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Craft and StructureEasy–MediumAgreement on a general claim

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Gardens with hedges hold more birds than gardens with fences, argues birdwatcher Dot Lane, from thirty years of counting. Text 2 A survey of 500 gardens found that those bordered by hedges recorded, on average, twice as many nesting birds as those bordered by fences.

Based on the texts, Lane and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree on which point?

  1. A. Hedges support more birds than fences do.Correct
  2. B. Fences should be banned.
  3. C. Birds nest only in hedges.
  4. D. Five hundred gardens is too few.

Answer: A. Hedges support more birds than fences do.

Counting and survey agree.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Fences should be banned.
Not proposed.
C. Birds nest only in hedges.
'Twice as many', not all.
D. Five hundred gardens is too few.
Not suggested.

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