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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Homework should be abolished in primary schools; young children learn more from play and sleep than from worksheets. Text 2 Ten minutes of reading at home each evening is the one form of homework that shows clear benefits for young children, and it should be kept even if worksheets go.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?

  1. A. Text 2 agrees that most homework can go but makes an exception for one kind.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 argues that young children need more worksheets.
  3. C. Text 2 rejects Text 1 entirely.
  4. D. Text 2 agrees that all homework should be abolished.

Answer: A. Text 2 agrees that most homework can go but makes an exception for one kind.

Worksheets can go; reading stays.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 argues that young children need more worksheets.
Worksheets are let go.
C. Text 2 rejects Text 1 entirely.
Text 2 accepts most of Text 1.
D. Text 2 agrees that all homework should be abolished.
Text 2 keeps reading.

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