Craft and StructureMediumDisagreement about a cause
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The brook's trout have returned because the water company stopped the sewage overflow, argues angler Pip Rowe.
Text 2
The overflow stopped in 2018 and the trout did not return for four years. They came back in 2022, the summer after the weir downstream was removed and the fish could reach the brook from the river for the first time in a century.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely disagree with Rowe about ____
- A. the reason the trout returned.Correct
- B. whether the trout have returned.
- C. whether the overflow stopped.
- D. whether the brook joins the river.
Answer: A. the reason the trout returned.
Four years' gap; the weir removed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. whether the trout have returned.
- Both accept the return.
- C. whether the overflow stopped.
- Not disputed.
- D. whether the brook joins the river.
- Not disputed.
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