Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors weighing a change
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Moving the market from Saturday to Sunday has ruined it, argues stallholder Mei Chen: the Saturday crowd of shoppers has gone, and Sunday brings only browsers.
Text 2
Chen is right that Sunday shoppers spend less each. But there are twice as many of them, the town's Sunday buses now run for the market, and the cafés around the square, dead on Sundays for years, are full. Fewer bags per visitor; more visitors, and a square with a Sunday at last.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Chen's argument?
- A. By conceding that Sunday visitors spend less each while arguing that the move has brought more people and revived the square.Correct
- B. By denying that the Saturday crowd has gone.
- C. By arguing that the market should return to Saturday.
- D. By claiming that Sunday visitors spend more each.
Answer: A. By conceding that Sunday visitors spend less each while arguing that the move has brought more people and revived the square.
'Chen is right … But' — twice as many visitors, buses, full cafés.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the Saturday crowd has gone.
- Text 2 concedes the Saturday shoppers' spending is gone.
- C. By arguing that the market should return to Saturday.
- Text 2 defends the move.
- D. By claiming that Sunday visitors spend more each.
- Text 2 concedes they spend less each.
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