Craft and StructureMediumDisagreement about an explanation
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town's rooks have moved from the churchyard elms to the park because the church bells disturb them, argues sexton Wil Grey.
Text 2
The bells have rung every Sunday since 1700. The elms, on the other hand, died of disease in 2019 and were felled in 2020, the year the rooks moved.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that Grey ____
- A. has overlooked the loss of the trees as the reason the rooks moved.Correct
- B. is wrong that the rooks have moved.
- C. should stop the bells.
- D. has misdated the felling of the elms.
Answer: A. has overlooked the loss of the trees as the reason the rooks moved.
Bells for centuries; elms gone the year they moved.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. is wrong that the rooks have moved.
- Both accept the move.
- C. should stop the bells.
- Not proposed.
- D. has misdated the felling of the elms.
- Text 2 supplies the date; Grey gives none.
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