside Trail. Supporters call it progress. But progress that costs us the last unpaved path along the river — where children learn to ride bikes and herons still hunt at dusk — is a bargain no town should make. Council should vote no." The author's primary purpose in this excerpt is to

inform readers about the date of a council vote describe the wildlife found along the river persuade readers and council to reject the paving plan entertain readers with a story about children on bikes

Correct Answer:

persuade readers and council to reject the paving plan

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