Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on why a town's population grew
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town grew in the 1990s because the new motorway junction made it an easy commute to the city.
Text 2
The junction opened in 1994, but the town's growth began in 1990 and was fastest in the years before the road existed. What changed in 1990 was the opening of the hospital, which brought two thousand jobs and the families that came with them.
Which choice best describes how Text 2 challenges Text 1?
- A. It uses the timing of the growth to rule out the motorway as the cause and proposes the hospital instead.Correct
- B. It denies that the town grew in the 1990s.
- C. It argues that the motorway junction was never built.
- D. It agrees that commuting explains the growth.
Answer: A. It uses the timing of the growth to rule out the motorway as the cause and proposes the hospital instead.
Growth before the road; the hospital in 1990.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It denies that the town grew in the 1990s.
- Text 2 accepts the growth.
- C. It argues that the motorway junction was never built.
- Text 2 gives the junction's opening date.
- D. It agrees that commuting explains the growth.
- Text 2 rejects the commuting explanation.
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