Craft and StructureHardOne text qualifying another's proposal
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The village should buy the shop when the owner retires, argues resident Dai Prosser, since a community shop would keep the service going.
Text 2
Prosser's aim is right, and a community shop can work. But the ones that last have a paid manager and a rota of at least forty volunteers, and the last two village schemes in the county folded within three years for want of both. Buy the shop, by all means; but count the volunteers first.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
- A. Text 2 supports Text 1's goal while warning that the plan needs a level of commitment that has sunk similar schemes.Correct
- B. Text 2 argues that the shop should close.
- C. Text 2 denies that community shops can work.
- D. Text 2 proposes that the county buy the shop.
Answer: A. Text 2 supports Text 1's goal while warning that the plan needs a level of commitment that has sunk similar schemes.
'Buy the shop, by all means; but count the volunteers first.'
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 argues that the shop should close.
- The reverse.
- C. Text 2 denies that community shops can work.
- 'A community shop can work.'
- D. Text 2 proposes that the county buy the shop.
- Not proposed.
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