Craft and StructureHardTwo views on a river's flood defences
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The new flood wall has saved the town; the river rose higher this winter than in the flood of 2015, and not a house was wet.
Text 2
The wall kept the town dry, but the water it held back went somewhere: the villages downstream, which had never flooded before, were under a metre of water. The problem has been moved, not solved.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?
- A. By accepting that the wall protected the town but arguing that it shifted the flooding onto villages downstream.Correct
- B. By denying that the town stayed dry.
- C. By arguing that the wall should be made higher.
- D. By claiming that the river did not rise this winter.
Answer: A. By accepting that the wall protected the town but arguing that it shifted the flooding onto villages downstream.
Dry town, drowned villages.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the town stayed dry.
- Text 2 accepts the town stayed dry.
- C. By arguing that the wall should be made higher.
- A higher wall would worsen the downstream flooding.
- D. By claiming that the river did not rise this winter.
- The rise is not disputed.
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