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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The village pond has dried up because of the new houses' water use, argues resident Nia Roth. Text 2 The houses are on mains water piped from thirty miles away and draw nothing from the ground here. The pond dried the year the ditch that fed it was piped underground by the highways department.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Roth about ____

  1. A. why the pond dried up.Correct
  2. B. whether the pond has dried up.
  3. C. whether new houses were built.
  4. D. whether the pond was fed by a ditch.

Answer: A. why the pond dried up.

Mains water, not groundwater; a piped ditch.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. whether the pond has dried up.
Both accept it.
C. whether new houses were built.
Not disputed.
D. whether the pond was fed by a ditch.
Roth doesn't mention the ditch.

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