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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Turning the town's lido into a skate park was a loss, argues swimmer Ada Kaur: on hot days the pool held five hundred people, and now the nearest outdoor water is an hour away. Text 2 Kaur is right about the hot days. But there were perhaps twenty of them a year, the pool stood empty for the rest, and it cost more to heat and staff than the town's three libraries. The skate park is used every day of the year by children who had nowhere else to go. Five hundred people on twenty days, or a hundred on three hundred and sixty-five.

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

  1. A. By conceding the pool's popularity on hot days while arguing that the skate park serves more people over the year.Correct
  2. B. By denying that the pool was ever busy.
  3. C. By arguing that the lido should be rebuilt.
  4. D. By claiming the skate park is unused.

Answer: A. By conceding the pool's popularity on hot days while arguing that the skate park serves more people over the year.

'Kaur is right … But' — twenty days against three hundred and sixty-five.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By denying that the pool was ever busy.
Text 2 concedes the hot days.
C. By arguing that the lido should be rebuilt.
Text 2 defends the change.
D. By claiming the skate park is unused.
Text 2 says it is used every day.

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