Craft and StructureEasy–MediumDisagreement about a recommendation
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Walkers should carry a paper map, argues rescue volunteer Sam Poe, because phones fail in the cold and out of signal.
Text 2
A phone with the map downloaded needs no signal, and a spare battery pack solves the cold. Paper maps blow away and get wet; the phone, kept inside a jacket, is the more reliable of the two.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Poe about ____
- A. which kind of map is more reliable on a walk.Correct
- B. whether walkers should carry a map at all.
- C. whether phones work in the cold.
- D. whether it rains on hills.
Answer: A. which kind of map is more reliable on a walk.
Paper versus phone.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether walkers should carry a map at all.
- Both want a map carried.
- C. whether phones work in the cold.
- Text 2 concedes the cold and offers a fix.
- D. whether it rains on hills.
- Not disputed.
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