Craft and StructureHardStructure of a text about lace and nets
Craft and Structure practice question
For a century the town's main export was lace. Machines made lace more cheaply than hands could, and by 1920 the trade was gone. The women who had made lace turned to mending nets for the fishing fleet, and the fleet, which had bought its nets from the city, began to buy them at home instead.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It describes the end of one trade and how its skills passed into another.Correct
- B. It compares lace with fishing nets.
- C. It argues that machines should be banned.
- D. It lists the town's exports.
Answer: A. It describes the end of one trade and how its skills passed into another.
Lace ends, nets begin.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It compares lace with fishing nets.
- No comparison of the products.
- C. It argues that machines should be banned.
- No argument.
- D. It lists the town's exports.
- Only lace is an export.
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