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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Timber-framed towers are the future of low-carbon construction: wood stores carbon, and new engineered timber is as strong as concrete for buildings of twenty storeys. Text 2 Engineered timber stores carbon only while the building stands. Unless the wood is reused or the forests it came from are replanted, demolition returns the carbon to the air within decades.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?

  1. A. Text 2 qualifies Text 1's claim by identifying conditions under which timber's carbon benefit would be lost.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 argues that timber is weaker than concrete.
  3. C. Text 2 denies that wood stores carbon.
  4. D. Text 2 recommends concrete instead.

Answer: A. Text 2 qualifies Text 1's claim by identifying conditions under which timber's carbon benefit would be lost.

Stores carbon, yes, but only under conditions.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 argues that timber is weaker than concrete.
Strength is not disputed.
C. Text 2 denies that wood stores carbon.
Text 2 accepts that wood stores carbon while standing.
D. Text 2 recommends concrete instead.
No recommendation of concrete.

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