Craft and StructureHardAuthor of one text responding to a proposal in another
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town should replace its ageing library with a smaller building, argues councillor Mark Ilie, because borrowing has fallen by a third in a decade.
Text 2
Borrowing has fallen, but visits have risen: the library is now used mainly for study, job searching, and children's sessions, none of which is measured by loans. A smaller building would cut the space those uses need.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Ilie's proposal?
- A. By arguing that loans are the wrong measure of the library's use and that a smaller building would harm its main uses.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the library should be smaller.
- C. By denying that borrowing has fallen.
- D. By proposing that the library close.
Answer: A. By arguing that loans are the wrong measure of the library's use and that a smaller building would harm its main uses.
'Borrowing has fallen, but visits have risen': loans miss the real use.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the library should be smaller.
- Text 2 opposes shrinking it.
- C. By denying that borrowing has fallen.
- Text 2 accepts the fall in borrowing.
- D. By proposing that the library close.
- Not proposed.
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