Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about a cause
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The collapse of the fishing fleet, historian Owen Pryce argues, was caused by the arrival of the railway, which let inland factories undercut the town's own fish-processing trade.
Text 2
The railway arrived in 1861, but the fleet had already shrunk by half in the 1850s, when the herring shoals shifted north out of reach of the town's small boats.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Pryce about ____
- A. whether the railway was the cause of the fleet's collapse.Correct
- B. whether the railway arrived in 1861.
- C. whether the town had a fishing fleet.
- D. whether herring exist.
Answer: A. whether the railway was the cause of the fleet's collapse.
Text 2 dates the decline before the railway and names another cause.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the railway arrived in 1861.
- Text 2 gives 1861 as fact.
- C. whether the town had a fishing fleet.
- Both texts assume the fleet existed.
- D. whether herring exist.
- Text 2 mentions herring as a fact.
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