Craft and StructureMediumDisagreement about what evidence shows
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The town's air has improved, argues councillor Vic Rowe, because the roadside monitor's readings have fallen by a quarter since 2022.
Text 2
The monitor was moved in 2022 from the junction to a side street fifty metres away. Readings at the old site, taken by a university team, are unchanged.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that Rowe ____
- A. has attributed to cleaner air a fall that came from moving the monitor.Correct
- B. is wrong that the readings fell.
- C. should move the monitor back.
- D. has misread the university's data.
Answer: A. has attributed to cleaner air a fall that came from moving the monitor.
Moved fifty metres; the old site unchanged.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. is wrong that the readings fell.
- Text 2 accepts the fall in readings.
- C. should move the monitor back.
- Not proposed.
- D. has misread the university's data.
- Rowe doesn't cite it.
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