Craft and StructureEasy–MediumTwo views on a cookbook
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The new cookbook is beautifully photographed, but its recipes assume a professional kitchen: several call for equipment few home cooks own.
Text 2
The recipes can be made at home with a little improvisation. I cooked six of them in a small flat with two pans and a hand blender, and all six worked.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the criticism in Text 1?
- A. By arguing that the recipes work at home even without the equipment they name.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the recipes need a professional kitchen.
- C. By criticising the photographs.
- D. By claiming that the recipes do not work at all.
Answer: A. By arguing that the recipes work at home even without the equipment they name.
Six recipes, two pans, all worked.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the recipes need a professional kitchen.
- Text 2 disputes this.
- C. By criticising the photographs.
- Photographs are not discussed in Text 2.
- D. By claiming that the recipes do not work at all.
- They all worked.
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