Craft and StructureVery hardWeighing two positions on a policy
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Free admission to the city's museums, cultural economist Sara Okonjo argues, has been a failure: visitor numbers doubled but the extra visitors are overwhelmingly tourists, and local attendance has barely moved.
Text 2
Okonjo is right about who came. But the tourists' spending in the surrounding cafés and shops has funded the museums' new education programme, which now reaches every primary school in the city — more local children than paid admission ever brought through the doors.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Okonjo's argument?
- A. By accepting her account of who visits but arguing that the policy has benefited locals indirectly.Correct
- B. By denying that tourists visit the museums.
- C. By arguing that admission charges should be restored.
- D. By claiming that local attendance doubled.
Answer: A. By accepting her account of who visits but arguing that the policy has benefited locals indirectly.
'Okonjo is right about who came. But' — tourist spending funds a programme reaching local children.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that tourists visit the museums.
- Text 2 accepts that tourists came.
- C. By arguing that admission charges should be restored.
- Not proposed.
- D. By claiming that local attendance doubled.
- Text 2 does not dispute that local attendance barely moved.
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