Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about a cause
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The river's kingfishers vanished, argues angler Tom Reid, because otters returned and ate the small fish the birds depend on.
Text 2
The otters came back in 2010; the kingfishers were gone by 2005. The cause was the hard winter of 2004, when the river froze for three weeks and the birds could not feed.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Reid about ____
- A. why the kingfishers disappeared.Correct
- B. whether the kingfishers disappeared.
- C. whether otters returned to the river.
- D. whether kingfishers eat fish.
Answer: A. why the kingfishers disappeared.
Reid blames otters; Text 2 blames the 2004 freeze and notes the dates don't fit.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the kingfishers disappeared.
- Both accept the disappearance.
- C. whether otters returned to the river.
- Text 2 says the otters came back in 2010.
- D. whether kingfishers eat fish.
- Not disputed.
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