Craft and StructureHardTwo views on cave paintings and diet
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The cave paintings show that the people who made them hunted the animals depicted.
Text 2
The bones in the cave's rubbish heaps are almost all deer and rabbit, which never appear in the paintings. The painted animals, bison and horses, are nearly absent from the heaps.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?
- A. By arguing that the paintings show something other than what the people actually ate.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the painters hunted bison and horses.
- C. By denying that the cave has paintings.
- D. By claiming the rubbish heaps are recent.
Answer: A. By arguing that the paintings show something other than what the people actually ate.
Painted one thing, ate another.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the painters hunted bison and horses.
- Text 2 argues the opposite.
- C. By denying that the cave has paintings.
- Text 2 describes the paintings.
- D. By claiming the rubbish heaps are recent.
- Not claimed.
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