Craft and StructureVery hardTwo authors weighing a change
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Selling the town hall's organ was a philistine act, argues organist Clara Boyd: it was the finest instrument for fifty miles and had been played at every civic occasion since 1902.
Text 2
Boyd is right about the organ's quality, and I have played it. But it had not been played at a civic occasion since 1985, its restoration would have cost more than the hall's roof, and the buyer is a cathedral where it is now heard by thousands each week instead of by no one. The town lost an ornament; the organ gained an audience.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Boyd's argument?
- A. By conceding the organ's quality while arguing that the sale gave an unused instrument a real audience and spared the town a cost it could not afford.Correct
- B. By denying that the organ was any good.
- C. By arguing that the organ should be bought back.
- D. By claiming the organ is still in the town hall.
Answer: A. By conceding the organ's quality while arguing that the sale gave an unused instrument a real audience and spared the town a cost it could not afford.
'Boyd is right … But' — unplayed since 1985, cost, and a cathedral audience.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the organ was any good.
- Text 2 has played it and concedes its quality.
- C. By arguing that the organ should be bought back.
- Text 2 defends the sale.
- D. By claiming the organ is still in the town hall.
- Text 2 says it is in a cathedral.
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