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Craft and StructureMediumTwo views on a museum's audio guide

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The new audio guide is excellent: it explains every painting clearly and visitors leave knowing far more. Text 2 Visitors with the audio guide spend their time looking at the floor while they listen, and the gallery has become silent; the paintings are explained, but no longer looked at or talked about.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?

  1. A. Text 2 accepts that the guide informs visitors but argues that it changes how they behave in the gallery for the worse.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 says the guide's explanations are wrong.
  3. C. Text 2 agrees that the guide is excellent.
  4. D. Text 2 argues that visitors should talk more loudly.

Answer: A. Text 2 accepts that the guide informs visitors but argues that it changes how they behave in the gallery for the worse.

Informed, but not looking.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 says the guide's explanations are wrong.
Accuracy is not disputed.
C. Text 2 agrees that the guide is excellent.
Text 2 sees a cost.
D. Text 2 argues that visitors should talk more loudly.
Silence is a symptom, not the prescription.

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