Craft and StructureVery hardTwo texts on why a factory closed
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The company closed the factory because the cost of labour there had become too high.
Text 2
Labour was a fifth of the factory's costs. Energy was half, and the factory's fixed-price energy contract expired in the month the closure was announced.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?
- A. By pointing to energy, a far larger cost whose price was about to change, as the likelier reason for the closure.Correct
- B. By agreeing that labour costs caused the closure.
- C. By denying that the factory closed.
- D. By arguing that labour was the factory's largest cost.
Answer: A. By pointing to energy, a far larger cost whose price was about to change, as the likelier reason for the closure.
Half the costs, and a contract that ran out.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that labour costs caused the closure.
- Text 2 points elsewhere.
- C. By denying that the factory closed.
- The closure is not disputed.
- D. By arguing that labour was the factory's largest cost.
- Text 2 says labour was a fifth.
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