Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about a reason
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town's old cinema closed, argues film historian Bea Solano, because television kept audiences at home.
Text 2
The cinema's audiences held up well into the 1970s, long after television arrived. What closed it was the 1979 fire, after which the owner could not afford the rebuilding the council required.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Solano about ____
- A. why the cinema closed.Correct
- B. whether the cinema closed.
- C. whether television existed in the town.
- D. whether the cinema had audiences.
Answer: A. why the cinema closed.
Solano blames television; Text 2 blames the fire and its cost.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the cinema closed.
- Both accept the closure.
- C. whether television existed in the town.
- Text 2 says television arrived.
- D. whether the cinema had audiences.
- Text 2 says audiences held up.
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