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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The 1969 moon landing is remembered as a triumph of engineering: a machine of six million parts, built by hundreds of firms, that worked. Text 2 The engineering was extraordinary, but what carried the landing was arithmetic done by hand. The trajectories were computed by rooms of people with pencils, checking one another's work, years before a computer could be trusted with it.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?

  1. A. Text 2 accepts Text 1's point but shifts the credit toward the people who did the calculations.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 denies that the landing was an achievement.
  3. C. Text 2 argues that computers made the landing possible.
  4. D. Text 2 claims the landing was faked.

Answer: A. Text 2 accepts Text 1's point but shifts the credit toward the people who did the calculations.

'The engineering was extraordinary, but' — then the calculators with pencils.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 denies that the landing was an achievement.
Text 2 calls the engineering extraordinary.
C. Text 2 argues that computers made the landing possible.
Text 2 says the arithmetic was done years before a computer could be trusted with it.
D. Text 2 claims the landing was faked.
Nothing of the kind.

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