Craft and StructureHardStructure: a decision explained by weighing two costs
Craft and Structure practice question
The library could keep its Sunday opening, which costs $40,000 a year and serves a few hundred visitors, or use the money to buy books, which would add about two thousand titles a year. It chose Sunday opening. Its reasoning was that the Sunday visitors were mostly people who worked six days a week, for whom the library was open at no other time, while the two thousand titles would mostly go to readers who already had plenty.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It presents two options with their costs and benefits, states the choice made, and explains the reasoning behind it.Correct
- B. It argues that libraries should buy more books.
- C. It lists the library's opening hours.
- D. It describes the visitors who come on Sundays.
Answer: A. It presents two options with their costs and benefits, states the choice made, and explains the reasoning behind it.
Options, choice, reason.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that libraries should buy more books.
- The library chose the opposite.
- C. It lists the library's opening hours.
- Only Sunday is mentioned.
- D. It describes the visitors who come on Sundays.
- The visitors are part of the reasoning, not the subject.
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