Craft and StructureHardTwo views on a city's tallest buildings
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A city's tallest buildings should be its public ones, so that the skyline expresses shared values.
Text 2
Public buildings can express shared values at any height. A low library that everyone can enter says more about a city than a tower most people only see from a distance.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 rejects the link Text 1 draws between height and public meaning.Correct
- B. Text 2 argues that cities should have no towers.
- C. Both texts say libraries should be tall.
- D. Text 1 discusses libraries.
Answer: A. Text 2 rejects the link Text 1 draws between height and public meaning.
Meaning at any height.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 argues that cities should have no towers.
- Not argued.
- C. Both texts say libraries should be tall.
- Text 2 praises a low library.
- D. Text 1 discusses libraries.
- Only Text 2 does.
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