Craft and StructureHardOne text qualifying another's claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town's new library has increased reading, argues councillor Ray Amin, since it lends twice as many books as the old one.
Text 2
It lends twice as many, and it is twice the size, with double the stock and longer hours. Lending per visitor is unchanged. The new building has drawn more people; whether each of them reads more, the figures cannot say.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
- A. Text 2 accepts the rise in lending but argues that it reflects more visitors rather than more reading per person.Correct
- B. Text 2 denies that lending has doubled.
- C. Text 2 argues that the old library was better.
- D. Text 2 reports stronger evidence for Amin's claim.
Answer: A. Text 2 accepts the rise in lending but argues that it reflects more visitors rather than more reading per person.
Twice the lending, twice the visitors, same per head.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 denies that lending has doubled.
- Text 2 accepts it.
- C. Text 2 argues that the old library was better.
- Not argued.
- D. Text 2 reports stronger evidence for Amin's claim.
- Text 2 weakens it.
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