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Craft and StructureMediumTwo views on rewilding a hillside

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Letting the hillside return to scrub and woodland will bring back birds and insects that the sheep drove out. Text 2 The birds may return, but the hillside's stone walls and the skills of the shepherds who built them will be lost under the scrub, and they are part of the landscape too.

How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?

  1. A. By accepting the gain for wildlife but pointing to a loss of human heritage that Text 1 ignores.Correct
  2. B. By denying that birds will return.
  3. C. By agreeing that the sheep should be removed.
  4. D. By arguing that scrub is bad for insects.

Answer: A. By accepting the gain for wildlife but pointing to a loss of human heritage that Text 1 ignores.

Birds gained, walls and skills lost.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that birds will return.
Text 2 allows the birds may return.
C. By agreeing that the sheep should be removed.
Text 2 values the shepherds.
D. By arguing that scrub is bad for insects.
No such claim.

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