Craft and StructureEasy–MediumTwo views on school uniforms
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
School uniforms should be required. They remove the daily pressure on students to dress fashionably, and they make it harder to tell richer students from poorer ones.
Text 2
Uniforms do reduce pressure over clothes, but they are expensive, and families who struggle to buy them are singled out just as surely as families who cannot afford fashionable clothes.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 accepts one benefit claimed in Text 1 but disputes another.Correct
- B. Text 2 rejects every claim made in Text 1.
- C. Text 2 argues that uniforms should be more fashionable.
- D. Text 2 agrees fully with Text 1.
Answer: A. Text 2 accepts one benefit claimed in Text 1 but disputes another.
Pressure conceded, equality disputed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 rejects every claim made in Text 1.
- Text 2 concedes the pressure point.
- C. Text 2 argues that uniforms should be more fashionable.
- No such argument.
- D. Text 2 agrees fully with Text 1.
- Text 2 disputes the equality claim.
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