Craft and StructureEasyAgreement on a benefit
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Growing herbs on a kitchen windowsill gives cooks fresh flavour all year, argues chef Lena Ruiz.
Text 2
A survey of home cooks found that those with windowsill herbs used fresh herbs in cooking four times as often as those who bought them from shops.
Based on the texts, Ruiz and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?
- A. Having herbs growing at home makes cooks more likely to use fresh herbs.Correct
- B. Shop-bought herbs are better than home-grown.
- C. Herbs should not be grown indoors.
- D. Cooks should avoid fresh herbs.
Answer: A. Having herbs growing at home makes cooks more likely to use fresh herbs.
Ruiz's claim and the survey's fourfold figure point the same way.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Shop-bought herbs are better than home-grown.
- Neither text prefers shop herbs.
- C. Herbs should not be grown indoors.
- Both favour windowsill herbs.
- D. Cooks should avoid fresh herbs.
- Both favour fresh herbs.
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