Craft and StructureHardOne text extending another's claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Small libraries survive by lending things other than books, argues librarian Joe Pratt: tools, games, and seed packets bring in people who would not come for a novel.
Text 2
Pratt is right, and the pattern goes further. At one branch, half the people who first came to borrow a drill later took out a library card and borrowed a book. The tools are not a substitute for reading; they are a door to it.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
- A. Text 2 agrees with Text 1 and adds that non-book lending leads people on to borrowing books.Correct
- B. Text 2 argues that libraries should lend only books.
- C. Text 2 denies that tools bring in new people.
- D. Text 2 describes a library that has closed.
Answer: A. Text 2 agrees with Text 1 and adds that non-book lending leads people on to borrowing books.
'Pratt is right, and the pattern goes further.'
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 argues that libraries should lend only books.
- The reverse.
- C. Text 2 denies that tools bring in new people.
- Text 2 gives the drill borrowers as evidence.
- D. Text 2 describes a library that has closed.
- Not described.
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