Craft and StructureVery hardTwo texts on asthma after a factory closed
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town's air is cleaner since the factory closed: hospital admissions for asthma have fallen by a quarter.
Text 2
Asthma admissions fell by a quarter across the whole region over the same period, including in towns that never had a factory.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely regard the evidence in Text 1?
- A. As showing nothing about the factory, since the same fall happened where there was no factory to close.Correct
- B. As proof that the factory caused asthma.
- C. As mistaken about the size of the fall.
- D. As evidence that the region's other towns also closed factories.
Answer: A. As showing nothing about the factory, since the same fall happened where there was no factory to close.
The same fall everywhere points to a regional cause.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. As proof that the factory caused asthma.
- Text 2 questions the link.
- C. As mistaken about the size of the fall.
- The size is not disputed.
- D. As evidence that the region's other towns also closed factories.
- Text 2 says the other towns never had a factory.
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