Craft and StructureVery hardReconciling two texts on a disputed cause
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Historian Mei Tanaka attributes the collapse of the island's fishing economy in the 1960s to overfishing by the islanders themselves, citing catch records that peaked in 1958 and then fell steadily.
Text 2
The catch records tell part of the story, but ocean temperature logs from the same decade show a warming of two degrees, enough to push the main food fish north out of the islanders' range. The islanders may have fished hard, but the fish were also leaving.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Tanaka's argument?
- A. By accepting the catch records as evidence but adding a second cause that the records alone cannot reveal.Correct
- B. By arguing that the catch records were falsified.
- C. By denying that the fishing economy collapsed.
- D. By claiming the islanders did not fish at all.
Answer: A. By accepting the catch records as evidence but adding a second cause that the records alone cannot reveal.
'Tell part of the story, but' — then temperature and migration as a further cause.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By arguing that the catch records were falsified.
- Text 2 uses the records rather than doubting them.
- C. By denying that the fishing economy collapsed.
- Both texts take the collapse as given.
- D. By claiming the islanders did not fish at all.
- Text 2 says the islanders 'may have fished hard'.
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