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Craft and StructureMediumDisagreement about an inference

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The rise in the number of allotment applications shows that people want to grow their own food, argues councillor Bo Reid. Text 2 Applications rose the year the council cut the rent to a pound and let plot-holders keep a shed. Half the new applicants have not planted anything. They wanted a cheap shed and a place to sit, and the council gave them one.

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

  1. A. has read a response to cheap rent and sheds as evidence of a desire to grow food.Correct
  2. B. is wrong that applications rose.
  3. C. should raise the rent.
  4. D. has miscounted the applicants.

Answer: A. has read a response to cheap rent and sheds as evidence of a desire to grow food.

A pound and a shed; half unplanted.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. is wrong that applications rose.
Text 2 accepts the rise.
C. should raise the rent.
Not proposed.
D. has miscounted the applicants.
The count is not disputed.

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