Craft and StructureEasyAgreement on a benefit
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Learning a musical instrument improves children's concentration, argues teacher Rosa Lind, from thirty years in classrooms.
Text 2
In a study, children given weekly instrument lessons for a year improved more on attention tests than children given weekly art lessons.
Based on the texts, Lind and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?
- A. Learning an instrument is linked to better concentration in children.Correct
- B. Art lessons harm concentration.
- C. Music should replace all other subjects.
- D. Attention tests are unreliable.
Answer: A. Learning an instrument is linked to better concentration in children.
Lind's experience and the study align.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Art lessons harm concentration.
- Art was a comparison, not shown to harm.
- C. Music should replace all other subjects.
- Not proposed.
- D. Attention tests are unreliable.
- Text 2 relies on the tests.
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