Craft and StructureEasyTwo views on keeping cats in at night
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Cats should be kept indoors at night. They are skilled hunters, and songbirds are among their most frequent victims.
Text 2
Cats do hunt birds, but most of the birds they take are caught by day. Keeping a cat in at night mainly spares mice, voles, and other small mammals that are active after dark.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the recommendation in Text 1?
- A. By agreeing that cats hunt birds but questioning whether keeping them in at night protects birds in particular.Correct
- B. By denying that cats hunt birds at all.
- C. By arguing that cats should be allowed out at night.
- D. By claiming that small mammals are more important than birds.
Answer: A. By agreeing that cats hunt birds but questioning whether keeping them in at night protects birds in particular.
Text 2 accepts the hunting but says night-time confinement protects mammals, not birds.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that cats hunt birds at all.
- Text 2 says cats do hunt birds.
- C. By arguing that cats should be allowed out at night.
- Text 2 makes no recommendation.
- D. By claiming that small mammals are more important than birds.
- Text 2 ranks nothing.
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