Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors weighing the same trade-off
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The museum's decision to charge for entry, historian Ana Reis argues, betrays its founding promise to be open to all, and attendance has fallen by a third since the charge began.
Text 2
Attendance did fall, but the museum was months from closing its doors entirely. Charging kept it open, funded free days each month, and paid for a schools programme that now brings in more children than visited free in the old days. A promise kept by a museum that no longer exists is not much of a promise.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Reis's argument?
- A. By conceding the fall in attendance but arguing that charging preserved the museum and served its founding aim in other ways.Correct
- B. By denying that attendance fell.
- C. By arguing that the museum should close.
- D. By claiming that the founding promise never existed.
Answer: A. By conceding the fall in attendance but arguing that charging preserved the museum and served its founding aim in other ways.
'Attendance did fall, but' — survival, free days, and more children than before.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that attendance fell.
- Text 2 concedes the fall.
- C. By arguing that the museum should close.
- Text 2 is glad it stayed open.
- D. By claiming that the founding promise never existed.
- Text 2 treats the promise as real but argues about how to keep it.
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