The next thing you will have to do is identify a specified number of reasons in the passage, probably five.

As for the previous question, your answers here should be direct quotations from the text; paraphrases risk losing marks. For long quotes, it’s perfectly acceptable to use an ellipsis, e.g. “Due to the heat… put a frozen turkey under her hat,” as long as the quote begins and ends in the right place.

You can expect to find roughly one reason per paragraph. Within each paragraph, there is likely to be the reason itself, along with background information or evidence that the reason is true. Categorising each phrase as one of these three things may help you to isolate the reason, filtering out the rest of the text.