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Craft and StructureMediumDisagreement about what evidence shows

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The fall in hedgehog sightings shows the animal is disappearing from the parish, argues resident Uma Ley. Text 2 Sightings have fallen because the parish's two remaining street lamps were switched off in 2022, and nobody now sees the hedgehogs crossing the road at night. The one survey done with tracking tunnels found them in as many gardens as in 2015.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that Ley ____

  1. A. has mistaken a fall in visibility for a fall in numbers.Correct
  2. B. is wrong that sightings have fallen.
  3. C. should count hedgehogs by day.
  4. D. has misdated the survey.

Answer: A. has mistaken a fall in visibility for a fall in numbers.

Lamps off, so unseen; tunnels find them as before.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. is wrong that sightings have fallen.
Text 2 accepts the fall in sightings.
C. should count hedgehogs by day.
Not proposed.
D. has misdated the survey.
Ley cites no survey.

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