Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Sato's assessment?

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Text 1
The traveller's account of the mountain pass is our best description of it in 1780, argues historian Mai Sato, since he crossed it himself and wrote the same week.

Text 2
He crossed it, and wrote promptly. But he crossed it in a blizzard, at night, with a guide he could not understand, and his account of the pass's width and its bridges matches, almost word for word, a guidebook printed in 1760. What he wrote the same week was not what he had seen but what he had read.

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A. By accepting that the traveller crossed and wrote promptly while arguing that his account came from an earlier book rather than from his own observation.. 'He crossed it, and wrote promptly. But' — blizzard, night, and a 1760 guidebook.

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B. By denying that the traveller crossed the pass. — Text 2 accepts the crossing.

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C. By arguing that the account was written years later. — Text 2 accepts 'the same week'.

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D. By claiming the 1760 guidebook was copied from the traveller. — The guidebook came first.

Craft and Structure practice question

Answer: A. By accepting that the traveller crossed and wrote promptly while arguing that his account came from an earlier book rather than from his own observation.

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