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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Converting the old library into flats was a betrayal of the town, argues teacher Mira Sandoval: the reading room where three generations learned to read is now someone's kitchen. Text 2 Sandoval is right about the reading room, and I miss it too. But the library had eleven visitors a day by the end, the roof was failing, and the sale paid for a new library in the school that is open to the town in the evenings and sees two hundred people a day. The room is gone; the reading is not.

Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Sandoval's argument?

  1. A. By sharing her sense of loss while arguing that the sale funded a library that serves far more people.Correct
  2. B. By denying that the reading room existed.
  3. C. By arguing that the flats should be demolished.
  4. D. By claiming that no one used the old library.

Answer: A. By sharing her sense of loss while arguing that the sale funded a library that serves far more people.

'Sandoval is right … But' — eleven visitors, a failing roof, and two hundred a day now.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that the reading room existed.
Text 2 misses the room too.
C. By arguing that the flats should be demolished.
Text 2 defends the sale.
D. By claiming that no one used the old library.
Text 2 says eleven a day, not none.

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