Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on a bridge that needs constant repair
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The city should replace its oldest bridge, which needs constant repair, with a new one.
Text 2
The old bridge's repairs cost less each year than the loan for a new bridge would, and its stone arches have outlived two newer bridges that floods carried away downstream. Constant repair is not a defect; it is how a bridge lives to be three hundred.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 reframes what Text 1 calls a defect as the reason for the bridge's survival.Correct
- B. Text 2 agrees that the bridge should be replaced.
- C. Text 2 denies that the bridge needs repair.
- D. Both texts compare the bridge with newer ones.
Answer: A. Text 2 reframes what Text 1 calls a defect as the reason for the bridge's survival.
Repair as the secret of long life.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 agrees that the bridge should be replaced.
- Text 2 argues for keeping it.
- C. Text 2 denies that the bridge needs repair.
- Text 2 accepts the repairs.
- D. Both texts compare the bridge with newer ones.
- Only Text 2 does.
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