Craft and StructureEasyAgreement on a general claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
People give more to charity when they can see whom the money helps, argues fundraiser Gil Adair, from his campaign results.
Text 2
In an experiment, donors shown a photograph of one child helped by a programme gave more, on average, than donors shown statistics about thousands of children.
Based on the texts, Adair and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?
- A. Donors respond more to a visible individual than to abstract numbers.Correct
- B. Statistics should never be used in appeals.
- C. Children are the only worthy cause.
- D. Donors give the same regardless of presentation.
Answer: A. Donors respond more to a visible individual than to abstract numbers.
Campaigns and experiment agree.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Statistics should never be used in appeals.
- Not proposed.
- C. Children are the only worthy cause.
- Not claimed.
- D. Donors give the same regardless of presentation.
- Contradicted by both.
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