Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of the final sentence in a text about a bridge's designer
Craft and Structure practice question
The bridge's designer was asked, late in life, whether he had ever doubted that it would stand. He said he had doubted it every day for the two years it took to build and not once since the morning it opened. His biographer treats the remark as modesty. It reads, in the notebooks, as a plain description of what those two years were like.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?
- A. It sets against the biographer's interpretation a reading of the remark as literal, supported by another source.Correct
- B. It summarises the biographer's view.
- C. It describes how the bridge was built.
- D. It praises the designer's modesty.
Answer: A. It sets against the biographer's interpretation a reading of the remark as literal, supported by another source.
The notebooks say the doubt was real.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It summarises the biographer's view.
- It disagrees with the biographer.
- C. It describes how the bridge was built.
- No construction details.
- D. It praises the designer's modesty.
- It denies that the remark was modesty.
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