Craft and StructureEasy–MediumShared assumption in two texts
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The school should start an hour later. Teenagers' body clocks run late, and an 8 a.m. start puts the first lesson in the middle of their biological night.
Text 2
A later start would help, but buses, parents' work schedules, and after-school sport all depend on the current timetable. The change is worth making only if those can be moved too.
Based on the texts, the authors of Text 1 and Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?
- A. A later school start would benefit teenage students.Correct
- B. The current start time should be kept.
- C. Bus schedules are impossible to change.
- D. Teenagers should go to bed earlier.
Answer: A. A later school start would benefit teenage students.
Text 1 argues for it; Text 2 says 'a later start would help'.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The current start time should be kept.
- Neither text prefers the current time.
- C. Bus schedules are impossible to change.
- Text 2 calls them a dependency to move, not an impossibility.
- D. Teenagers should go to bed earlier.
- Neither text proposes earlier bedtimes.
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