The phrase "a basic kind of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a simple or fundamental type of something, often to categorize or clarify a concept.
Example: "Yoga is a basic kind of exercise that promotes flexibility and relaxation."
Alternatives: "a fundamental type of" or "a simple form of".
Mimi wasn't the sort of "gal" George Paxton ever thought he'd end up marrying -- she was like a high-strung racehorse, and George was a basic kind of guy -- but after two years of feeling like a publicly traded stock, Mimi was, as he put it, "a breath of fresh air".
Social acts are a basic kind of intentional act.
Interestingly, in "Trust and Terror," Karen Jones objects to "three-place analyses" of trust for failing to account for a basic kind of trust that terror often undermines: what Jones calls "basal trust" (2004).
A cyclist is explicitly presented as a human being (or creature of some other animal species) cycling: there is no temptation to think of a cyclist as a basic kind of thing in its own right.
On Gibbard's original account, norm-acceptance is a basic kind of non-cognitive state, an evolutionary adaptation for linguistically achieved coordination that is not analyzable in terms of other attitudes (1990: ch. 4).
Another new title is Just Dance Now, which is a mobile version of the Kinect-based dancing game, which uses your mobile device's motion sensors to provide a basic kind of action tracking that translates your movements into the game.
Then I went about pitch shifting it into a really basic kind of melody in the interest of creating a sort of repeating drone.
Their existence strongly confirms the validity of the electroweak theory, proposed in the 1970s, that the weak force and electromagnetism are different manifestations of a single basic kind of physical interaction.
But it was ultimately designed to prevent a very basic kind of injustice: ie people being convicted on the basis of testimony that had not been subject to cross-examination.
A second basic kind of update would be extension of the set of referents: we extend our storage capacity.
Maybe I'm just a below basic kind of guy, but I am pretty sure that the correct answer is not among the four choices.
