Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on an ancient road's builders
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The straightness of the road proves that the Romans built it; no earlier people in the region laid out roads with surveying instruments.
Text 2
The road is straight for eleven miles because it follows a ridge that is itself straight, and a ridge path needs no instruments. The pottery found beneath its surface is three centuries older than the Roman arrival.
Which choice best describes how Text 2 challenges Text 1?
- A. It offers a natural explanation for the road's straightness and cites dated evidence that the road predates the Romans.Correct
- B. It denies that the road is straight.
- C. It agrees that only the Romans used surveying instruments.
- D. It argues that the Romans never reached the region.
Answer: A. It offers a natural explanation for the road's straightness and cites dated evidence that the road predates the Romans.
A straight ridge, and older pottery.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It denies that the road is straight.
- Text 2 accepts the straightness.
- C. It agrees that only the Romans used surveying instruments.
- Instruments are not needed on a ridge.
- D. It argues that the Romans never reached the region.
- The Roman arrival is mentioned as a fact.
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