Craft and StructureEasy–MediumAgreement on a practical point
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Children learn to swim faster in warm water, argues instructor Mel Okafor, because they are not fighting the cold.
Text 2
A pool that raised its water temperature by two degrees for beginners' classes recorded a fall in the average number of lessons needed to swim a width.
Based on the texts, Okafor and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?
- A. Warmer water helps beginners learn to swim more quickly.Correct
- B. Children should not swim in the sea.
- C. Swimming widths is harder than lengths.
- D. Pools are too expensive to heat.
Answer: A. Warmer water helps beginners learn to swim more quickly.
Argument and pool record agree.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Children should not swim in the sea.
- Not proposed.
- C. Swimming widths is harder than lengths.
- Not discussed.
- D. Pools are too expensive to heat.
- Not discussed.
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