Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about what caused a change
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The rise in the lake's water level, hydrologist Ben Achebe argues, is due to the wetter winters of the past decade.
Text 2
Winter rainfall has risen, but not enough to explain a two-metre rise. What changed is the outlet: silt has blocked the channel that used to drain the lake, and the water has nowhere to go.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Achebe about ____
- A. the main cause of the lake's rise.Correct
- B. whether the lake has risen.
- C. whether winters have been wetter.
- D. whether the lake has an outlet.
Answer: A. the main cause of the lake's rise.
Achebe blames rain; Text 2 blames the blocked outlet.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the lake has risen.
- Both accept the rise.
- C. whether winters have been wetter.
- Text 2 agrees rainfall has risen.
- D. whether the lake has an outlet.
- Text 2 discusses the outlet as real.
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