Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure: reframing a question
Craft and Structure practice question
Ask why the bridge fell and you will get an engineering answer: a cracked pin, a missed inspection. Ask instead why the crack was not found, and the answer turns from metal to money — an inspection budget cut in half two years before. The first question explains the collapse; the second explains why it was allowed to happen.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. It contrasts two questions about the same event and shows that each leads to a different kind of explanation.Correct
- B. It lists the causes of bridge collapses in general.
- C. It argues that engineers were not to blame.
- D. It describes the inspection process step by step.
Answer: A. It contrasts two questions about the same event and shows that each leads to a different kind of explanation.
Two questions, two answers, and a final sentence distinguishing what each explains.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It lists the causes of bridge collapses in general.
- One bridge, not collapses in general.
- C. It argues that engineers were not to blame.
- Blame is not assigned; explanations are compared.
- D. It describes the inspection process step by step.
- The process is not described.
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